Winter is coming, the trees are bare, the birds fly south, and the sheep are flocking, seeking shelter from the wind.
As the falling snow flurries to the ground wolf footprints can be seen padded into the hard ground…

But standing on the hill top a boy is watching his sheep. He is bored, seeking adventure, and looking for the next best thing! A boy tasked to keep his community safe but with a vivid imagination. A boy who makes up stories and craves the thrill of the unknown.

A boy who, unthinkingly, unknowingly…cried WOLF

‘As an introduction to theatre it can’t be bettered. It’s beautifully paced, performed with a sincerity that doesn’t patronise’
– Yorkshire Post

‘tutti frutti Productions director Wendy Harris aided by Kenny’s take on the story, offers a magical world full of sheep, knitting and wolfish behaviour where the audience’s imagination can run riot….’
– The Northern Echo

Creative Team

Dominic Sales

Composer

Dom loves writing music, playing music, recording music and listening to music. He has written music for lots of different people, from Atomic Kitten to Opera North and the BBC to a feature film starring John Rhys-Davies. Dom is director/producer for the record label Jellymould Jazz and also plays the triangle.

Mike Kenny

Writer

Mike Kenny is one of England’s leading writers specialising in young people’s theatre. He was included in the Independent on Sunday’s list of Top Ten Living Playwrights and his plays are performed regularly throughout the UK and internationally. Mike won the 2015 Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Younger Audiences with Three Wise Monkeys.

TC Howard

TC Howard has worked as a performer, choreographer, movement director and educationalist throughout her career. TC has choreographed for theatre productions in Bolton Octagon, Manchester Royal Exchange, The Dukes Playhouse and with Red Ladder, Opera Circus and Horse and Bamboo. She also creates dance for site-specific and installations works in non-traditional venues.

Kelly Jago

Kelly Jago is a Bristol based freelance theatre designer and maker. She loves to design worlds that hold many secrets, slowly revealed as the story unfolds. Kelly has designed sets, costumes and props for a varied range of productions, particularly enjoying working on theatre for young audiences, new writing and devised theatre.

Wendy Harris

Artistic Director, Chair of PYA England

Wendy has held the position of artistic director at Tutti Frutti since 2005, touring nationally and internationally, co-producing the Little Feet Festival of Children’s Theatre, and leading on the development programmes and arts engagement work.

Touring Team

Sally Ann Staunton

Born and bred in Cumbria, Sally trained in Lancashire before performing in wonderful productions with Interplay Theatre in Spit Nolan, This Land, Precious Bane, Harold and Maude, and Tarzanne. She then jumped on an aeroplane to perform an array of children’s touring shows flying, to America, Canada and Alaska with Tall Stories in The Gruffalo’s Child.

Mathew Hamper

Mathew Hamper trained at East 15 Acting School. Theatre Includes: Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales (International and UK Tour), Peter Pan (Octagon Theatre Bolton), Swamp Juice (Edinburgh and Latitude Festival), Friend or Foe (UK Tour), Trolls (Theatre 503 and Tristan Bates Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Gordon Craig Theatre).

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