My Mother Told Me Not To Stare
A deliciously dark operetta for curious children and their grown ups
Once upon a time in a town called Upper Crumble, children started to go missing…
Told in operatic, gothic style, My Mother Told Me Not to Stare is the story of a young boy called Bobby Rogers, who notices that a child who was there one minute is gone the next.
Disappeared.
In Bobby’s town, everybody lives very ordinary lives.
Babies are delivered to their new parents by stork,
and made to live, until useful of course, in drawers.
Children who are naughty and break the rules of the town,
will be sent far away, never to return!
Join Bobby on an extraordinary musical adventure in which he finds strength in friendship to confront the horror of the Fixing Kitchen.
“Stretches the boundaries of children’s theatre in a darkly entertaining, absurd tour-de-force”
Public Reviews on My Mother Told Me Not to Stare, 2010
Touring nationally 2010 & 2011 for everyone aged 8 years and above
“Finegan Kruckemeyer’s splendidly quirky play… is worthy of its international acclaim” Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, Sunday Herald
Based on an original story idea by Australian artists Finegan Kruckemeyer, Daisy Brown, Ian Moorhead, and Mario Spate.
