Pobby & Dingan
Ashley Smith as Kellyanne
Adapted from the novel by Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan is the story Ashmol, a young boy living in Lightning Ridge, the craziest place you ever saw.
Stuck in the outback of Australia the story begins when Kellyanne, Ashmol's sister, loses her imaginary friends Pobby and Dingan. Nothing can console her and as she falls ill Ashmol sets out to find them, a difficult thing to do when you don't even believe they exist.
His search turns into a fight to save Kellyanne and the whole of Lightning Ridge and with it Ashmol starts to wonder if maybe Pobby and Dingan do exist afterall.
Stuck in the outback of Australia the story begins when Kellyanne, Ashmol's sister, loses her imaginary friends Pobby and Dingan. Nothing can console her and as she falls ill Ashmol sets out to find them, a difficult thing to do when you don't even believe they exist.
His search turns into a fight to save Kellyanne and the whole of Lightning Ridge and with it Ashmol starts to wonder if maybe Pobby and Dingan do exist afterall.
Nominated for CATS award for Best Production for Children and Young People, Pobby & Dingan was commissioned and produced by Catherine Wheels in spring 2010. Directed by Gill Robertson with lighting by Lizzie Powell, designed by Karen Tennant and Music by David Paul Jones.
Winner of the TMA Award for Best Show for Children and Young People.
Winner of the TMA Award for Best Show for Children and Young People.
        Photos by Douglas McBride
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"a really moving meditation on the power of imagination to conjure what is not conventionally real, and to recreate what has gone." **** The Scotsman "Pobby and Dingan matures into a profoundly moving play, low on sentiment and high on good humour, that will leave you sobbing for the loss of more than just your invisible friends." Mark Fisher "there’s a gritty, uncompromising edge to Pobby and Dingan that refuses to sugar-coat the gut-wrenching moment when a 12-year-old Aussie boy leaves his childhood behind" **** The Herald "one of its most impressive feats was keeping the mostly youthful audience at the Traverse in spellbound silence throughout, as they were transported to Lightning Ridge and the potential of the power of imagination and hope." **** Edinburgh Spotlight |
