Adapted for the stage by Andrew James
With music by Sarah de Jong
Directed by Margie McCrae
Set Design by Simon Greer Costume Design by Tobhiyah Feller Puppetry by Sue Wallace
with Patrick Trumper as Bill Barnacle Tristan McKinnon as Albert

This musical play for young people about friendship, persistence and the simple pleasures is an inventive mixture of song, verse, adventure and silliness. “Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle” with Albert, the cantankerous walking talking Magic Pudding, young koala Bunyip Bluegum and the Noble Society of Puddin’ Owners, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff, as they wander along the road, indulgin’ in conversation, songs and stories, and eatin’ at regular intervals from the Pudding.

In between slices these iconic characters spend their time defending Albert from being pudding-napped by a nasty pair of professional pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat.

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) is one of Australia’s most influential artists of the twentieth century. Lindsay began sketching and writing as a schoolboy, and is best known for his depiction of nudes, satyrs and sirens, which often caused controversy. During his life he created an extraordinary and celebrated body of work, of which THE MAGIC PUDDING, written and illustrated in 1918, is perhaps the most well-known.