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Year 9/10 Drama are finishing the year's performances with
Children’s Theatre. First up will be Badjelly
the Witch, by Spike Milligan, the anarchic
English comedian who is credited with
being one of the influences that resulted in
the Monty Python phenomena.
Badjelly The Witch can turn children into
sausages or chop them up to make boy-girl soup. She can
turn policemen
into apple trees
or bananas into
mice and she is
the wickedest
witch in all the
world.
Searching for
Lucy, their cow,
Tim and Rose
become lost in
the great black
forest. There they meet Binklebonk the Tree Goblin, Mudwiggle the worm,
Silly Sausage the grasshopper and Dinglemouse. When they
are captured by Badjelly, it is Dinglemouse who saves them
by escaping and fetching his friend Jim the Giant Eagle. The
characters enchanted by Badjelly are rescued.
Badjelly will be played alternately by Brea Knott and Laura
Whittaker.
A Catholic School in the Salesian Tradition
