We are grateful to the Children’s Touring Partnership for taking our Voyages of Discovery display with them on the tour. The display comes in two parts, one introducing Arthur Ransome’s life, the other Swallows and Amazons. Please do look out for it, if you are going to any of the tour venues, and we hope it enhances your enjoyment of the play itself.

After Chichester the tour resumes in Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 31 January. The full schedule and booking information is available at the tour website.

Meanwhile, you can catch up with an excellent round up of Vaudeville reviews at Stewart Wright (Roger’s) blog. Stewart is currently reprising the role that he made his own during the orignal Bristol Old Vic production.

Many thanks to the staff at Charity Choice for resolving this matter!

Please accept our apologies for any incovenience caused.

If so, you may find these audience interviews both interesting and informative.

Meanwhile Stagetext advise that tickets for the captioned performance on January 12 are selling fast.

The show also found approval with the Evening Standard and Official London Theatre, as well as farther field, where the Chicago Tribune looks ahead to say: “Following a four-month U.K. tour, its hugely appealing good humor and heart deserve a return engagement at the very least.”

The Standard comments that Tom Morris, the director, has “struck gold again with this inventive and enjoyable adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s classic Swallows and Amazons”, whilst Official London Theatre rightly comment that his “production challenges the audience’s creativity at every turn”.

The Musical runs at the Vaudeville until January 14, then begins a four month UK tour.

The theatre book is available to buy from the publisher, Nick Hern Books’s website, and should also be in stock or available to order from all good bookshops soon. ISBN: 9781848422377, Price: £9.99.

You can see a larger version of the cover at the illustrator, Quinton Winters’ website.

You can keep up to date with all developments at the Musical’s facebook page, via their twitter accounts (where you can choose to be a Swallow or an Amazon), or via their dedicated website. We will also endeavour to post important developments here, on the Trust’s website.

Further to our previous news item, the Voyages of Discovery display will not be available at the Vaudeville, from 20 December – 14 January. The reason is that the theatre has insufficient space “front of house”, and needs to keep what it has clear at such a busy time of the year. In addition to the Swallows and Amazons Musical, the theatre is also presenting Potted Panto over the holiday period.

We are sorry to disappoint anybody who was hoping to see the display whilst the Musical is in London. We still expect that it will be available at the UK Tour venues from January onwards, hosted by the Children’s Touring Partnership and the participating theatres.

You can read a review in today’s Daily Telegraph.

For those who can’t wait, the Evening Standard recently published an article reviewing the production, including interviews with lyricist, Neil Hannon and the director, Tom Morris.

You can keep up to date with all developments at the Musical’s facebook page, via their twitter accounts (where you can choose to be a Swallow or an Amazon), or via their dedicated website. We will also endeavour to post important developments here, on the Trust’s website.