The Hobbit – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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WHAT has he got in his pocketses? Bilbo Baggins (Gamelihle Bovana) and Kira Timm (Gollum) in Alan Swerdlow’s production of The Hobbit at the National Children’s Theatre. Photograph by Rebecca Hearfield.

DO YOU REMEMBER building forts with the cushions from your parents’ lounge suites and wearing your bedspread as a cloak and a colander as a helmet as you shouted loud and feral words and regally waved a ruler in the air? Alan Swerdlow’s current production of The Hobbit touches all of these flashpoints of childhood play and nostalgia in bringing arguably one of the western world’s most well-loved children’s classics to succinct and witty professional theatre life. It’s on the boards at the National Children’s Theatre until Sunday 21 May.

One of the unequivocal thrills of live theatre is its ability to take a whole universe and present it in a tiny space and a small slice of time. American theatre maker did the unthinkable in gathering many of The Hobbit’s…

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