We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen’s award-winning 1989 children’s picture book, comes to the stage in an adaptation by director Sally Cookson, with a score by Benji Bower. The show, suitable for children aged three and over, follows a family’s excitement as they wade, splash and squelch through a variety of imaginative environments in search of a bear. Designer Katie Sykes uses a host of everyday objects to draw young theatregoers into an imaginary world.

Author, poet and broadcaster Rosen has written over 140 books, many of them for children. He was appointed Children’s Laureate in 2007.

Cookson staged We’re Going On A Bear Hunt at Bristol Old Vic and has previously collaborated with Sykes and Bower on productions of The Ugly Duckling, Aesop’s Fables and Papa Please Get The Moon For Me.

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt plays daytime performances only at the Duchess theatre this summer holidays.