A letter from the Gingerbread Man

Press, 16 August 1988, Page 26

A letter from the Gingerbread Man

Hello, girls and boys!

I am having such an exciting time! You see, the people who made me have put me on the shelf of their kitchen dresser, and I have made friends with the other folk who live there.

Let us see, there is Mr Salt and Miss Pepper — oh, you would probably think they were just salt-and-pepper pots, but that is because they keep very still when the Big Ones are looking. In the cuckoo clock lives Herr Von Cuckoo — his job is telling the time, by shouting, “Cuckoo! Cuckoo!” every hour

Up on the top shelf, in the teapot, lives the Old Bag, who the others said was very grumpy! On my first night on the dresser, we had a problem — Herr Von Cuckoo lost his voice and could not go “Cuckoo!” Mr Salt and Miss Pepper said that if we couldn’t cure his voice, the Big Ones would throw him away in something nasty called The Dustbin! While we were trying to help him, along came a hungry mouse, who wanted to eat me. We had to do some thinking — fast!

I hope you will come to see us all at the Repertory Theatre during the August holidays. We will be there on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and in the evenings during both weeks (except Mondays). I am sure we’ll need your help to cure Herr Von Cuckoo and deal with Sleek the Mouse!

We will have plenty of music too, with singing and dancing, so it is going to be lots of fun for us all.

Oh — and please come and say hello to me after the show — I’m looking forward to meeting you. Your friend, Gingerbread Man.