Director Emma Rice received a phone call from her mother about a wonderful book that she was reading to her nieces. She urged Rice to bring The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, by Michael Morpurgo (one of the Uk’s most beloved storytellers) to life on stage.
Read my review about how she and others brought this story to The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts –
http://thestagereview.net/2017/02/16/review-946-adolphus-tips-the-wallis/