A CLASSIC TALE BROUGHT GLORIOUSLY TO FRUITION
Scottish Sunday Express
|December 28, 2025
PINOCCHIO ★★★★★ SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE TO JANUARY 4 shakespearesglobe.com
John Leader, left, as BFG
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Wrapped up snugly, cradling my hot chocolate in this spectacular recreation of the original Elizabethan open-air theatre, I didn't notice at first that most of the warmth was coming from deep inside watching this gorgeously enchanting adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1880s serialised stories of a magical animated marionette in rural small town Italy.
This story is from the December 28, 2025 edition of Scottish Sunday Express.
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