Witch, jungle child, bewildered stu­dent, detect­ive, lib­rar­i­an, shark: icon­ic writer Mar­garet Mahy defied the norm at every turn, embody­ing aspects of her char­ac­ters in the many lives she lived. Jane Waddell’s stage adapt­a­tion of Mahy’s essay ‘Notes of a Bag Lady‘ reveals the woman behind the stor­ies: her witchy ways, her bag-lady tend­en­cies and her nev­er-end­ing search for adven­ture.

Dir­ec­ted by Stella Reid, pro­duced by Claire O’Loughlin, designed by Lucas Neal, Mar­cus McShane and Soph­ie Sar­gent, I am not Mar­garet Mahy is a remind­er to us all that you can grow old, but you don’t need to grow up.

 

Please note: I Am Not Mar­garet Mahy is appro­pri­ate for adults and young adults, but is not a children’s show.