Tarek is delighted that this Christmas he will be joining the cast of Extra Yarn at the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, where he will be working with composer Tom Deering and director Imogen Bond to lead the music in performance and tell this beautiful story based on the book by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen.
On a cold, dark day in a dull, grey town, Annabelle discovers a box of brightly coloured yarn. She knits a cosy jumper to keep herself warm and finds, to her surprise, that she still has extra yarn. So she decides to knit her dog Mars a jumper too but she STILL has extra yarn!
Annabelle knits and knits and, soon, she’s blanketed the entire town in a rainbow of colour. Her fame spreads far and wide. It doesn’t take long for the evil Archduke to set his beady eyes upon Annabelle’s magical box of yarn but, little does he know, you have to have a bit of magic inside your heart for it to work…