Book, music & lyrics
by David Wood

Since its first production at the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch in 1975, OLD MOTHER HUBBARD has been especially popular with amateur companies and drama students.

Using the old nursery rhyme as a starting point, David Wood has created an original storyline, incorporating pantomime elements and other nursery-rhyme characters, plus some unusual animals, including Humperdink – a camel!

It is Christmas Eve, and a lonely dog arrives at Mother Hubbard’s Home for Lost Children; but alas, her cupboard is bare. Worse still, she is turned out by the bailiff and the rent collector, together with her brood of nursery-rhyme children. They make their way to a forest, where they encounter a magician, the Great Boon, on his way to a circus. By a fortunate mistake, the magician casts a spell which enlarges the bailiff’s boot to a size which makes it big enough for Mother Hubbard to take temporary residence in it. But her troubles are far from over, and they all undergo many adventures – not least with a sinister Cat, before all turns out well, and they are able to take part in a Grand Circus.