Awful Auntie

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I Frozen It was all a blur. At first there were only colours. Then lines. Slowly through the haze of Stella’s gaze the room eventually took shape. The little girl realised she was lying in her own bed. Her bedroom was just one of countless in this vast country house. To her right side stood her wardrobe, on her left sat a tiny dressing table, framed by a tall window. Stella knew her bedroom as well as she knew her own face. Saxby Hall had always been her home. But somehow, at this moment, everything seemed strange. Following our acclaimed productions of Gangsta Granny, Billionaire Boy and Demon Dentist, we’re proud to present our fabulous new production of David Walliams’ amazing adventure story, featuring a very large owl, a very small ghost and a very awful Auntie! Following their acclaimed productions of Gangsta Granny, Billionaire Boy and Demon Dentist, Birmingham Stage Company are proud to present a fabulous new production of David Walliams’ amazing adventure story, featuring a very large owl, a very small ghost and a very awful Auntie! The BSC’s live shows of my books are always brilliant - I can’t wait for the fun to begin again! It’s going to be a hoot!” David Walliams

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or light, and an old Rolls Royce they could barely afford to run. Through his considerable charm Chester, now Lord Saxby, just managed to keep the angry bank manager in London at bay. When Stella was born he was determined that his daughter would one day inherit this great house, as he had from his father. Of course his sister Alberta had shown she couldn’t be trusted with Saxby Hall, so Chester made sure his wishes were crystal clear in his will. The Will of Lord Saxby of Saxby Hall. I, Lord Chester Mandrake Saxby, do hereby leave the family home, Saxby Hall, to my daughter Stella Amber Saxby. In the event of Stella’s untimely passing, the house should be sold and all the money given to the poor. It is my express wish that my sister, Alberta Hettie Dorothea Pansy Colin Saxby, should not inherit the house, as she will only gamble it away playing tiddlywinks. To ensure this does not happen, the deeds of ownership to Saxby Hall have been concealed in the house, somewhere my sister Alberta will never ever find them. Signed the day of Monday 1st of January 1921 Lord Chester Mandrake Saxby

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Cut the brake cables on his bicycle. – Force-feed him a bowl of live worms saying it was ‘special spaghetti’. Douglas Mayo has had a life long love affair with musical theatre. He has authored several books on publicity and marketing for amateur theatre groups.Despite all this Chester was always kind to his sister. When Lord and Lady Saxby died and he eventually inherited Saxby Hall from his parents, he was determined to look after the old place as best he could. The new Lord Saxby loved the house as much as his parents always had. But because Chester was by nature such a generous man he gave the family’s huge treasure trove of silver and jewels to his sister Alberta. Altogether it was worth thousands and thousands of pounds. However, within a short while, the woman had lost it all. That’s because Alberta had a dangerous obsession. Tiddlywinks. It was a very popular game at the time. Tiddlywinks was played with a pot and different sized discs or ‘winks’. Knee-thumper’ – to make the tiddlywinks table shake when it’s your opponent’s turn by bashing it with your knee. ‘Snatcheroo’ – when your opponent’s wink is in mid flight and a highly trained bird of prey catches it in its bill. Following their acclaimed productions of Gangsta Granny, Billionaire Boy and Demon Dentist, Birmingham Stage Company are proud to present a fabulous new production of David Walliams’ amazing adventure story, featuring a very large owl, a very small ghost and a very Awful Auntie! infant day and night for weeks, but no trace of him was ever found. Alberta was twelve when her baby brother disappeared. Nothing in the house was ever the same again. It was not just that little Herbert was gone, it was the not knowing what had happened to him that hurt his parents the most. Of course they still had Chester (Stella’s father), but the pain of losing their beautiful baby boy never left them. The case became one of the great unsolved mysteries of the age.

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The aim was to use your large wink, named a ‘squidger’, to propel as many of the smaller winks into the pot as you could. From childhood, Alberta would force Chester to play with her. To stop her hurling the pot of winks across the room if she lost, Chester would always let her win. Alberta was not only a very bad loser, she was also a cheat. As a child she created her own tiddlywinks moves, all of them completely against the rules: ‘Whipple-scrump’ – to eat your opponent’s squidger. ‘Gnash-gnosh’ – to bite your opponent’s hand while they try to play.

disappearance froze the lord and lady in time. They were never seen in public again. Putting on their happy faces became impossible. The sense of loss, the not knowing; it was unbearable. The lord and lady could barely sleep or eat. They roamed around Saxby Hall like ghosts. In the end they were said to have died of broken hearts.