PETE the Sheep appears live on stage at Manning Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, October 15 at 11am and 6pm
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In March, acclaimed children's theatre company, Monkey Baa, premiered its new production of "Pete The Sheep", based on the hilarious, quintessentially Australian picture book by 2014 Australian Children's Laureate Jackie French and illustrator Bruce Whatley.
The production, directed by Jonathan Biggins with music composed by Phillip Scott, explores the challenges and rewards of being an individual, and is a lasting tribute to honouring your own spirit and strength, whilst working with the flock!
Since March the cast and crew have been on the road taking this wonderful play all around the country and now it's Taree's turn!
In "Pete The Sheep" we meet Shaun, the new sheep shearer in 'Shaggy Gully' and a sheep dog with a difference, in that he is - err ... a sheep. Since shearing is such hard work, all the other shearers have sheep dogs to help them, but not Shaun.
He has Pete, a sheep-sheep.
This just doesn't sit right with the regular shearers at the shed, things are done a certain way you see - and we can't go having things out of the ordinary, and Pete is definitely out of the ordinary.
As a wonderful bonus, the Taree library today hosted a very special event featuring the cast members reading the book.