Anna Hibiscus

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If you like this series, you may also like Younguncle Comes to Town and Younguncle in the Himalayas. Also in the Crucible Theatre this summer is a new production of Miss Saigon which will mark the first regional non-replica production of Boublil and Schönberg’s hit musical retelling of Madame Butterfly set during the Vietnam war. Miss Saigon will be reimagined by Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Robert Hastie and Associate Artistic Director Anthony Lau as co-directors, with design by Ben Stones and lighting design by Jessica Hung Han Yun. Joanna Ampil, who has previously played Kim in the London, Sydney, UK touring and 10 th anniversary productions of Miss Saigon, is cast as The Engineer. Further casting and creative team to be announced. An extra week has been added to the run, now playing from Saturday 8 July 2023 – Saturday 19 August 2023.

Sheffield Theatres’ Summer Schooltakes place in August and offers expertise from theatre professionals for participants to try their hand at a number of creative skills. What a lovely story. The book showcases four different chapters with individual stories contained within about Anna Hibiscus, who is a young girl growing up in Africa with her large, loving family. Atinuke and Tobia evoke Africa beautifully. It is lovely to see representations of the diverse landscape that Africa offers. From the hustle of the city to the coolness of the Mango Tree- you almost feel like you could fall into Anna’s garden or stroll across the pavement. Anna Hibiscus has never been away from her home in Africa, surrounded by her parents and baby brothers, as well as all of her aunts and uncles and cousins. But now she is going to Canada to visit her grandmother for Christmas. She has never met Granny Canada and she can’t wait to see snow! Canada is very cold and it takes Anna a little while to get used to wearing lots of clothes and eating different types of food. She also has to get used to Granny’s dog, Qimmac. And though she misses her brothers and cousins, Anna soon makes lots of friends and has a wonderful time playing with them in the snow and celebrating Christmas with Granny Canada. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas:A new production by Sheffield Theatres, staged on the iconic Crucible stage and directed by Paul Foster( Talent, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun). This classic feel-good musical for all the family features the songs Blue Skies, Sistersand the festive favourite White Christmas.

Anna’s family is clearly one full of love and support, but they also have their challenges. Life is busy when you live with all your cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents. But this extended family provides wonderful support and entertainment for Anna and her immediate family.

The fourth book in the awesome Anna Hibiscus series about a young girl growing up in a city in Nigeria. Anna Hibiscus is so filled with happiness that she feels like she might float away. And the more she talks to her mother and father and grandfather and grandmother and aunties and cousins about it, the more her happiness grows! There's only one thing to do...Sing! This is the story of a young girl named Anna Hibiscus. Anna lives in amazing Africa. Ibadan, Nigeria to be exact.In the Crucible, a new production marking the 80 thanniversary of Bertolt Brecht’spopular play The Good Person of Szechwan,is commissioned by ETTand co-produced by Sheffield Theatres, ETTand Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. This new version by writer Nina Segalis directed by Sheffield TheatresAssociateArtisticDirector Anthony Lau( Anna Karenina). Saturday 11 March – Saturday 1 April 2023. All that, and funny & cute & delightfully illustrated, too. And concise, & accessible, I believe, to children as young as five or six (with a mentor) or eight (reading on their own). 4.5 stars... every child, whether or not they're Nigerian, should have this series available to them.

After spending two-and-a-half years living in Ethiopia and another year living in Ghana, all I can say is this book is terribly offensive. Supposedly the author was born in Nigeria, but then she should know that "Africa" is a continent, not a country. The main character, Anna Hibiscus, lives in "Africa." Because that's where her father was born. Her mother was born in Canada...a country. She should have said North America. In the first story Anna, her father, her mother, and Anna's two baby brothers go on a vacation away from the family, but discover that it's very difficult to take care of babies and cleaning all by yourself. The next day, all the aunties come to help. But that's not quite enough--and so all the big cousins come to help, and so on, and so forth, until the whole family is together again, and everyone is happy.

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Saturday 9 December 2023 – Saturday 13 January 2024 (Press performance: Thursday 14 December 2023 at 7pm).

Anna Hibiscus is a perfect early chapter book, combining humor, nuance and a wonderful sense of cross-cultural connections. As a school librarian and a parent, I know how hard it is to find books that engage children who are beyond "readers" and ready to move into chapter books. Anna Hibiscus is a charming and joyful little girl. Through her eyes we see her day to day life with her extended family. To round off the year we bring the festive classic White Christmas to the Crucible stage this December. Directed by Paul Foster, it’s a musical that will delight all ages. ”Utopia Theatre and Sheffield Theatres today announce the cast for their new production of Anna Hibiscus’ Song , the theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children’s book by Atinuke. Staged in the intimate and flexible Playhouse, the story of Anna Hibiscus is directed and adapted by Utopia Theatre Founder, CEO and Artistic Director Mojisola Kareem-Elufowoju. Althea Burey will play the roles of Narrator, Angel, Mama. Althea has multiple children’s productions stage credits to her name including The Smeds and the Smoos, The Gruffalo’s Child and Paw Patrol Live.