Things to Do in York & North Yorkshire

Let Crash Bang Wallop Youth Theatre take you on a magical mystery tour of the vibrant and fantastical world of Dr.Seuss! The Cat in the Hat will introduce you to the colourful inhabitants of the Jungle of Nool; Gertrude McFuzz, a plain little bird with an inferiority complex; Amayzing Mayzie La Bird, who could not be more different; a boy called Jojo, who’s “Thinks take him to places no one has been”, and Horton the Elephant, kind, gentle and loyal to the end. On the face of it, ‘Seussical’ is a story about how Horton the Elephant discovers a race of tiny people called the Who, living on a speck of dust, invisible to everyone but himself, and the trials he goes through to save them. However, scratch the surface and there are some profound, universal themes here – the friendship between Horton and Jojo; both of whom are ‘different’ and feel that they are “alone in the universe”, until they find each other. And there is Gertrude who longs to be like the other gl...