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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nick Ahad

The House With Chicken Legs review – inventive folk tale is in fine feather

Eve De Leon Allen as Marinka in The House With Chicken Legs at Home, Manchester.
Bags of likability … Eve De Leon Allen as Marinka in The House With Chicken Legs at Home, Manchester. Photograph: Andrew AB Photography

Is the house going to grow chicken legs and run across the stage? It’s not the central dramatic question of this stage adaptation of Sophie Anderson’s highly garlanded YA novel, but it’s what most audiences will wonder.

Fortunately, there is much else to distract while that is pondered in a piece packed with fun, exuberant musical numbers, amusingly irreverent performances and inventive theatricality.

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