Michael Bond’s well-mannered, sticky-pawed bear has seldom been so busy. A new film, Paddington in Peru, is released this autumn and a stage musical is due next year. But first, here is a merry interactive experience in which a handful of actors lead audiences through a series of games to prepare for a Marmalade Day jamboree at 32 Windsor Gardens.
Please look after this bear, Paddington fans may well think to themselves as they start in a gift shop styled as Mr Gruber’s antiques emporium, where endless ursine merchandise lines the shelves amid the bric-a-brac. Then we follow marmalade splodges and paw prints on to a train carriage that transports us, with a nifty video design, past London locations (Bond Street is a nice touch) as Lord Kitchener’s calypso songs add to the celebratory tone.
