The piece is themed by the four seasons and the ensemble collectively work to ensure the audience remain engaged, by ensuring the energy levels are pitched perfectly. We are drawn to Mr Thomas’ newspaper headlines about a silver stealing burglar and anticipate trouble. Mog famously saves the day by alerting the family to the intruder and receives a medal of honour, which enchants the young audience. Birthday Wondering what to do for your son or daughter’s 17th birthday party? From themed decorations, tableware and accessories to balloons, invitations and personalised banners, we have all the ideas and inspiration you need to give them the celebration they deserve! Half-sung all the way through, it’s full of good-natured, eccentric cheer, with Georgina Goodchild lovably dopey as the beleaguered feline. Clearly the decision has been taken to not have her costume look slavishly similar to Kerr’s illustrations, but she captures her clumsy, toddler-like brio perfectly. The rest of the cast multitask furiously and amusingly - the most virtuosic scene is at the vets, and sees three actors play both pets and their owners simultaneously. It’s all very gentle, but leans subtly into Kerr’s unsentimental worldview, where Mog is genuinely a bit irritating – here Mr Thomas very possibly mimes an expletive at the audience when Mog wees in his chair. Your child can tell the story to you using the pictures as prompts. You may find they use the same language as the story, or they may tell it using their own words. Watch the story read aloud

Mog is just relaxing at home when suddenly all hell breaks loose. Being a cat, she cannot just jump up and ask, “hey buddy what’s going on?”. However, instead she conducts her own investigation, and son the house fills up with people with objects hidden inside a paper wrapped in ribbon, people dancing around and drinking and soon a big fire tree is brought in a placed in the middle of the living room. Mog is a very forgetful cat. She forgets that she has a cat flap, she forgets that she’s already eaten her supper, and she forgets that cats don’t have eggs for breakfast every day. Bother that cat! Birthday Wondering what to do for your son or daughter’s 18th birthday party? From themed decorations, tableware and accessories to balloons, invitations and personalised banners, we have all the ideas and inspiration you need to give them the celebration they deserve!While the late Judith Kerr will be forever best known for her mildly unsettling picture-book classic ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’, she also spread joy to generations of kids with another, more-lovable feline: Mog. The accident-prone tabby debuted in 1970’s ‘Mog the Forgetful Cat’, and enjoyed three decades of gentle adventures with the Thomas family before poignantly meeting her end in 2002’s ‘Goodbye, Mog’. The author based her illustrations of the house in which Mog the Cat family reside in her own family home in Barnes, and the two children in this series were named after the middle names of her daughter and son, Tacy and Matthew. Additionally, the family name Thomas is her husband’s first name upon which the appearance of Mr. Thomas was based. In 2015, Mog the Cat returned as a CGI character for an advertisement for supermarket Sainsbury. In Mog’s Christmas Calamity, Mog by a chance starts a fire after experiencing a nightmare, but she can alert the fire department –after she calls 999 while scrabbling across the phone. Subsequently, she is hailed as a hero for saving her owner is later given an egg as a treat. In the advert, Kerr appears as a neighbor of Thomas’.

There is an unavoidably episodic narrative but the stories are interspersed with lyrical observations on the changing seasons and the show gives a vivid sense not just of Mog’s dreamworld but the others’ too: Debbie’s nightmare of a tiger is echoed by a vet’s restless night, haunted by visions of poorly pandas and crocodiles. Join Mog and the Thomas family, on a journey through one year in the life of a really remarkable cat, as she catches a burglar, gatecrashes a cat show, goes to the V.E.T. and gets to eat lots and lots of eggs. Everyone’s favourite cat might be forgetful, but she certainly has a lot of adventures, and she loves her family very much. Birthday Wondering what to do for your son or daughter’s 50th birthday party? From themed decorations, tableware and accessories to balloons, invitations and personalised banners, we have all the ideas and inspiration you need to give them the celebration they deserve!Birthdays Wondering what to do for your son or daughter’s100th birthday party? From themed decorations, tableware and accessories to balloons, invitations and personalised banners, we have all the ideas and inspiration you need to give them the celebration they deserve!

Original songs have been especially created for the show, particularly catchy is ‘Bother that Cat’; an important catchphrase of the show. An exciting trip to the V.E.T (shhh don’t say it aloud!) occurs, where the witty concept of owners evolving to look like their pets works well for the adults in the audience. Choreography in the form of a cat chase and a cat show group dance is visually pleasant. Judith Kerr’s series of Mog books have long been a staple of children’s bookshelves, delighting families of feline fans for over fifty years . Although cats don’t typically roam far from home, Mog is having quite the adventure as she tours across the UK. Adapted by The Wardrobe Ensemble (in a co-production with The Old Vic & Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Mog the Forgetful Cat is currently playing at The Old Vic, ahead of a summer stint at the Edinburgh Fringe.Age 3-5 years Mog is a loveable family pet. Mum and Dad sometimes find she can be a bit of a nuisance though, particularly when it comes to remembering she has a cat flap. One day Mog gets into all sorts of trouble. She ends up alone in the garden at night feeling very sorry for herself. But when she unwittingly disturbs a burglar, suddenly she becomes a hero, and everyone is praising her instead of grumbling about her. Now a picture book classic, first published over forty years ago, this is a warm, humorous and enjoyable story about a very appealing if rather hapless cat who saves the day. Share the story Read aloud