Dundee Rep Four stars 'Give them a peachy juice burst' the legend declaims from a speech bubble attached to the face of a fresh-faced infant on the giant billboard that acts as a stage curtain for the interval of Jemima Levick's festive production of Roald Dahl's five a day-based classic. David Wood frames his stage version around the sort of New York walking tour normally the preserve of A-list movie stars. Here, we find young James Henry Trotter exercising his possibly lysergically influenced gardening skills from the inside of a beat-up caravan on a slice of Central Park that resembles a revolving traffic island. Accompanied by a posse of human-sized insects, James embarks on a fantastic voyage that sees the unidentified fruity object that freed him from a pair of wicked aunties move across land, sea and air before coming home to roost in the big apple itself. With the ever expanding peach represented in Jean Chan's surrealist-influenced design work by a series o
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