Hundred Feet Tall
07–17 Apr 2025
What you need to know
Running Time
Approximately 30 minutes, without an intervalSuitable for ages
4–7 years oldTickets
Tickets are free and must be booked through each library. More information on booking below
Dates
07–17 Apr 2025About the show
‘Thanks for the love that you’ve shown me
Right now I’m so very small
But with love and with light
I will keep gaining height
And then one day I’ll stand at a hundred feet tall.’
Hundred Feet Tall is a new 30-minute musical play designed for 4–7-year-olds exploring how you’re never too small to make a big difference.
When Seedar-the-Seed falls on Bekko Bunny’s head, the two form an unlikely friendship, and together navigate the downs and ups of growing up.
Book by Melis Aker and music and lyrics by Benjamin Scheuer. Adapted from the children’s book Hundred Feet Tall (Simon & Schuster) written by Benjamin Scheuer and illustrated by Jemima Williams.
The show will tour for two weeks over the Easter holidays to London libraries.
An Old Vic Production
Generously supported by The Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and The N Smith Charitable Settlement
We are grateful to Thompson & Morgan for their generous donation of seeds in support of this production
Illustration: Jemima Williams
Info & Booking
You can book tickets online or by phone using the information below. Please note, tickets cannot be booked through The Old Vic box office.
Swiss Cottage Central Library
88 Avenue Road, London, NW3 3HA
Mon 07 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 7974 4444
Tickets by email: libraries@camden.gov.uk
Una Marson Library
62 Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2GB
Tue 08 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 7525 0287
Tate Library
63 Streatham High Road, London, SW16 1PN
Wed 09 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 7926 6768
Online booking for 11am performance:
Online booking for 1.30pm performance:
Beckton Globe Library
1 Kingsford Way, London, E6 5JQ
Thu 10 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 3373 0853
Hackney Central Library
1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ
Fri 11 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 8356 2513
Idea Store Whitechapel
321 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BU
Mon 14 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by email: ideastore@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Pimlico Library
Lupus Street, Pimlico, London, SW1V 3AT
Wed 16 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 1.30pm
Tickets by phone: 020 76412984
Islington North Library
Manor Gardens, London, N7 6JX
Thu 17 Apr
Performance times: 11am and 2pm
Tickets by phone: 020 7527 6963
Helen Chong
Helen Chong
Theatre includes: Cassie and the Lights (Southwark Playhouse/59E59 Theaters, New York); Little Women (York Theatre Royal); Girlhood (Theatre503/Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Beauty and the Beast, Nosh Vouchers, Cinderella (Gala Theatre, Durham); Last Shot (Live Theatre, Newcastle); Jack and the Beanstalk (Applecart Arts); Orca (Laurels, Whitley Bay). Television includes: The Dumping Ground, Casualty. Training includes: Guildford School of Acting.
Joshua Price
Joshua Price
Theatre includes: Schwartz at 75 (West End); Jack and the Beanstalk (Corby Cube). Other work includes: Jack and the Beanstalk (P&O Cruises); The Devil’s Advocate workshop, Bird Brigade workshop (Guildford School of Acting). Training includes: Guildford School of Acting.
Ashley Sean-Cook
Ashley Sean-Cook
Theatre includes: The Gruffalo (West End); The Goal (The Courtyard, Hereford); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (UK tour); Might Never Happen (King’s Head Theatre). Television includes: Trigger Point.
Maggie Service
Maggie Service
Theatre includes: A Flea in Her Ear (The Old Vic); Well, Girl with a Pearl Earring (West End); The Witches, Rules for Living, Table, Collaborators, Earthquakes in London, London Assurance (National Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Young Vic); Annie Get Your Gun (Sheffield Theatres); The Country Wife (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Way of the World (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Mr A’s Amazing Maze Plays, The Firebird (SJT, Scarborough); Maggie Service with a Smile (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh). Television includes: Good Omens, Quiz, Man Down, W1A, Three Girls, Red Dwarf, Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Miranda, Foyle’s War. Film includes: London Road.
Felicity Sparks
Felicity Sparks
Theatre includes: Golem, The Animals and Children took to the streets (UK & International tour); The Littlest Yak (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury); A Christmas Carol (Eastern Angles, Ipswich); A Christmas Carol (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Cinderella (Octagon, Bolton); The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Bolton Food and Drink Festival); Animal Rocks (Oxford tour); Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough). Television includes: Golem. Film includes: On Hungry Hill. Other work includes: Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Ed Tunningley
Ed Tunningley
Theatre includes: The Choir of Man (West End/US tour/Adelaide Fringe, Australia); Beauty and the Beast (Greenwich Theatre); As You Like It, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour); Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall). Training includes: Guildford School of Acting.
Benjamin Scheuer
Benjamin Scheuer
Theatre includes: A Mountain for Elodie (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh); The Lion — Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Off-West End Award for Best New Musical (Lynn Redgrave Theater, New York/The Other Palace); The Dung Beetle’s Deli (Little Angel Theatre). Film includes: Empty Stage. Other work includes: Songs from the Lion, Water from Dust. Other writing includes: Hibernate with Me, Hundred Feet Tall. Benjamin is also the recipient of the Kleban Prize for Lyrics.
Melis Aker
Melis Aker
Theatre includes: Murmurs (Theatre503); The Dung Beetle’s Deli (Little Angel Theatre); Fish (Signature Theatre, New York); Indigo Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival, US); Field, Awakening (Finborough); AZUL: A Bilingual Musical (The Public, New York); Hound Dog (Arts Nova, New York); Love in Afghanistan (Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.); We Live in Cairo (New World Stages, New York). Television includes: The Equalizer, The Blacklist: Redemption, Seneca. Film includes: Baba in Graceland, Ari. Other work includes: Scraps and Things, Fractio Panis.
Katy Rudd
Oscar Toeman
Oscar Toeman
Theatre as Director includes: Farewell Mister Haffmann (Park Theatre); The Misfortune of the English, The Sugar Syndrome (Orange Tree); Actually (Trafalgar Studios); After October, Laburnum Grove (Finborough). Theatre as Associate & Staff Director includes: The Constituent (The Old Vic); Oslo (National Theatre/West End); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe/West End); Waste (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre Royal Bath). Oscar is Baylis Director at The Old Vic 2024–25.
Sam Wyer
Saffeya Shebli
Saffeya Shebli
Theatre as Casting Associate/Coordinator: The Brightening Air, Oedipus, A Christmas Carol, The Constituent, Groundhog Day, Just For One Day, Machinal, Pygmalion, The Real Thing, Sylvia (The Old Vic). Film as Casting Director includes: Scene House. Film as Casting Associate includes: After the Hunt.
George Alexander
George Alexander
Theatre includes: Divine Proportions (The Vaults); Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (East London Shakespeare Festival). Television includes: The Masked Singer, Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.