Noddy (character) scene and costume designs by Susie Calcutt. The original cast included Eric Potts as Big Ears and Karen Briffett as Noddy. The show was very well received among critics, audiences and even Enid Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock. David Wood adapted a successful sequel to the play entitled "Noddy and the Tootle" which opened at the Wimbledon Theatre and endured on a long UK National Tour in 1995–1996. Karen Briffett reprised her role as Noddy and Big Ears was played by Jonathan Broxholme. This production was too presented by Clarion Productions. The characters returned between September 2002 and January 2004 for
The Story of the Amulet of two drops of quicksilver (Mercury) merging from Nesbit’s "The Story of the Amulet" and described her work as the “pleasantest reading of my childhood”. The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes "Five Children and It" (1902) and "The Phoenix and the Carpet" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the "it" in "Five Children and It". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly