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
Children on Their Birthdays (short story) Birthdays" was made into an American independent film by director Mark Medoff. Children on Their Birthdays (short story) "Children on Their Birthdays" is a short story by Truman Capote, published serially in the late 1940s and appearing in "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" in 1949; it is noted as one of his better quality early short stories. Capote wrote "Children on Their Birthdays" in the Summer of 1948 while traveling in Europe, from London to Paris, and on to Venice, where he worked alongside Donald Windham. The story is set in rural Alabama where a precocious 10-year-old girl,