The play is based on Ben Rice’s acclaimed debut novel ‘Pobby and Dingan’ about how one boy's mission to save his family unites an outback opal-mining community. It is a funny and heartbreaking story about love, loyalty and the enduring power of hopes and dreams.

After a long wait for a licence to adapt the novel, we were finally able to create our own magical version of the story in 2012. The show toured for 10 weeks to schools, theatres and community venues from London to Plymouth and all points in between.

In 2016 we partnered with LibrariesWest to adapt the show specifically to perform in libraries. It toured to over 30 libraries in the South West throughout the autumn and in other parts of the country too.

About the show

Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne’s best friends, maybe her only friends. Her brother Ashmol hates them. They’re invisible and they make her act weird. And it’s no fun having a fruitloop for a sister.

Then Pobby and Dingan go missing and Kellyanne becomes sick with anxiety. It’s up to Ashmol to find them before she fades away completely, but where do you start looking for something you can’t even see? 

This enchanting play is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the importance of imagination.

For ages 9+