Marinka dreams of a normal life, where she can stay somewhere long enough to make friends; but there’s one problem – her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.
Based on the best-selling novel by Sophie Anderson, Marinka and her unusual house are brought to life with live music, puppetry and our quintessential Les Enfants Terribles flavour. The co-production with HOME premiered in Manchester in 2022, receiving critical acclaim including an Offies OffComm Award for excellence in theatre outside of London.
"packed with fun, exuberant musical numbers"
"truly transporting"
"a show that has legs and deserves to run"
"visually and emotionally impressive"
"a great show, one for the whole family to enjoy"
"delicate, intricate storytelling"
"a dazzling show that you never wanted to end!"
"everything was thrown at this production and it all landed perfectly"
Eve graduated from the Actor Musician BA (Hons) course at Rose Bruford drama school in 2021.
Theatre credits include: Sugarcoat (Southwark Playhouse), Cinderella (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Blood Harmony (UK Tour), The House With Chicken Legs (HOME Manchester), The Snow Child (Greenwich Theatre), Indecent Proposal (Southwark Playhouse).
TV credits include: Doctor Who (BBC)
Theatre includes: Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse/Ramps on The Moon) Not About Heroes (West End and National Tour), Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal) Othello, The Seagull & Ward 6 (Royal Exchange Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Derby Theatre & Bolton Octagon), The Arabian Nights (The Watermill Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep), The Night Queen (Hoopla/Belgrade Theatre), Tom’s Midnight Garden, The Island, &The Little Mermaid (Nottingham Playhouse), The Haunted Man (Kindred Theatre), Make Do & Mend, Emil and the Detectives & The Crane (Red Earth Theatre), Alls Well That Ends Well, Richard the Third, Deck the Hall (Demi Paradise Productions), Pooh’s Blustery Day & Polito’s Menagerie (OcchiBlu Theatre at the V&A), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Rocket Theatre), Romeo & Juliet, Blue Remembered Hills, Macbeth, A Midsummer Nights Dream & Dracula, (Feelgood Theatre Productions)
Film & TV includes: Mike Leigh’s Peterloo (Film4/Thin Man Films), Pepper’s Ghost (IWCmedia), Coronation Street (ITV), My Fragile Heart (ITV) & The Cops (BBC).
As a musician & composer, Dan has created music for more than 20 theatre productions and several short films.
Lisa is an experienced actor, singer, director and puppeteer. Combining northern wit and grit, she has nurtured her career in theatre, film and TV, collaborating with many esteemed theatre and production companies such as Leeds Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, Red Ladder, Slung Low, Northern Broadsides, Pilot Theatre, Hull Truck, Curve, Leicester, Dukes, Lancaster and Oldham Coliseum to name a few.
TV and Film include: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is and The Royal for ITV; Red Riding 1983 for Channel 4.
Radio/Voice work include: plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Recent work highlights include; playing the title role in the environmental horror short film KIDDO (Static Flow Productions); developing new plays Ladies That Bus and Ladies That Dig with Ladies That …
Lisa is always seeking to broaden her skills, and recently achieved Level 2 in British Sign Language, after appearing as Christmas Present in a BSL-integrated production of A Christmas Carol for Leeds Playhouse and Hull Truck.
“I am thrilled to be returning to the character of Baba Yaga in Les Enfants Terribles’ spectacular production of The House With Chicken Legs!”
Michael trained at the University of Glasgow and has an MA in Theatre Studies. Credits include Quentin in touring production JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (Hopscotch Theatre), Jonathan in immersive production PADDINGTON MARMALADE MESSINESS (Histrionic Productions), Troy Bolton in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (Shoogly Peg Productions), RENT (Edinburgh University Footlights), Otto in SPRING AWAKENING (Shoogly Peg Productions) and DOGFIGHT (Room 29). Screen credits include Alex in PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE (BBC Children’s), OUTLANDER (Sony/Left Bank) and LOGAN HIGH (Chalkboard TV for BBC).
Elouise has performed in many little corners of the globe. She has toured a fringe production around Ireland (‘Grace’, Love in The Harbour) She also worked with performance artist Dao An Khan in Hanoi, leading Improv workshops to ESL students in Java and performed with community theatres across the South East (‘Peggy’, Lilies on The Land and ‘Anita’, West Side Story).
Recent credits include ‘Jane Eyre’ in Polly Teale’s adaption of the same title (Tobacco Factory Theatres) and ‘Nic’ in the short film ‘Honey Trap’ where she won the title of ‘Best Actress’ at the RS Film Festival 2023.
Theatre credits include: THE WINTER’S TALE (The National Theatre), MACBETH (The National Theatre), and MEDEA (Bristol Old Vic).
TV credits include: SANCTUARY (AMC), THE SPANISH PRINCESS Series 1&2 (Starz), SILENT WITNESS (BBC), NOT GOING OUT (BBC) and STRIKING OUT Series 2 (RTE).
Film credits include: ROLE PLAY (Amazon/Studiocanal), A PRANCER TALE (Universal Pictures), and THE DAMNED (Netflix/Amazon/Universal Pictures).
Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards’ Children’s Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie’s books have been translated into over twenty languages.
As Artistic Director of Les Enfants Terribles, Oliver Lansley founded the company in 2002 shaping it with his distinctive style of storytelling and highly original aesthetic. He is the writer behind the majority of the company’s productions, most recently ‘The Trench’, ‘The Terrible Infants’ and the Olivier award-nominated immersive show ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’ (London, Shanghai).
His experience extends beyond the theatre as a prolific writer for television, most recently ‘Flack’ which he created, wrote and executive produced, starring Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson and Sophie Okonedo and is available to watch on Amazon Prime. He has worked with all the major networks across the UK and US, including HBO, FX, Amazon and the BBC and is also an established actor appearing in projects such as Vigil, Dr Who, Sherlock and Flack.
James is a director and producer with over 20 years’ experience and is also Creative Director of Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company. In this role, he co-directed the world-renowned ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’, a production seen by over 400,000 people which transferred from London for a two-year run in Shanghai. He has also devised, acted in and directed a number of stage shows with the company including critically acclaimed ‘The Trench’ (UK Tour), ‘The Terrible Infants’ (UK Tour, Wilton’s Musical Hall, Adelaide Fringe) and ‘The Vaudevillains’ (Charing CrossTheatre, Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe).
His experience in creating high-impact immersive events traverses theatre and includes large scale brand activations such as ‘Road to the Final’ to celebrate Heineken’s Champions League Semi-Final in Barcelona; an event that took 10 global media influencers across land, sea and sky to arrive at the match, with coverage reaching 56 million unique users from around the globe.
James is well-known for his creativity and unique style of work. He is passionate about bringing the audience into the heart of the experience and continues to explore the potential through theatre, technology and beyond.
Jasmine Swan is an award-winning Set & Costume Designer working across theatre, opera, dance, live events and immersive experiences. Jasmine won Best Costume Design at the UK Pantomime Awards 2023. She was a The Stage Debut Award Nominee in 2018 for Best Designer, for her debut season of work. She was a Linbury Prize for Stage Design Finalist in 2017 and has been nominated for multiple Off West End awards. Jasmine was a resident designer at New Diorama Broadgate design studio 2021/22 and was Laboratory Associate Designer at Nuffield Southampton Theatres in 2017/18. She is interested in creating surreal, abstract and expressionistic spaces, with sustainability and a greener practice in mind. She is a member of Scene Change.
Theatre includes: The Full Monty UK Tour; Beauty & The Beast and Sleeping Beauty (both Mercury Theatre); We Are As Gods (Battersea Arts Centre & National Theatre River Stage); The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre); Lava (The Bush); House of Flamenka (Peacock Theatre); The Jungle Book (Watermill); Eden and The Forest (both Hampstead Theatre).
Samuel Wyer is a Stage, Costume, and Puppet Designer, and Artist.
Theatre includes: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre, West End and UK Tour, Olivier Award-nominated Best new play, Whatsonstage nominated Best Design), The Box of Delights (as puppet Director and designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company), Marvin’s Binoculars (as Co-creator with Director Justin Audibert for the Unicorn Theatre), WILD! (Unicorn Theatre), Forest Fables (Co-creator, NAIADS and the National Trust at Mottistone Manor) Wind in the Wilton’s (as puppet designer for Wilton’s Music Hall), The Boy in the Dress (as puppet designer for the Royal Shakespeare Company) The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), The House with Chicken Legs (Home Manchester, Les Enfants Terribles) Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les Enfants Terribles, The Vaults, Olivier Award-nominated Best Entertainment), The Hartlepool Monkey (Fuel, Gyre and Gimble, UK tour) The Elephantom (National Theatre and Gyre & Gimble)
Opera includes: Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy (Royal Opera House with Little Bulb theatre, Oliver Award Winner, Best Family Show), Seven Deadly Sins / Bluebeards Castle (Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires)
Ballet includes: Lazuli Sky at Sadlers Wells with Birmingham Royal Ballet (nominated for the SKY Arts Award 2021);
Alexander Wolfe is a songwriter and composer from London. He has worked across multiple mediums including theatre, TV, music production and film. As a regular collaborator with Les Enfants Terribles, he composed and performed the soundtrack to The Trench, which has had two 5-star, sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe plus two national tours of the UK, as well as working on Olivier Award-nominated Alice’s Adventures Underground (London, Shanghai).
He has also worked extensively in TV, most recently composing the score and soundtrack to the Amazon Original series Flack, starring Anna Paquin and Sophie Okonedo.
As a solo artist, Wolfe has made 4 albums to date, played all over the world and shared stages with illustrious names such as Vampire Weekend, Feist, Paul Weller and Jamie Cullum among others.
“The most beautiful album we’ve heard in years, period.” – New York Post
Jane is a lighting designer based in Cardiff.
Upcoming projects include:
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Salisbury Playhouse/Bolton Octagon), Around the World in 80 Days (Bolton Octagon)
Recent projects include:
The Card (New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme), Rose (Ambassador’s Theatre, WEST END), The Cost of Living (National Theatre Wales), Song From Far Away starring Will Young (HOME, Manchester), Aladdin (Harrogate Theatre), Constellations (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Right Where We Left Us (Chapter Arts Theatre), Rose starring Maureen Lipman (Hope Mill, Manchester, Park Theatre, London), One Man, Two Guvnors (Bolton Octagon/Theatre by the Lake/ Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse), Circle of Fifths (National Theatre Wales), I Wanna Be Yours (Leeds Playhouse), Grandmother’s Closet (Wales Millennium Centre), The House With Chicken Legs (Les Enfants Terribles/HOME), Wind in the Willows (Taunton Brewhouse), Peter Pan (Bolton Octagon), Antigone (Storyhouse), Meet Me at Dawn (HER Productions/Hope Mill), Ghost Light (Concept and lead artist at Ffwrnes Theatr), The Storm (M6 Theatre), Dr Korczak’s Example (Leeds Playhouse), Giraffes Can’t Dance (Leicester Curve), Feathers (National Dance Company of Wales), Cotton Fingers (National Theatre Wales), Peeling (Taking Flight), Last Five Years (Leeway Productions)
Nina Dunn is an award-winning video and projection designer who has created work for a wide range of shows internationally. She is the Creative Director at PixelLux and an educator within the industry.
Theatre credits include: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (Shanghai Ballet); The Shark is Broken, Bonnie & Clyde, City of Angels, No Man’s Land, Cookies (West End); 9 to 5 The Musical (West End, UK and Australian Tour, Daegu International Festival, Korea); Spitting Image Live (The Rep, Birmingham); Othello, Manor, Emperor & Galilean (Royal National Theatre); L’Orfeo, Der Freischütz, Macbeth (Wiener Staatsoper); Don Quixote, Lazuli Sky (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Seven Deadly Sins,
Bluebeard’s Castle (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires); A Museum in Baghdad, Venice Preserved, Miss Littlewood, The Seven Acts of Mercy, Volpone (Royal Shakespeare Company); Hamlet, The Mountaintop (Young Vic); The Trials (Donmar Warehouse); Extinct (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Shedding a Skin (Soho Theatre); Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella (Imagine Theatre); Plenty, Copenhagen, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); Spring Gala, Christmas at ROH (Royal Opera House); Phantom of the Opera (UK, US and Australian tour); The Rocky Horror Show (European tour).
Awards include: Best Video Design for Bonnie & Clyde (Broadway World UK), Best Video and Electronic Content for Alice’s Adventures Underground (Knight of Illumination), Best Design for Cinderella and Beauty and The Beast (UK Pantomime Association Awards), and a nomination for Best Video Design for The Shark is Broken (WhatsOnStage).
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