Husband and wife Feargus Woods Dunlop and Heather Westwell co-founded New Old Friends and have discovered a knack – and award-winning success – bringing detective stories to family audiences. We caught up with them as their adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s The Falcon’s Malteser prepares for London premiere at The Vaults next month. Time to get booking!
WATCH: Spider-Man gets the first question in at The Falcon’s Malteser post-show
How did New Old Friends come to adapt Anthony Horowitz’s 1986 children’s novel The Falcon’s Malteser into a hit family stage show? What do the kids (including a keen young Spider-Man!) – and parents – in the audience think?
‘Lively & engaging from start to finish’: THE FALCON’S MALTESER – The Vaults ★★★★
Adapted for the stage by Feargus Woods Dunlop, The Falcon’s Malteser captures the spirit, humour and element of excitement that exists in Anthony Horowitz’s stories with great success.
‘A must-see for anyone in London over the summer’: THE FALCON’S MALTESER – The Vaults ★★★★
Director Lee Lyford has bought together a fine mixture of comedy, family fun and mystery to this adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s The Falcon’s Malteser.
‘Anthony Horowitz is a wonderfully generous & talented man’: Feargus Woods Dunlop & Heather Westwell on adapting The Falcon’s Malteser
Husband and wife Feargus Woods Dunlop and Heather Westwell co-founded New Old Friends and have discovered a knack – and award-winning success – bringing detective stories to family audiences. We caught up with them as their adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s The Falcon’s Malteser prepares for London premiere at The Vaults next month. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Anthony Horowitz family hit The Falcon’s Malteser transfers to The Vaults
Who is the world’s worst detective? You’ll need to investigate the case of The Falcon’s Malteser, adapted from Anthony Horowitz’s much-loved young adult novel by New Old Friends, which gets its central London premiere at The Vaults in a limited six-week season this summer.
‘Is there anything on the London stage more gracefully eloquent?’: EMILIA – West End
It’s a rare moment of beautiful subtlety in a play that is more often considerably bolder in its sentiment, but it’s also a mark of just how nuanced Nicole Charles’ production and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s writing is.
BEAUTY & THE BEAST – Bristol ★★★★
If Christmas shows are measured by the smile it puts on our faces and the gales of laughter elicited from the younger ones, then this is a stone-iron smash.