There’s a sickness in the air – it’s infecting all the nation,
A parasite – it rots the brain and kills imagination.
Attention spans are plummeting, they’re at an all-time low,
In this online age of likes and snaps, books are the first to go.

These days, books are having a rough time. They’re neglected, disrespected and overshadowed by their younger, more glamorous cousins YouTube and Netflix. The time has come for some of our most beloved works of literature to take back the limelight and reawaken the bookworm in all of us!

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night is a vivacious variety show filled with scenes, monologues, musical numbers and more, all celebrating books and storytelling. Peter Pan, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird and the Harry Potter series are just some of the classics on the bill, along with a few fairy tales, and iconic characters popping up in unexpected places…