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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20071121
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Byline: BY PHILIP KEY Daily Post Arts Editor

PINOCCHIO is the story we all think we know, mainly thanks to Walt Disney's 1940 animated feature. It will be getting a rather different treatment when it goes on stage at Liverpool's Unity Theatre from December 4.

Director and co-deviser Paula Simms has gone back to the original for her new production The Adventures of Pinocchio at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

"That is quite a dark story and of epic length," she says of Italian writer Carlo Collodi's tale about a puppet which comes to life written in the late 19th ...

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