An exquisite theatrical adventure into the imaginative world of books.

The Labyrinth in the Library is an exciting, inventive performance which celebrates reading and suggests that books can be guides, teachers and companions for life.

The story begins with Hugo being sent to the library after being caught playing a computer game during reading time. Drifting towards the back of the library, Hugo discovers a bookcase loaded with titles such as; ‘The Wi of Oz’, ‘Grimm’s Airy Ales’ and ‘Lice in Wonderland’. When Hugo pulls out ‘The Word in the Stone’ the bookcase spins around and propels him into the gap between the bookshelves, an endless labyrinth where books come alive. Indeed the novel in Hugo’s hand begins to wriggle and out pops Merlin the Wizard.

Merlin explains that a terrible Robot is sucking out the letters from the books and if it isn’t stopped then every book will be erased. Hugo must enter the labyrinth, sneak past the monsters, outwit the sorcerers and defeat the Robot. However he won’t need to do it alone, the books will help him.

So Hugo journeys through the labyrinth performing many perilous tasks assisted by the characters, stories and puppets who unfold from the books. But when he’s just about to destroy the Robot, a clue from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ suggests that things might not be what they seem. Hugo uses his imagination and decides that the Robot isn’t trying to erase the books, it wants to understand them and the solution isn’t to fight but to teach it how to read.