An innovative and groundbreaking poetry show written and performed by Murray Lachlan Young, one of the UK's foremost performance poets and a regular fixture on BBC Radio 4's SATURDAY LIVE. A mixture of: poetry, stand-up comedy, storytelling and a touch of panto make for a hilarious and positive route to showing children that poetry can be fun, thought-provoking and occasionally quite cool! This show gets children dancing on-stage, completing simple fun poems, being Ponies and getting seriously involved in live interactive poetry - this is a raucous, silly, scary, funny poignant and enlightening hour of merriment and mayhem.

Some thoughts on Modern Cautionary Tales for Children:

“I entrusted Murray Lachlan Young with my most precious possession in the world, my six year old god-daughter Lois, and watched as he put the biggest smile on her face I’ve ever seen. All children’s shows should be like this – dark and light, mysterious and understandable, magical and ordinary. And adults forget they’re not themselves children. Best children’s show there is? No. Best show there is, period.”

Graham Frost, Producer, Bespoken Word (BBC Radio 4), 26.6.08

"Who'd have thought it .The big bad boy of performance poetry. turns out to be one of the greatest children's entertainers I have ever seen. There is not a patronising nanosecond in this show - children and 'ex-children' are treated exactly alike, so children and 'ex-children' enjoy it alike. Go on, practise your animal noises and give yourself some fun!"
THE SCOTSMAN, FIVE STARS

"Young is clearly one of the most likeable performers not just at the Fringe, but in the world. His poetry is funny, observational and entirely silly. His audience banter is even funnier. Essentially, though, Young's show defies description. A literary event, a stand-up show, a cosy chat [it] is all these things, and more. While his choice of music, largely carved from the world of film, is just inspired. Young is so full of enthusiasm it can't help but rub off, and a pack of smiling faces will undoubtedly file out of the Gilded Balloon for the rest of August"
THE LIST, FIVE STARS