The Velveteen Rabbit

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; and he yearned to be real. The days grew long and the rabbit’s coat became shabby, for the Boy loved him, and wherever the Boy went, the Rabbit went too. London’s Unicorn Theatre (Tom’s Midnight Garden, New Vic 2001) brings Margery Williams’s timeless tale of The Velveteen Rabbit to life in this poignant adaptation about love, loss and growing up.