{"id":49671,"date":"2026-07-27T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/?p=49671"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:22:04","slug":"dermot-olearys-toto-the-ninja-cat-pounces-into-eastbourne-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/dermot-olearys-toto-the-ninja-cat-pounces-into-eastbourne-this-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot O’Leary’s TOTO THE NINJA CAT Pounces into Eastbourne this September"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The fearless feline from Dermot O’Leary’s<\/strong> bestselling children’s books comes to life in Toto the Ninja Cat<\/strong>, a brand new family musical at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne<\/strong>, from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>

Meet Toto, an extraordinary ninja cat who is almost completely blind but has incredible courage, a huge heart and a nose for adventure. Joined by her mischievous brother, Silver, Toto must save London after a deadly King Cobra escapes onto the city streets in this action packed adaptation of the first book in the bestselling series, illustrated by Nick East.<\/strong><\/p>

The bestselling Toto the Ninja Cat <\/em>series is based on Dermot’s\u00a0real-life\u00a0pets and has sold more than half a million copies globally and has been translated into 17 languages to date.<\/p>

Author Dermot O\u2019Leary<\/strong>\u00a0says\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0over the moon to see my book brought to life through puppetry. Toto is currently fast asleep, blissfully unaware of all the attention, but speaking on her behalf, she’ll be thrilled to bits that her adventures are about to come to life, in theatres to audiences all around the country.”<\/em><\/p>

Illustrator Nick East <\/strong>says: ”Working with Dermot on the Toto the Ninja Cat series has been an utter delight, and I\u2019m thrilled that the amazing Little Angel team are now giving our fearless feline a whole new adventure in puppet form – it\u2019s sure to be the cat\u2019s whiskers!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>

Packed with original music, spectacular puppetry and laugh-out-loud comedy, Toto the Ninja Cat<\/strong> is the perrr-fect first theatre experience for young audiences, inspiring a new generation to discover the magic of live performance.<\/p>

Toto the Ninja Cat<\/strong> runs at the Devonshire Park Theatre<\/strong> from 25\u201327 September 2026<\/strong>. Tickets start from \u00a319<\/strong> and are available at eastbournetheatres.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The fearless feline from Dermot O’Leary’s bestselling children’s books comes to life in Toto the Ninja Cat, a brand new family musical at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September 2026. Meet Toto, an extraordinary ninja cat who is almost completely blind but has incredible courage, a huge heart and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[724],"tags":[],"directory-category":[],"event_categories":[],"class_list":["post-49671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-fun"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-09-27 21:58:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49678,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49671\/revisions\/49678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49671"},{"taxonomy":"directory-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory-category?post=49671"},{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/eastbourne-wealden-lewes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=49671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}