Created in collaboration with Pegasus Theatre, Oxfordshire Theatre Company’s winter show Peach Boy: The Adventures of Momotaro is a delightful and accessible taste of Japanese folklore and customs.

It follows the adventures of a fabulous boy, discovered as a baby by a washerwoman inside a peach. He is possessed of superhuman power and is obviously something to do with the supernatural world of the Gods.

He is swept up in to a great adventure, complete with ogres, spirits, and companions such as a talking dog, monkey and pheasant, learning that there is more to life than being super-strong and brave.

Our hero is played with engaging verve by Elliott Quinn, while Gillian Cally plays a variety of roles such as Ma, Pheasant, and Sun Goddess with great nimbleness of characterisation. Making up the trio is Jonathan Metcalf – also playing roles both human and supernatural. His outstanding performance was all the more notable because he had only joined the production a week before. One would never have guessed that. The show has been woven together masterfully by Karen Simpson and is full of visual delights, interesting puppetry, charming songs and an unmistakable flavour of Japan. The beautiful design, by Jane Linz Roberts, will work marvellously in the varied village halls and community centres it will be going to, while the show itself will appeal to a wide range of ages.

Peach Boy will be visiting many Oxfordshire venues during their tour. In November they will be going to Bernard Hall, Cuddington, tomorrow, Lains Barn, near Wantage, on Tuesday, Alvescot Village Hall (20), Mollington Village Hall (21), Bayards Hill School (22), St Edburg’s Church Hall, Bicester (26), Stanton Harcourt Memorial and Millennium Hall (27), Begbroke Village Hall (28) and Langford Village Community Centre (29).

December will see them visit West Oxford Primary School (3), The Barn, Blackbird Leys (4), Woodstock CE School (5), Appleton Village Hall (6), Risinghurst Community Centre (8), Chilton Village Hall (11), New Beaconsfield Hall (12), Uffington Memorial Hall (18), Morris Memorial Hall, Kelmscott (19), Duns Tew Village Hall (20), Kingham Village Hall (22) and Tackley Village Hall (23).

There is only one Oxfordshire date in January – Charlbury Primary School, on January 16 – but the touring programme resumes locally in February (www.oxfordshiretheatrecompany.co.uk).