PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
CHRISTMAS SHOWS
We have three Christmas plays touring this coming festive season and there are a number dates when we will be visiting venues for a public performance. You can catch us in A Christmas Carol, The Snow Queen and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and details of venues will be published soon,
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
It’s a cold, bleak, biting Christmas Eve and old miser Scrooge is not full of the Christmas spirit. But on returning home he suddenly finds himself visited by four ghostly apparitions come to teach him a lesson.
As Christmas day dawns are these apparitions and their dire warnings enough to make Scrooge see the error of his ways?
Come and find out in this lively new adaptation by Michael Whitmore, a festive treat for all the family.
“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart...."
SUMMER OUTDOOR SEASON 2020
THE SNOW QUEEN
When Gerda’s dearest friend Kay is taken by the Snow Queen no one knows what’s become of him, but the heart-broken Gerda decides she must set out to find him...
But once she finally reaches the Snow Queen's icy palace is she too late to break the spell and melt Kay’s frozen heart?
FInd out in Michael Whitmore's touching adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic - a heart-warming tale of love conquering all'.
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING
When the magical inventor Dr Drosselmeyer brings the Stahlbaum family a Christmas present, Marie is captivated by the little Nutcracker. But after everyone has gone to bed strange things begin to happen…
Can Marie and her brave Nutcracker defeat the Mouse King? And how will the evil curse on the Nutcracker be broken?
Join us in Michael Whitmore's charming new adaptation of this festive classic as Marie and her Nutcracker fight to become Prince and Princess of the Land of Sweets...
"Now then, we will begin.... When the story is done, you shall know a great deal more than you do now..."
"Oh, father, dear father, you cannot think where the Nutcracker led me last night, and what beautiful things I have seen!..."
Following a wonderful (if somewhat wet) summer on the road with The Wind in the Willows and A Midsummer Night's Dream we are thrilled to announce our titles for our Summer Outdoor Season 2020. Our family show will be the swashbuckling adventure, Treasure Island, and we will be touring a new production of the wonderful summer classic A Midsummer Night's Dream. Full details of tour dates and how to purchase tickets will be announced here next spring.
David Holland and Benji Saysell as Ratty and Badger
in The Wind in the Willows
Tom King and David Holland
in The Wind in the Willows
Nathan Unthank as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream
photo by Gordon Scammell
Nathan Unthank as Demetrius and Eloise Hare as Puck
photo by Gordon Scammell