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 The Birmingham Stage Company is one of the UK’s most successful theatre companies who have specialised in touring top quality stage adaptations of children’s classic books.

 

This year they celebrate their 18th anniversary with two great new shows - a brand new production of George's Marvellous Medicine adapted by David Wood - one of Roald Dahl's funniest stories, and for the first time live on stage, Horrible Science by Nick Arnold. Recent BSC sell-out successes include Jungle Book, Why the Whales Came, Danny the Champion of the World, Horrible Histories and Skellig.

 

George's Marvellous Medicine

 

 In George’s Marvellous Medicine a young boy makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper. But when she drinks his special new potion the most incredible things start to happen – and it’s the beginning of George’s amazing adventures, providing a wonderfully comic show for all ages 4+ and the whole family, including all non-grumpy grannies!

The show has been a huge hit in Birmingham over the Christmas season and received rave reviews:

             “Wonderfully witty. Enters into Dahl’s quirky world with aplomb and enormous glee".
The Times

“Marvellous! It has all the ingredients needed for a really good family show.Entrancing from start to finish” Birmingham Mail

It will tour throughout 2010 and the first venues include:

Until 13 Feb Old Rep Theatre Birmingham box office 0121 303 2323
17 – 20 Feb Hexagon Reading
box office 0118 960 6060
23 – 27 Feb Whitley Bay Playhouse box office 0191 252 3505
2 – 6 March 
Charter Theatre Preston
box office 0845 344 2012
11 – 13 March Marina Theatre Lowestoft
box office 01502 533200
23 – 27 March Princess Theatre Torquay box office 0844 847 2315
30 March – 3Apr Regent Theatre Stoke on Trent
box office 0844 871 7649
6 – 10 April
Lyceum Theatre Sheffield box office 0114 249 6000
13 – 17 Apr 
Civic Theatre Chelmsford box office 01245 606505
27 Apr – 1 May Theatre Royal Lincoln box office 01522 519999
12 – 15 May            Octagon Theatre, Yeovil box office 01935 422884
19 - 22 May
Watford Palace box office  01923 225671
25 – 29 May
New Theatre Hull box office 01482 226655

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horrible Science

Horrible Science uses actors and amazing 3D Bogglevision special effects to find the awful answers to important questions such as why do we produce 50,000 litres of spit in a lifetime – enough to fill 100 baths? Can you fight deadly diseases and beastly bacteria just using eggs? Can you survive the Bathroom of Doom and the Toothbrush of Terror - when in just a few hours one bacterium can produce 100 million copies of itself to infect your towel, flannel, toothbrush and even your hands!
The audience will join Billy Miller, a recalcitrant 10-year-old, as he battles his way through the Horrible Science World, facing dreadful dangers and putrid puns! They’ll encounter fatal forces such as gravity and magnetism; discover the shocking truth about electricity, how bacteria and microbe monsters inflict their killer diseases and how the different parts of the body fit together.
Horrible Science is suitable for ages 6+ and covers much of the science curriculum that Key Stage 2 children have to learn but deals with these topics in such unusual and hilariously disgusting ways as to seem a million miles from the classroom! Both those who already enjoy the subject and also the confirmed science haters will all find Horrible Science is unlike any theatre production they have ever seen before – a hugely fun way for the whole family to learn lots of important new things – laughing and gasping while they do it!
Horrible Science tours until December but the first venues include:

2 – 6 Feb 
Assembly Halls Tunbridge Wells 01325 486555
9 – 13 Feb Civic Theatre Darlington 01325 486555
16 – 20 Feb Belgrade Theatre Coventry 024 7655 3055
23 – 27 Feb New Theatre Cardiff 029 2087 8889
2 – 6 March New Wimbledon Theatre 0870 060 6646
8 – 10 March Hexagon Reading 0118 960 6060
11 – 13 March Theatre Royal Winchester 01962 840440
14 – 16 March Palace Theatre Mansfield 01623 633133
23 – 27 March
Grand Theatre Blackpool 01253 290190
7 – 10 April
Swan Theatre High Wycombe 01494 512000
13 – 17 April
Bradford Alhambra 01274 432000
20 – 24 April
Orchard Theatre Dartford 01322 220000
10 – 14 May
Opera House Jersey 01534 511115
18 – 22 May
Leicester Curve
0116 242 3595
27 – 29 May Plymouth Pavilions 0845 1461460

You can see trailers of both shows and find all the touring venue information at www.birminghamstage.com
Or ring 0207 437 3391