Event type: Theatre

A Christmas Carol

A CHRISTMAS CAROL 

A radio play live on stage

Written by Charles Dickens, adapted by Martin Parsons

 Back on tour after its sell-out success last year!

 Live on stage and in person, television favourites COLIN BAKER (Doctor Who, The Brothers) and SOPHIE ALDRED (Words & Pictures, Doctor Who) lead the cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic – which also features a rare, specially recorded appearance by TOM BAKER (Doctor Who, Monarch Of The Glen) as Jacob Marley!

 “He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge – a squeezing, grasping, covetous, old sinner!”

On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of his late partner, Jacob Marley, that he will be visited by three Spirits – Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. Together they whisk Scrooge to the past and his happy boyhood Christmastimes, to the present to meet Tiny Tim at Bob Cratchit’s Christmas feast, and finally to the future and Scrooge’s own miserable grave – all attempting to show him the error of his ways. But will Scrooge wake on Christmas morning a changed man?

Presented by the Crime And Comedy Theatre Company as a radio-play-live-on-stage, our setting is a radio studio, our actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and our sound effects created live – all combining to transport the audience to Victorian London, for this 180th anniversary production of Dickens’ timeless tale of charity, forgiveness and redemption at Christmas.

Pat the Painting Pig

Pat the Painting Pig at the Unity Theatre

In the heart of Wiley Wood lives a tremendous artist known as Pat the Painting Pig. His paintings are so magnificent that his talents start to bring unwanted fame and attention from the other animals. Pat finds all of this very distracting and so he hatches a plan to be able to work in peace once again. Just how far will he go to be left alone? And at what cost?

Join Pat and a host of other woodland creatures in this charming exploration of friendship, community and artistic talent. Pat the Painting Pig is a brand new play featuring set and props made at Bridge Inn Community Farm, and original music and songs. This pig-tastic adventure will have the entire family clapping along and oinking with laughter.

Written by Ed Bixter

Directed by Suzy Walker

Original Music by Sonic Mutiny

Produced by Gambolling Arena and Sonic Mutiny

Pat the Painting Pig | Workshop

Pat the Painting Pig | Workshop at the Unity Theatre

WORKSHOP 1:

5-8yrs old | 10:00 – 11:15

Workshop will begin with a short introduction of the story PAT THE PAINTING PIG and the actors will explore the characters of the animals and their sounds and develop a soundscape and finish with hands on session designing and creating flowers for the set

WORKSHOP 2:

9-11yrs old | 11.30 – 13:00

Workshop session will start with some ice-breaker exercises and a synopsis of the play followed by vocal warm-ups focusing on the animal characters and a collaborative workshop to create pieces for the set

Of Mice and Men

OF MICE AND MEN

by John Steinbeck.

Adapted by Nigel Miles-Thomas.

Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International

Set against the harsh backdrop of the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men is the story of George and Lennie, two friends with a simple dream: to own a farm and live off the fat of the land.

There are times, though, when sharpwitted George feels the burden of looking after Lennie, while gentle giant Lennie doesn’t realise his own strength… As they drift from job to job, trouble’s never far away, and before long it’s time to move on again.

When the pair get work in Soledad, California, however, the dream looks set to become a reality. But a tragic turn of events threatens to destroy George and Lennie’s friendship and leaves George faced with an impossible choice…

 

Starring;

Nigel Miles-Thomas

Michael Roy Andrew

Directed by Larry Lamb