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Dateline: 27th June, 2005
Horrible Histories to Tour Birmingham Stage Company, whose latest production of The Jungle Book is playing to packed houses around the UK, today announced the first ever tour of Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories.
Terry Deary is the world's best selling non-fiction author for children and one of the most popular children’s authors in the country. He has written over 140 books, which have been translated into thirty different languages from China to Brazil. In 2003 all ten children’s non-fiction books in the Bookseller charts were by Deary and in both 2003 and 2004 he was the most borrowed non-fiction author (children or adult books) in British libraries. Terrible Tudors was also voted ‘Best Book of Knowledge of All Time’ by Blue Peter viewers. Horrible Histories will open at The Civic Theatre, Darlington on 20th September and then visit more than 20 other venues around the UK until April 2006. The tour will stage two of Terry Deary’s most successful Horrible Histories – The Terrible Tudors and The Vile Victorians.
Using actors and ground-breaking 3D video technology this adaptation of Deary’s books will make historical figures and events from the Tudor and Victorian periods come alive on stage and hover at your fingertips.
In The Terrible Tudors the audience will see the legends (and the lies!) of the torturing Tudors, find out the fate of Henry Vlll’s headless wives, see his punch up with the Pope and find out why Sir Thomas More was no more!
In The Vile Victorians they’ll discover if they could have survived the filth of the 19th century factories and the misery of the mines. They’ll find out what a baby farmer did and be taken on a ride on the rotten railway - its slums and sewers, ghosts and graveyards - plus some seriously silly music hall songs! Tour Dates
>> New Dates Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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