Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne's new alternative winter show for children, Wintry Tales: Snow Covered Maps and Mountainous Mayhem, is by children’s author Lisette Auton in collaboration with local schoolchildren from five schools in the North East: Caedmon Community Primary School, Northern Counties and Percy Hedley School, Southwick Community Primary School and Westgate Hill Primary Academy.
The tales will be brought to life on stage by North East actors Maya Torres and Hannah Walker.
Auton said: “I have loved getting to work with loads of ridiculously talented and imaginative schoolchildren, and then taking the extraordinary ideas we have come up with together and twirling them into Wintry Tales.
"The cast and creative team are incredible, and we're having great fun making a hercu-flea (who is the size of a cornflake and super strong), the freezer aisle at the Big Tesco and a Wizard Detective who loves hot chocolate come to life. Expect talking owls, a shape-shifting Pug and two explorers who need your help to find their way home...”
New for 2023 is a chance to see Santa at Live Theatre, with storytelling from Santa himself in a festively adorned Undercroft.
Wintry Tales: Snow Covered Maps and Mountainous Mayhem runs from 9–23 December 2023.