Following its acclaimed debut show, The Zanniskinheads and the Quest for the Holy Balls (Edinburgh Fringe and national tour), Slingshot Theatre focuses its surreal eyes and physical comedy on the greatest birth ever. Nativity in Creakebottom will be at Camberley Theatre on Sunday 1 December.
Directed by West End veteran Andrew C Wadsworth, the original music score is composed by the Mark Dean of theatre company Strangeface, with a script is by Christopher Dennis.
The scene is set in the humble village of Creakebottom, which can be found in the golden, flat and technologically dated lands of deepest Suffolk and is home to the local All-Male Amateur Dramatics Society, aka the AMADSCI. After catching wind of a new theatre festival coming to the region, the troupe spy a platform for their immaculate theatrical concept.
Inspired by England's medieval mystery plays with a nod to Shakespeare's "rude mechanicals", the show was developed by a grant from the Christian Arts Trust and through support from G-Live, Guildford, the Guildford School of Acting and the Coign Church, Woking.
It will tour to theatres, arts houses, schools and churches across the winter season, ending with a charity performance at the Crisis at Christmas Skylight base in London.