BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE UGLY DUCKLING and More Slated for Christmas 2017 at Tobacco Factory Theatres

Celebrate at the theatre this Christmas season! Christmas is always busy at Tobacco Factory Theatres and this year is no exception with not one, not two, but three Christmas shows for all of the family to enjoy.

Beauty and the Beast is a new co-production for Tobacco Factory Theatres with NIE and Cambridge Junction and is a bonanza of a Christmas show for everyone aged 5+. Meanwhile The Ugly Duckling, a co-production with Travelling Light for ages 2+, promises to be a delightful treat for littlies.

Also part of the festive season and playing as part of Tobacco Factory Theatres BEYOND is Living Spit's Nativity. It's particularly naughty, not for the faint hearted and for ages 16+.

Scroll down for details!

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A TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES, NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER AND CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION CO-PRODUCTION

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Thu 30 November 2017 - Sun 14 January 2018

Press night Tue 05 December 7pm - Join us for press night from 6.15pm for wine and mince pies!

Director Alex Byrne
Cast includes Martin Bonger, Carly Davis, Gregory Hall, Sara Lessore, Samantha Sutherland, Ben Tolley

Running Time 2hrs (inc. interval)

Age Recommendation 5+

This Christmas Tobacco Factory Theatres teams up again with world-renowned theatre company New International Encounter (Hansel and Gretel, Around the World in 80 Days) to bring you a mischievous and music-filled marvel of a Christmas show.

Deep in the forest lives a very unusual figure, suffering under a terrible curse. In a poky farmhouse on the edge of town, three remarkable daughters and their weary father are struggling to make ends meet. But everything changes beyond their wildest dreams when Belle, the youngest of the daughters, dares to enter the forest...

This re-telling of the French classic fairy tale is brimming with surprises and delights to remind us that beauty - and beastliness - are only skin deep.

Director Alex Byrne explains what makes it such an enticing story for Christmas, "The show is all about magic, about transformation, about a terrible cure and how it unwinds. It's about a terrible beast in the middle of the forest who hides a dark secret that only love can unlock. It's also about families, about siblings and what happens when a family falls on hard times... After seeing the show I hope audiences feel exhilarated and overjoyed and ready for Christmas!"

Beauty and the Beast opened at Cambridge Junction last Christmas to rave reviews and packed houses. So snap up seats for the ultimate festive treat!

TICKETS

Thu 30 November - Sun 03 December Previews All tickets £10

Tue 05 - Sat 30 December Full £20 / Concession £16 / Family Ticket* £62

Wed 03 - Sun 14 January Full £16 / Concession £12 / Family Ticket* £46

Schools £9.50 (mid-week matinees only)

*4 tickets including at least one child ticket

BSL INTERPRETED PERFORMANCE

Fri 15 December 7.30pm

Email tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com to book tickets in sight of the BSL interpreter, Helen Moore.

RELAXED PERFORMANCES
Schools performance Wed 10 January 1pm
Family performance Thu 11 January 6pm
A performance specially adapted to create a more welcoming atmosphere for audiences with additional needs. A pre-show information pack will be provided, the house lights will be on, sound and lighting effects will be lessened and a chill out space will be available.

Booking details:
Box Office: 0117 902 0344 / tobaccofactorytheatres.com / tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com
Address: Tobacco Factory Theatres, Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF

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A TRAVELLING LIGHT AND TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES CO-PRODUCTION

THE UGLY DUCKLING

SUN 10 DECEMBER 2017 - SUN 14 JANUARY 2018

Press performance Fri 15 December 2.30pm - Join us before the press performance from 1.45pm for a drink and a mince pie!

Director Sally Cookson | Revival Director Craig Edwards | Composer Benji Bower | Designer Katie Sykes | Lighting Designer Matt Graham

Cast includes Emily May Smith, Heidi Niemi, Heather Williams and Brian Hargreaves.

Running Time approx. 45mins

Age Recommendation 2+ and their families

The multi award-winning team behind the hugely popular Cinderella: A Fairytale, last year's Christmas show at Tobacco Factory Theatres, brings all its trademark magic and mastery to a warming wintry tale of family, feathers and fitting in.

Frost. Ice. Quiet. The farm is sleeping, snuggled up for warmth. Suddenly the peace is shattered by the arrival of... a duckling. Scruffy, clumsy and NOTHING like his fluffy yellow siblings, our unlikely, gangly and slightly wobbly hero sets off on an epic adventure to find the place where he truly belongs.

Hans Christian Andersen's much-loved story comes springing to life at the hands of Sally Cookson, Benji Bower and Katie Sykes, with Travelling Light's trademark joyful and moving storytelling, enchanting live music and fantastical invention. 10 years since its opening here at Tobacco Factory Theatres, and following 5 star reviews and an acclaimed national tour, The Ugly Duckling promises to leave young and old and everyone in between enraptured, uplifted and asking for more.

TICKETS

Sun 10 - Fri 15 December 10.30am Previews £7

Fri 15 December 2.30pm - Sun 14 January Full £12 / Concession £9

RELAXED PERFORMANCE
Tue 02 January 1.30pm
A performance specially adapted to create a more welcoming atmosphere for audiences with additional needs. A pre-show information pack will be provided, the house lights will be on, sound and lighting effects will be lessened and a chill out space will be available.

Booking details:
Box Office: 0117 902 0344 / tobaccofactorytheatres.com / tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com
Address: Tobacco Factory Theatres, Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF

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ALSO THIS CHRISTMAS AND PRESENTED BY TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES BEYOND

LIVING SPIT'S NATIVITY

Tue 12 - Sat 30 December 2017
Press night Wed 13 December 8pm

After their triumphant take on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Howard and Stu are back to tackle the second greatest Christmas story ever told. With the usual mix of silly songs, pitiful puppetry and more Biblical befuddlement than you can shake a Figgy Pudding at, Living Spit's Nativity promises to be a cornucopia of comic Christmassy crudeness that you'll never forget!

RUNNING TIME 1hr 30mins (inc. interval)

AGE RECOMMENDATION 16+ (not for the faint-hearted!)

TICKETS £14

VENUE THE THEATRE SHOP Unit 5, Triangle Centre, Queens Square, Kenn Road, Clevedon BS21 6HX (theatreshop.org.uk)

Booking details:
Box Office: 0117 902 0344 / tobaccofactorytheatres.com / tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com
Address: Tobacco Factory Theatres, Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1TF

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Tobacco Factory Theatres produces and presents excellent art in unique, intimate spaces at Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol, as well as off site in Bristol and in venues across the country. It presents a jam-packed programme of diverse and exciting shows, workshops and events, from classic and contemporary theatre, to theatre for families, comedy, dance, music, opera and puppetry. It also runs an expanding programme of engagement, learning and participation opportunities for audiences, young people and artists.

For more information, visit tobaccofactorytheatres.com, email tickets@tobaccofactorytheatres.com, or follow on Twitter @tftheatres and Facebook/Instagram Tobacco Factory Theatres.

NIE (New International Encounter) is an award-winning international and multilingual collaboration between theatre makers from different European countries and traditions. Since 2001 they have created 24 original shows and toured to 29 different countries spanning 4 continents. They have offices in Cambridge and Oslo and are part of the National Portfolio of organisations funded by Arts Council England.

NIE's aim is to create playful stories that connect us all and they make visually driven performances that speak directly and dynamically to an audience. They have worked with some of Europe's finest venues including Battersea Arts Centre, The Young Vic, Lyric Hammersmith, Warwick Arts Centre, Plymouth Theatre (UK), Odsherred Teater (Denmark), JES Stuttgart (Germany) Dschunglewien, the Shaxpir festival (Austria) and Dramatikkens Hus (Oslo).

Cambridge Junction is the arts centre in Cambridge where art meets life. At Cambridge Junction, audiences and artists experience and explore contemporary performance, popular culture, creative learning, and the rich territories in-between. It is committed to art and entertainment that is up-and-coming, youthful and cutting-edge. It seeks to be relevant and meaningful to the lives of audiences and informed by its location in Cambridge.

Travelling Light Theatre creates exciting and inspiring theatre for and with young people from its base in Bristol. For over 30 years Travelling Light have been creating outstanding productions, touring in theatre venues to family audiences throughout the UK, in local schools and community venues, and to festivals in Britain, Europe and beyond. The company also works with young people through education and development projects as well as five thriving youth theatre groups. Over the course of its history Travelling Light has performed to, or worked with, more than a million people.

Photo: Camilla Adams/Design: Joe Roberts

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