Beware Those Ruthless Romans And Awful Egyptians
Following their huge success with Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians last year Birmingham Stage Company have now adapted two more of Scholastic’s best selling Horrible Histories books for the stage.
Ruthless Romans and Awful Egyptians have just premiered at Tunbridge Wells Theatre and are now on a 10 month long tour visiting approx forty more venues around the UK until December including a week in BSC’s home city of Birmingham playing at The Alexandra Theatre 1 – 5 May.
Birmingham Stage Company use both actors and Bogglevision, the 3D special effects invented by UK company Amazing Interactives, to bring these two separate plays Ruthless Romans and Awful Egyptians, adapted and directed by John-Paul Cherrington, to life on the stage.
In Ruthless Romans you’ll find out how the Romans made murder into a sport in the Colosseum with more fouls even than a Premiership football match! You’ll see eight evil emperors, lots of killer kings plus masses of gory gladiators and grim ghouls! With incredible Bogglevision effects you’ll feel what it was really like to be a Roman soldier in the greatest army ever seen and fight lots of gory battles against hordes of grotty Celts – but watch out for those flaming arrows whizzing straight for your head!
In Awful Egyptians you’ll learn the truth of Tutankhamun and his creepy curse and find out the fearsome facts about ‘phabulous’ pharaohs, mean mummies and gruesome grave robbers. You’ll see how the Egyptians really lived 5000 years ago – how dead bodies were turned into mummies and how the huge pyramids were built. Dare you enter through the Gates of the Afterlife? Beware the Evil Eye of Horus - has it got its eye on you?
Birmingham, Stage Company are well known for their great stage versions of children’s classics such as The Jungle Book, Tom’s Midnight Garden, Kensuke’s Kingdom, their current tour - Roald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World and now the fantastically funny Rotten Romans and Awful Egyptians.
Families across the land must not miss out on this awful chance to travel back in time. Treat your whole family to a great show – both funny and historically informative and discover all the really ‘yucky’ bits of history that teachers and serious books never tell you! To be enjoyed by everyone from 5 to 105 And don’t forget your mummy!
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