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Instead of cute fluffy little chicks this Easter holiday BSC have Giant chickens running amok and laying gynormous eggs and it’s all due to George’s Marvellous Medicine!

Roald Dahl’s comic masterpiece is currently on tour and will be playing at Sheffield and Chelmsford during the Easter holidays.

Birmingham Stage Company’s new stage version of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine adapted by David Wood broke all records at Birmingham’s Old Rep over Christmas and has proved an equally big draw on the first part of its UK tour.

This Easter holidays it will be thrilling families during its runs at Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre 6 – 10 April (box office 0114 249 6000) and Chelmsford’s Civic Theatre 13 – 17 April (box office 01245 606505).

George’s tour will then continue around the country until next year – further venue details below.

First published in 1981 George’s Marvellous Medicine is one of Dahl’s funniest and most exciting stories all about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper. But when his grandmother drinks his special new potion the results are explosive and the most incredible things begin to happen - it’s the start of George’s amazing adventures which provide a wonderful knockabout comic romp for the audience!
This new stage version of George is by David Wood, one of the UK’s leading children’s playwrights who was even dubbed the national children’s dramatist by The Times. He won the AATE Distinguished Playwriting Award for the second time for his adaptation of Danny the Champion of the World.

George is the greatest family entertainment for all over 4s + well behaved grown ups - particularly non-grumpy grannies!

Provisional George Tour Schedule 2010/11

11 – 13 March: Marina Theatre Lowestoft
23 – 27 March: Princess Theatre Torquay
30 March – 3Apr: Regent Theatre Stoke on Trent
6 – 10 April: Lyceum Theatre Sheffield
13 – 17 Apr: Civic Theatre Chelmsford
27 Apr – 1 May: Theatre Royal Lincoln
12 – 15 May: Octagon Theatre, Yeovil
19 - 22 May: Watford Palace
25 – 29 May: New Theatre Hull
1 - 5 June: Churchill Theatre Bromley
8 – 12 June: Ambassadors Theatre Woking
15 – 19 June: Belgrade Theatre Coventry
22 - 26 June: Richmond Theatre
29 June – 3 July: Opera House Manchester
6 – 10 July: Milton Keynes Theatre
13 – 17 July: Mercury Theatre Colchester
20 - 24 July: Lighthouse Poole
27 – 31 July: Theatre Royal Glasgow
10 – 14 August: Oxford Playhouse
17 – 21 August: Grand Opera House York
24 -28 August: Jersey Opera House St Helier
2 – 4 Sept: Hippodrome Theatre Bristol
14 – 18 Sept: Taliesin Theatre Swansea
21 – 25 Sept: Theatre Royal Brighton
28 Sept – 2 Oct: Assembly Halls Tunbridge Wells
12 – 16 Oct: Orchard Theatre Dartford
19 – 23 Oct: Buxton Opera House
26 – 30 Oct: Civic Theatre Mansfield
2 – 6 Nov: Wyvern Theatre Swindon
9 – 13 Nov: Civic Theatre Darlington
16 – 20 Nov: Grand Theatre Blackpool
23 – 27 Nov: Theatr Brycheiniog Breacon
13 Dec – 15 Jan: Bloomsbury Theatre London
8 – 12 Feb 2011: Swan Theatre High Wycombe
15 – 19 Feb: New Wimbledon Theatre
22 – 26 Feb: New Theatre Cardiff
15 – 19 Mar: Alexandra Theatre Birmingham