MEDIA RELEASE COURTESY OF: BIRMINGHAM STAGE COMPANY

Why not treat your kids to some horrible science fun this Easter holidays?

Science with all the squishy, disgusting & explosive bits left in – comes to the stage in High Wycombe & Bradford for the first time next month!

Birmingham Stage Company, producers of six hugely popular Horrible Histories shows, have just begun touring an exciting new production based on the popular Horrible Science books by Nick Arnold illustrated by Tony De Saulles.

These books have sold over 10 million copies in 38 different languages world wide and won such important scientific awards as the Rhone-Poulenc Prize in 1997 and the Aventis Prize in 2004.

During the Easter holidays the show will play at The Swan Theatre High Wycombe 7 – 10 April and Alhambra Theatre Bradford 13 – 17 April so kids ages 6+ and their families can enjoy a whole lot of squishy adventures in Horrible Science world with reluctant school boy hero, Billy Miller.

With their help he has to battle his way through many different science areas facing both dreadful dangers and putrid puns! Together they’ll encounter fatal forces such as gravity, electricity and magnetism.

They’ll learn how to defeat some menacing 6ft high bacteria and other microbe monsters who want to inflict their killer diseases on humans and they’ll show Baron Frankenstein how the different parts of the body fit together!

Using actors and amazing 3D Bogglevision special effects (created by Amazing Interactives), BSC’s new Horrible Science show, adapted for the stage by Mark Williams, attempts to find the awful answers to important questions such as why do we produce 50,000 litres of spit in a lifetime – enough to fill 100 baths? Can you fight deadly diseases and beastly bacteria just using an egg? Can you survive the Bathroom of Doom and the Toothbrush of Terror -when in just a few hours one bacterium can produce 100 million copies of itself to infect your towel, flannel, toothbrush and even your hands!

Horrible Science is suitable for all the family aged 6+ and covers much of the science curriculum that Key Stage 2 children have to learn but deals with these topics in such unusual and hilariously disgusting ways as to seem a million miles from the classroom!

Both those who already enjoy the subject and also the confirmed science haters will all find Horrible Science is unlike any theatre production they have ever seen before – a hugely fun way to learn important new things!

This astounding show will thrill you and your children – you’ll be laughing & groaning at the jokes then gasping at the special effects that seem to send giant bacteria and disgusting blobby things straight at your head, while all the time you’ll be painlessly learning many more scientific facts than you knew before!

So book your tickets today for a truly HORRIBLE experience!

Horrible Science 2010 Tour

8 – 10 March: Hexagon Reading
11 – 13 March: Theatre Royal Winchester
14 – 16 March: Palace Theatre Mansfield
23 – 27 March: Grand Theatre Blackpool
7 – 10 April: Swan Theatre High Wycombe
13 – 17 April: Bradford Alhambra
20 – 24 April: Orchard Theatre Dartford
10 – 14 May: Jersey Opera Hse., St Helier
18 – 22 May: Leicester Curve
27 – 29 May: Plymouth Pavilions
1 – 5 June: Derngate Northampton
8 – 12 June: Empire Theatre Sunderland
15 – 19 June: Lyceum Theatre Sheffield
23 -26 June: Grimsby Auditorium
29 June – 3 July: New Theatre Oxford
6 – 10 July: Alexandra Theatre Birmingham
21 – 25 Sept: Grand Opera Hse York
28 Sept – 2 Oct: Connaught Theatre Worthing
5 – 16 Oct: UCL Bloomsbury Theatre London
19 – 23 Oct: Palace Theatre Manchester
26 – 30 Oct: Arts Theatre Cambridge
2 – 6 Nov: Floral Hall New Brighton nr Liverpool 08706 077560
9 – 13 Nov: Civic Theatre Chelmsford
16 – 20 Nov: Lighthouse Poole
30 Nov – 4 Dec: Theatr Hafren Newtown

For more information visit the Birmingham Stage website here.