Exciting new Christmas show in a 100 year old Mirror Tent!
25th September 2008
Han’s Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales
25 November 2008 – 17 January 2009
A fairytale Christmas is on the way as Oxford’s leading theatre company announces its latest show. Following its open-air summer season, Creation Theatre Company’s Christmas show this year will be, Hans Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales performedin the beautiful 100-year old Mirror Tent (Spiegeltent) at BMW Group Plant Oxford from 25 November 2008 until 17 January 2009.
After the sell-out success of the company’s Tales from the Brothers Grimm last year this new show, the company’s fourth Christmas production in the tent, will again be performed ‘in the round’, with the action taking place on a circular stage in the centre of this amazingly opulent and unusual structure. The cabaret-style seating allows the audience to sit at small individual candle-lit tables to watch the performance, adding further to the spell-binding experience and audiences can also enjoy refreshments at their table before the show or in the interval.
This Christmas show promises to be a rollercoaster ride through some of Hans Andersen’s best-loved fairytales – including The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid and The Princess and the Pea – but told as you’ve never seen them before. The brand new script has been written by writer/actress, Lizzie Hopley, who wrote Creation’s hugely popular Christmas 2005 play, The Snow Queen, and most recently she also stepped in to save the show when the company’s leading actress fell ill and Lizzie took over the role of Beatrice at very short notice in Creation’s summer’s production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Oxford Castle. The velvet canopies, mirrored roof and ornate pillars and booths of the very special antique Mirror Tent will make the perfect setting for Han’s Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales, creating an enchanting ambience for these well-loved stories. Fantastic adventures, incredible characters, magical effects, laughter and song will all be served up in Creation Theatre Company’s unique and dynamic way.
David Parrish, Producer and Artistic Director of Creation Theatre Company said “We are delighted to be back for another show in the Mirror Tent. The tent is incredibly popular with our audiences and works beautifully with our innovative style of storytelling. Many families tell us that a trip to the Mirror Tent to see a Creation show is the highlight of their year, and we believe that this year’s will be our best Christmas show yet”
Tickets (which start at only £8.50) for Han’s Christian Andersen’s Magical Tales are on sale now from the Box Office on 01865 766266 or at www.creationtheatre.co.uk.