CHILDREN'S: 3D fun with 'Horrible' stories
CHILDREN who prefer fact to fiction will be delighted with Terry Deary's Horrible Histories, which has just started on CBBC.
Now, they can also be part of the live 3D action when Horrible Histories comes to Worthing's Pavilion Theatre from June 2.
Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War and Woeful Second World War use just four actors and amazing 3D Bogglevision effects to bring the reality of warfare to life for young theatre audiences.
Frightful First World War tells the story of 13-year-old Angelica Taylor, who gets sucked into the Horrible Histories website until she has travelled through the five years of the First World War.
The audience will experience in 3D the sinking of the Lusitania, trench rats jumping into the auditorium and tanks rumbling into the stalls, blasting the audience.
Children will also get a flavour of what it was like to go "over the top", facing a hailstorm of bullets and mortars in no-man's-land, as well as confronting courts martial and greeting the ghosts.
Woeful Second World War is about Alf and Sally, who get evacuated to darkest Wales, away from the damp shelters and nightly bombings of their home city – only to encounter rotten rations, scary schools and even scarier new parents.
German bombers making their deadly journey towards Coventry will be witnessed in 3D.
During the last three years, the Birmingham Stage Company have triumphed in theatres with versions of four of Terry Deary's hugely-successful Horrible Histories books – the Tudors, Victorians, Egyptians and Romans.
This year's shows are filled with excitement, danger and even a few jokes, giving all ages a new insight into the troubles and hardships faced by ordinary people in both conflicts.
Horrible Histories runs from Tuesday, June 2, to Saturday, June 6.
Frightful First World War (for ages 11 and over) is June 2, at 7pm, June 3, at 10.30am, June 4, at 1.30pm, June 5, at 10.30am and June 6, at 7pm.
Woeful Second World War (for ages six and over) June 3, at 1.30pm, June 4 at 10.30am, June 5 at 7pm and June 6 at 2.30pm.
Tickets 11 adult, 9 child, schools and groups of 10 or more 7.50, family of four 38.
Visit www.worthingtheatres.co.uk or call the box office on 01903 206206.
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