Do you like your history dull and boring, dusty and uninteresting? Then DO NOT book for Horrible Histories at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne from 24th – 27th February! It is going to be packed with horrible facts, crazy costumes, jokes and songs a-plenty in a fast-paced, informative and very, very funny show.
It’s been 11 years since the acclaimed Birmingham Stage Company first staged Horrible Histories and these latest productions, Groovy Greeks and Incredible Invaders, promise to be the biggest, nastiest and funniest shows yet!
With a brilliantly inventive digital backdrop and the fantastically clever Bogglevision 3D glasses, audiences will be ducking from sploshing mud, flying limbs, venomous snakes and rabid dogs as history comes to horrible life right in-front of them!
Incredible Invaders covers British history over a 1,000 year period from the Roman invasion at 43AD through until the rather unfortunate incident with King Harold and an arrow just up the road at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In the show we meet our heroine, ancient Briton Mavis as she tries to avoid a life of servitude to the Invading Romans, Saxons and Vikings.
In Groovy Greeks Terry Deary, author of the original books, directs proceedings as the voice of thunderclap-belting Zeus. The show takes a bewildered family through the main events on the mythological and actual timeline, from the Minotaur to the fall of Troy and the first ever Olympics – along with plenty of potty jokes, daft songs, amplified bodily functions which are sure to provide the younger audiences with a wealth of mirth all culminating in a boisterous version of Greece Has Got Talent for the Gods of Mount Olympus.
The original Terry Deary books were first published in 1993 and in addition to the stage versions there has also been a BAFTA award winning CBBC TV adaptation of the books.
Horrible Histories appears at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne from 24th to 27th February with Groovy Greeks on Wed at 10.30am, Thurs at 7pm, Fri at 10.30am and Sat at 7pm and Incredible Invaders on Wed at 1.30pm, Thurs at 10.30am, Fri at 7pm and Sat at 2.30pm. Joint saver ticket options and family ticket discounts are available so, to book and for more information, call the box office on 01323 412000 or go online at www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk.