Squishy, disgusting and explosive science comes to York!

HORRIBLE SCIENCE – science with all the squishy, disgusting & explosive bits left in – comes to the Grand Opera House York for the first time in September!

Birmingham Stage Company, producers of six hugely popular Horrible Histories shows, will next year be 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. Horrible Science is at Grand Opera House York from 21 to 25 September Using actors and some amazing 3D Bogglevision special effects, BSC’s new incredibly squishy Horrible Science show, adapted for the stage by Mark Williams, attempts to find the awful answers to such important questions 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 orange juice? 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! The audience will join Billy Miller, a recalcitrant 10-year-old, as he battles his way through the Horrible Science World, facing dreadful dangers and putrid puns! They’ll encounter fatal forces such as gravity and magnetism; discover the shocking truth about electricity, how bacteria and microbe monsters inflict their killer diseases and how the different parts of the body fit together. Horrible Science is directed by Phil Clark with designs by Jacqueline Trousdale and a cast including: Laura Dalgleish, Benedict Martin and Gareth Warren. 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, 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! Box office 0844 847 2322 Or online at www.grandoperahouseyork.org.uk For more information on the production see www.birminghamstage.com Or contact Celestine Dubruel on 01904 678711 email: celestinedubruel@theambassadors.com Performances: Tue 7pm, Wed & Thu 10.30am & 1.30pm, Fri 7.00pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.00pm Tickets: £11.50, £13.50, £15.50