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Thurs - Sat 7.30pm
Schools Matinee Fri 18 May 1.30pm

On your starting blocks!  Vamos Theatre presents its new touring production, Much Ado About Wenlock, a play about health, sports, a reforming doctor, and a runaway chicken!

In 1850, the Shropshire market town of Much Wenlock hosted its very own ‘Olympian Games’, an inspiration for the modern Games.  In a captivatingly comic production celebrating the Games’ unlikely UK roots, Much Ado About Wenlock reveals a local doctor’s determination to improve the health of all.  Will Dr Penny Brookes inspire the workers to swap tipple for triple jumping?  Will schoolmistress Beatty win over the cynical Reverend Benedict Wayne?  Will little Eddie Sankey triumph over the bullying butcher’s boy, Archibald Blockley?  And will our national love of the underdog be satisfied in this heroic piece of theatre?

A glorious full mask show, with original music, physicality, and choreography, Much Ado About Wenlock is an adventure for audiences from 8 to 108!

www.vamostheatre.co.uk

Vamos Theatre’s Nursing Lives played Exeter Northcott in Autumn 2010, and was also widely acclaimed.

This is theatre as theatre should be - entertaining, uplifting, funny, moving and wonderfully inventive… A truly magical piece of full-mask theatre… a must-see show.”
HEREFORD TIMES

The magic of Rachael Savage’s production is that it creates such a vivid world without voice and words.”
THE GUARDIAN

Spellbinding and expressive.”
THE STAGE

Click below to enjoy the wonderful trailer!

Age: 8yrs+

Running Time: 1hr 50mins

Post Show Talks: Thurs 17 May & Fri 18 May (Schools Matinee)