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Professional touring programme.

Listed below are all our external shows (or professional bookings) which range from children's productions to full scale musicals. To find out more and book tickets, just click on the show title.

	Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You Thursday 22 September 2011 7.30pm Theatre How does it feel to have your world blown apart? Britain is booming and Molly moves to London from deepest Cornwall full of naive dreams, high hopes and on a quest to make her life just like the movies. Then on 7/7/2005, she finds herself on an underground train blown up by terrorists and her life is forced to take a different direction. Funny, frank and poetic; this is the true story...
	Delete The Banjax: Pigs & Ponies Friday 30 September 2011 7.30pm Sketch Comedy Award-winning sketch comedy group, Delete the Banjax, return to Edinburgh with their fourth Fringe Festival show: Pigs and Ponies. Audiences should not expect pigs or ponies, but can look forward to an hour of fast-paced sketches, surreal characters, animated capers and jolly songs all performed in Delete the Banjax’s trademark charmingly chaotic style.
	Oh! What A Lovely War Monday 3 October 2011 7.30pm Musical Theatre Over ninety years on from the Armistice, Oh What A Lovely War remains a classic of the modern theatre and a powerful reminder of the atrocities of a war that cost twenty million lives. Told through the songs and documents of the period, it’s a satirical attack on the military incompetence and inconceivable disregard for human life the First World War has come to represent and a...
	The Zanniskinheads & The Quest For The Holy Balls Thursday 11 October 2011 4.45pm Commedia dell'arte Theatre Young International theatre company *Slingshot* give Commedia dell’Arte a 21st century face-lift with their hilarious & raucous new mutli-lingual masked comedy: The Zanniskinheads and the Quest for the Holy Balls. Loud, rude, joyous, irreverent, violent & triumphant: a must see in 2011. Meet Peenut & Ribbòn, two hardcore members of a modern social phenomenon: the...
	The Snow Dog Friday 21 October 2011 6.00pm Children's Theatre Get swept along in the adventure as a young girl’s favourite toy comes to life. Admire the beauty and intelligence of the husky; wolf-like and wise. Enjoy the fantasy as girl and dog discover a wild world where dangers wait for human and animal alike.For this young girl, the gift of a toy dog from her grandfather starts a journey that will eventually help her answer the biggest question...
	Camp Rock: The Musical Friday 28 - Saturday 29 October 2011 7.30pm Musical Theatre Rare Productions return to Bedford Theatre with Disney's 'Camp Rock: The Musical! More copy to come...
	Those Magnificent Men Tuesday 1 November 2011 7.30pm Theatre 'Extra, extra! £10,000 prize for the first transatlantic flight!' Chocks Away! for the hilarious, heart-stopping story of Alcock and Brown and the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight. By any standards, it’s a classic tale of plucky British pioneers – Captain John Alcock, dashing WW1 fighter pilot, and Lieutenant Arthur Whittam Brown, navigational genius with a gammy leg...
	Sherlock Holmes... the Death & Life Saturday 3 December 2011 7.30pm Theatre In this wryly humorous tale of murder, mystery & the occult.....’ the world's greatest detective refuses to leave the stage !’ ‘ A fantasy based upon a fiction’ , finds Conan Doyle tiring of his ‘intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes’, and inventing the arch villain, Moriarty, to dispose of him. But Doyle's dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the...
	The Glenn Miller Mystery Thursday 15 December 2011 7.30pm Theatre Future Legend Theatre Company brings you its final performance of their hit chiller. Twinwood Airfield, Bedfordshire, December 15 1999. The setting: a damp and dreary dressing room. As a Frank Sinatra tribute artist prepares for his final performance, a stranger enters dressed in U.S. Military uniform... However, something is wrong... a disturbing truth is about to be revealed...
	Spitfire Solo Friday 16 December 2011 7.30pm Theatre Peter was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Now he flies solo in a retirement home. He misses his wife and his independence. He remembers the seemingly limitless blue skies over Kent, the courage of fallen comrades and his mistress - the Spitfire. Struggling to write his will, an unexpected visitor arrives with dramatic news which turns his life upside down...