Great news for families in the new Lawrence Batley theatre season.
And that’s before we’ve even polished off the current run of programming.
The imagine series continues to be on of the Huddersfield theatre’s biggest success stories.
The shows are held once a month on a Saturday and offer a great way into the theatre going habit for families with young children.
The shows are, after all, pure delight. Sit down with your children and watch as they are transported to worlds full of magic and imagination.
The Imagine series brings some top quality children’s theatre companies to Huddersfield. These are performers with stories to tell, music to play and young minds to excite.
Try out that magical way to start your family weekend next week when Imagine favourites Blunderbus Theatre Company head back to Huddersfield.
The company will stage four shows at the LBT next Saturday and Sunday (11am and 2pm).
They will be telling the story of Dotty the Dragon.
It’s an outdoor performance in the theatre’s Courtyard space and is packed with puppets and live music.
The show is the last of the current season. But there’s a whole batch of other shows round the corner just waiting for everyone to get back from their holidays.
But first, there’s Dotty, a baby fire dragon who lives at the top of a mountain with her grumpy dad, Mr Dragon.
In the village below, everyone fears for their lives, for dragon’s eat children! Or so they believe.
But Dotty would never eat children! Not ever. She’s a vegetarian .
One day, as she watches the children playing, she decides to join them. What could go wrong? Everyone loves surprises, don’t they?
The show has been adapted for the stage by Bill Davies, with music and lyrics by Frank Goodhind .
If you enjoyed last season’s, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark from the same company, then you are going to love this.
The new autumn season of Imagine kicks of in September and runs right through until January.
There is a whole clutch of stories, most of them classics that you will know well. And there’s also one of the popular hands on workshops which this time has LBT artist-in-residence Kim Searle there to help.
The Gingerbread Man, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and The Boy Who Cried Wolf are all stories that families will know and will enjoy getting re-acquainted with.
Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre is first in on September 14 and you’ve just got to join the Gingerbread Man to see if he can outwit the dastardly fox.
Garlic Theatre returns to tells us the story of the boy with magic at his fingertips in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (October 26) and there will be a big welcome too for Tutti Frutti, always popular and back with two shows.
First there’s that Boy Who Cried Wolf (November 30) plus this year’s Christmas show, Rapunzel. Both are by Mike Kenny, the award-winning writer behind last year’s LBT Christmas show Beauty and The Beast.
Birdsnest theatre sweeps in in early November with Blown Away, a story which promises to whisk children off an unforgettable journey and then in January, it’s story time around the kitchen table, quite literally with DNA Puppetry and visual Theatre’s Chicken Lickin. Sounds good.
Box office on 01484 430528 and they can confirm what age range shows are appropriate for.