An audio experience of Alphabetti Theatre & Woven Nest's 2020 festive family production.

Premiered: Monday 21st December at 12:00pm 
Tickets: Donate if you can Booking NOT essential
Age recommendation: Suitable for all the family 
Running time: 55 mins

Love and magic is being sucked out of our world.
Can you help us, find out how and why and SAVE Christmas?

Alphabetti Theatre and Woven Nest present a new Christmas show for you to enjoy online. Originally intended for single household performances the team have adapted to bring you something really special online. Created by Alphabetti’s award-winning Artistic / Executive Director (Ali Pritchard) comes a mesmerizing show created for these unfamiliar times. Despite the global pandemic production partners Woven Nest have been running workshops outside, online and anyway they can with West Rainton Primary School, Springfield Lodge Care Home, Carr Hill Community Primary School, and Hotspur Primary School to devise details and colour that writer Ali Pritchard has weaved into a script. With a villain who only eats raw turnips and rat stew – subsequently needing to douse themselves in sickly-sweet tropical perfume to her invisible gargoyle subordinates; this is a online production suitable for all the family.
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Written by Ali Pritchard
Story & Characters ideas by participants from West Rainton Primary School, Springfield Lodge Care Home, Carr Hill Community Primary School, St Mark's Court Care Home & Hotspur Primary School
Workshops run by Woven Nest
Performed by Diji Solanke
Directed by Ali Pritchard
Assistant Directors: Olivia Hunt & Poppy Crawshaw
Designed by Molly Barrett
Assistant designer Anna Robinson
Set built by James Pickering & Dan Brown
Lighting design by Dan Saggars
Videographer Jacob Garthwaite
Composer / Sound designer Wilf Stone
Automata designer/technician Rachel Glover
Produced by Esther Fearn & Ali Pritchard
Stage managers Becky Glendenning-Laycock, Andrea Scrimshaw & Rachel Glover
Creative runner Izaak Gledhill
Pre-recorded Wanda Judi Earl
Pre-recorded Gary The Gargoyle Steve Byron
Gargoyle maker Nicole Freeman
Hessian Assistants Tommy Tyler & Eilis McGowan
Stop Motion by Steve Byron
Captions & Audio description by Matt Jamie
With Thanks to Open Clasp, Northern Stage, Live Theatre, Dance City, Durham Gala Theatre, Cap-a-pie & Curious Monkey
Funded by Arts Council England