Culture - it's not complicated!
Can you support your local venue this Christmas?
Let’s keep supporting culture this Christmas!
Hi all,
This will be our last newsletter until the new year and we wanted to send over a request. If you have the chance to buy tickets, gift voucher tickets, pop into your local cultural venue for a cuppa, please do.
Being local to Alnwick, Beth and I have spent countless hours inside the Alnwick Playhouse and Library this year. I have booked tickets as Christmas presents for things in 2025.
Beth likes to work at the hot desks in the library, I’ve run co-working sessions in the bar. I’ve taken my son to the cinema there, met friends for coffee, taken my daughter to see shows. I interviewed
for in the studio in February and watched speak about folklore and fairytale. You could have heard a pin drop in that audience.Last night, we were kindly gifted tickets to Alnwick Playhouse’s Christmas Show ‘Little Red Riding Hood - A Trial.’ We gladly went along to see the show with our families who were thoroughly entertained throughout.
I loved the funny songs the most and doing dancing - L, age 3.
About the show
Little Red Riding Hood: A Trial!
An Alnwick Playhouse and Tortive Theatre production.
Are you all ready for the story of Little Red Riding Hood?
Prepare yourself for a unique spin on the beloved tale in this magical madcap retelling of the classic fairytale.
En route to her Gran’s house, a young girl unexpectedly crosses paths with a very smelly, very hairy and very hungry wolf. The crafty creature tricks both the red hooded child and her grandmother resulting in the wolf eating Red’s Gran!!!!!.
This reimagining puts the smelly old Wolf on trial, facing judgement for his alleged granny munching misdeeds.
But is he really such a big, bad wolf? Can the accused sweet-talk his way out of trouble? Is Little Red really all sugar and sweet niceness? Is Grannie really fully digested? Where is the wood cutter when you need him?
You decide in this chaotic courtroom crash…
Ideal for the whole family to sink their teeth into, it is also a funny and pythonesque treat for adults too. A tale that is both familiar and refreshingly wild.
SCHOOLS
Monday 16th December 9.15am
Monday 16th December 11am
Monday 16th December 2pm
Wednesday 18th December 9.15am
Wednesday 18th December 11am
Wednesday 18th December 2pm
£10 Standard Ticket
PUBLIC
Thursday 12th December 5pm
Saturday 21st December 2pm
Saturday 21st December 5pm
Tuesday 24th December 2pm
Tuesday 24th December 5pm
Thursday 26th December 4pm
Saturday 28th December 2pm (BSL & Relaxed Performance)
Saturday 28th December 5pm
Monday 30th December 2pm
Monday 30th December 5pm
£15 Standard Ticket | £12 Child Ticket
It was amazing to see two actors play all the parts and the surprise basket was so funny. I loved the voices and the wolf was so funny. L aged 10.
Judge Fudge was very funny, I liked the pig too! Oh and I wanted the wolf to win. P, aged 8.
The singing was the best bit. L, aged 4.
I really liked the wolf and how they changed characters. Very clever! C, aged 11.
PS -
returns 28 Feb - 3 March 2025. Book your tickets here. They make great gifts!! 🎁
