Riding Lights Theatre Company presents

THREE CHEERS FORCHRISTMAS!

with stories from Nigel Forde, Paul Birch and Rebecca Thomson

Celebrate the original Christmas story with three spectacular tales from Riding Lights Theatre Company.

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Touring the UK from the 26 November to 21 December the Riding Lights story-tellers will bring three outlandish characters and their amazing animals to venues around the UK. They promise to lift your spirits and drop your jaws just in time for Christmas!

With characteristic humour, warmth and a spot of festive chaos, Three Cheers For Christmas bursts onto the stage this winter.

An unexpected invite to a hum-dinging party teaches The Sheepish Shepherd that being different isn’t always a bad thing. There’s comic chaos in Angel Unawares when dastardly duo Max and Tich are sent to hunt down a very special baby and A Very Astonished Astronomer discovers what makes the world go around in Zooming in to Christmas.

Woven together with puppetry, music, comic silliness and plenty of interactivity for younger members of the audience, this colourful cloth of yuletide yarns offers a brilliant background to the heart of Christmas.

The performance lasts approximately one hour and is recommended for children aged 5 to 11 and their families. Tickets are £[PRICE] from [BOX OFFICE NUMEBR]

Visit www.ridinglights.org/three-cheers for a full tour schedule, information and online booking.

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Notes to Editors.

Interviews with members of the cast can be arranged.

Photographers and reporters are invited to come along to the performances.

Riding Lights is a professional theatre company based at Friargate Theatre in York. The company produces new and classic plays, satirical revues, and musicals which tour to theatres and other venues, both large and small, across the country. We have been touring original, highly entertaining Christmas plays for family audiences and primary schools since 1977.

In addition to its professional touring productions, the Company runs four youth theatres in York, including one for young people with special and additional needs, and an annual residential Summer Theatre School for anyone aged 14 and over, held in York for a week at the start of the summer holidays.

For more information visit www.ridinglights.org

Media Contact:

Beth Richardson

press@rltc.org01904 655317

Riding Lights Theatre CompanyFriargate TheatreLower FriargateYork, YO1 9SL

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