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24 December 2008 Meet Cinderella in a Suitcase at Snibston Century Theatre

Do you like happy endings? Do you like stories with a twist, full of originality and invention? Get yourself along to Snibston where traditional fun for all the family awaits you as a unique and entertaining puppet pantomime takes to the stage of the Century Theatre.

If you are full of Christmas pudding, why not get up and about and visit the amusing Bill Brookman pantomime. You will be amazed and amused at the variety on show with music, magic, songs and jokes in an exquisite and beautiful re-telling of the Cinderella story.   

Saturday 27 December. Show starts at 2pm. All tickets £3.50

For booking call 01509 236 175 or 01530 278 444 or email 106440.407@compuserve.com or snibston@leics.gov.uk

Century Cinema, Snibston Discovery Park, Ashby Road, Coalville LE67 3LN

www.centurytheatre.co.uk

Snibston is offering free child entry to the museum from December 27th to 31st, with only a small charge for the activities, including Llama trekking. Snibston will be closed from January 1 to 16 for essential maintenance and training and will re-open on Saturday 17 January.

For more information and to pre-book the activities please contact Snibston on 01530 278 444 or email snibston@leics.gov.uk

Keep your eye on the website for details at: www.snibston.com

Notes to Editor:

www.billbrookman.co.uk

Bill Brookman and Friends are a unique collection of performers, artists, dancers and musicians of all ages who perform celebratory street theatre, circus arts, puppetry, music and dance. They perform throughout Britain and beyond.

Bill Brookman has worked across the entire spectrum of the performing arts, from beginnings as a musician with the London School of Contemporary Dance to building a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre for the Festival of London 1988. He was Special Assistant to Yuri Lyubimov, the renowned Russian theatre director, in the mammoth world tour of his “Hamlet” in 1986. His film credits include “Morons from Outer Space” and he appears on British children’s television. Recent tours have included Japan (10 times), the USA (6 times) and Russia (3 times). He was, for 6 years, been a Guest International Artist with the National Circus Project of America on tours funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), New York State funding and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Bill Brookman has been continuously involved with projects on human deprivation from the 1980s UK riots in Toxteth and Brixton to consultant to the UN developing theatre techniques for arms collection in 2005.

In recent years Bill has been concentrating on large projects in the UK and abroad. In 1999 he was director of Birmingham’s Christmas light switch-on with Sir Cliff Richard. In 2000 he directed 2 productions at the Millennium Dome as well as performances for 10,000 children for Easington Borough Council. In 2003 he directed an arts festival in Kosovo with the United Nations in front of 3,000. He organised a huge fire festival with war-amputees in Sierra Leone in 2006

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