{"id":3256,"date":"2011-08-22T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2011-08-22T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:31:09","slug":"beware-ruthless-romans-and-awful-egyptians-are-storming-the-grand-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/08\/beware-ruthless-romans-and-awful-egyptians-are-storming-the-grand-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware! Ruthless Romans and Awful Egyptians are storming The Grand Opera House!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Birmingham Stage Company<\/strong>\u2019s productions of Horrible Histories<\/em><\/strong> – Ruthless Romans<\/em><\/strong> and Awful Egyptians<\/em> <\/strong>are currently on an invasion tour and will arrive at The Grand Opera House<\/strong> on, Tuesday 20 September until Saturday 24 September. Real Life actors and amazing Bogglevision 3D effects, help the audience to experience life in Roman Times or Ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n

Families must not miss out on this awful <\/em>chance to travel back in time. Treat your whole family to a great show \u2013 both funny and historically informative and discover all the really \u2018yucky\u2019 bits of history that teachers and serious<\/em> books never tell you!<\/p>\n

The shows can be enjoyed by everyone from 5 to 105, but don\u2019t forget your Mummy!<\/p>\n

These two shows are adapted from Terry Deary\u2019s best selling Horrible Histories books which are currently in its second series on BBC TV.<\/p>\n

In Ruthless Romans<\/em><\/strong> you\u2019ll find out how the Romans made murder into a sport in the Colosseum with more fouls than a Premiership football match! You\u2019ll see eight evil emperors, killer kings, gory gladiators and grim ghouls! With incredible Bogglevision effects you\u2019ll feel what it was really like to be a Roman soldier. See him fighting in the greatest army ever seen, witnessing fierce battles against hordes of grotty Celts \u2013 but watch out for those flaming arrows whizzing straight for your head!<\/p>\n

In Awful Egyptians<\/em><\/strong> you\u2019ll learn the truth of Tutankhamun and his creepy curse and find out the fearsome facts about ph<\/em>abulous pharaohs, mean mummies and gruesome grave robbers. You\u2019ll see how the Egyptians really lived 5000 years ago \u2013 how dead bodies were turned into mummies and how the huge pyramids were built.\u00a0 Dare you enter through the Gates of the Afterlife? Beware the Evil Eye of Horus – has it got its eye on you?<\/p>\n

Birmingham Stage Company<\/strong> are well known for their great stage versions of children\u2019s classics many such as The Jungle Book, Tom\u2019s Midnight Garden, Kensuke\u2019s Kingdom and many Roald Dahl adaptations including Danny the Champion of the World and most recently George\u2019s Marvellous Medicine have played at the Grand Opera House<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

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Horrible Histories<\/em><\/strong> Rotten Romadn and Awful Egyptians <\/em><\/strong>is on at the Grand Opera House<\/strong> from Tuesday 20 until Saturday 24 September. All shows cost \u00a315.00 with special discounts if tickets for both shows are purchased. Contact the box office on 028 9024 1919, online at www.goh.co.uk<\/a> or visit the ticket desk in the Theatre foyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birmingham Stage Company\u2019s productions of Horrible Histories – Ruthless Romans and Awful Egyptians are currently on an invasion tour and will arrive at The Grand Opera House on, Tuesday 20 September until Saturday 24 September. Real Life actors and amazing Bogglevision 3D effects, help the audience to experience life in Roman Times or Ancient Egypt. … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}