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THE PLAYS

Terry Deary is an actor so he has adapted his own books as plays.

• "Horrible Histories - The Mad Millennium" broke box-office records when it opened at Cardiff's Sherman Theatre in Summer 1999.

• "Crackers Christmas", based on Terry's "Horrible Christmas Book" ran at the Sherman in December 2000. In 2002 Terry revived the play in a version for Barrow-in-Furness. Terry starred in that production himself.

• "Wild Wales" was performed as a reading at the Sherman in 2001 and in 2008 we are looking at developing this into a tour of Wales under the title "Twisted Tales of Wales"

Birmingham Stage Company Productions

• "Terrible Tudors" and "Vile Victorians" will be visiting theatres around Britain in 2008 in a spectacular production from Birmingham Stage Company. These p[lays were written by Terry and proved a massive hit in their 2006 tour.

• In 2007 the toured two new plays "The Ruthless Romans" and "The Awful Egyptians" (scripts not written by Terry this time)

• Go to http://www.birminghamstage.net and click on their "Forthcoming productions" page to see if Terry's plays will be coming to a theatre near you.

• For 2009 Terry will be writing two completely new plays for Birmingham Stage Company to tour round Britain; they will be "Horrible Histories - The Blitzed Brits" and "Horrible Histories - The Frightful First World War"

We've given you a few pages of Terry's Christmas play, in a file you can download below, and full copies are available on request.

You can also read "Horrible Histories - Mad Millennium" or the "Horrible Christmas" book.

"CRACKERS CHRISTMAS" - A SAMPLE

What's it about? Here's how the Crackers Christmas story starts. Take your seats in the theatre - stop coughing and stop rustling those rotten sweet wrappers or you'll be thrown out!!!

Now ... are you sitting comfortably? The scene is an ordinary living room in an ordinary house in an ordinary town on Christmas Eve. In the house lives Watson Williams and it is Watson who tells us this terrific tale ...

DOWNLOAD FILE, SUPER SAMPLE - CRACKERS CHRISTMAS"
This is the Crackers Christmas sample in Acrobat PDF format. It can be viewed and printed on a wide variety of computers.		Many computers view PDF files without any problem, but if yours can't you need to download Adobe's FREE acrobat reader program.

If that little sample caught your attention, and you might like to stage the play yourself, you can obtain copies of the full script... so why not contact us?