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Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain (4 stars)

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We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare yourselves for Horrible Histories live on stage! Have you ever wondered why the Romans never won MasterChef? What if a Viking moved in next door? Has William Wallace met his match? Would you lose your heart or head to Henry VIII? Will Parliament survive gunpowder Guy? Escape the clutches of Burke and Hare and find out what a baby farmer did! Don't miss this horrible history of Britain with the nasty bits left in! All ages.

Birmingham Stage Company.

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Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain

12 Aug 20124 stars

Gruesomely entertaining alternative history lesson

The history of these islands is littered with enough corpses to fill a month’s worth of Fringe shows, so hats off to Birmingham Stage Company for managing to pack so much blood and gore into a bare hour. Terry Deary’s deliciously gruesome book…

Horrible Histories' Barmy Britain comes to 2012 Edinburgh Fringe

11 Jul 2012

Terry Deary praises Birmingham Theatre adaptation of his hit series

Talky Terry Deary is in a brilliantly bolshy mood. For sure, the Horrible Histories creator is excited about the Edinburgh production of Barmy Britain, a new adaptation of some of the true tales from his children’s books. But as for other outposts of…

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