Season Highlights
The Firework Maker’s Daughter
25 May 2013 7:30 PM
Buxton Opera House
Based on the story by Philip Pullman
Lila desperately wants to be a Firework-Maker like her father, but when he refuses to teach her, she runs away from home to discover the three gifts of firework making for herself. With the help of her friends, Chulak and Hamlet the love-sick elephant, Lila faces pirates, tigers and the terrifying Fire-Fiend…
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The Count of Monte Cristo
25 May 2013 7:30 PM
Pavilion Arts Centre Studio
‘Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes…’
When three jealous conspirators fraternise with corrupt council, Edmund Dantès finds himself wrongfully imprisoned within an impenetrable fortress, the infamous prison Château D’if.
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Great Expectations (12A)
26 May 2013 7:30 PM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Helena Bonham Carter stars in the latest big screen adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. Young orphan Pip helps escaped convict evade the law before his life changes forever. To see a trailer for the film, click here
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