Coventry's Belgrade Theatre Announces Family Offerings for February

Families from across Coventry and Warwickshire can look forward to a bumper week of fun-packed entertainment this Half Term at the Belgrade Theatre with the arrival of new children's play, Only A Day from Sat 7 - Sat 21 Feb and the return of the Belgrade's popular February Half Term Camp.

Flying into B2 from Sat 7 - Sat 21 Feb, Only A Day is a funny, poignant and surprising play from the pen of acclaimed German children's author and illustrator Martin Baltscheit with translation by David Henry Wilson.

Directed by the Belgrade's multi award-winning Creative Associate, Tony Graham, one of Britain's leading directors of theatre for children and young people, this masterful story of the cycle of life and the power of friendship promises to be a theatrical highlight of the Belgrade's Spring Season.

A fox and a wild boar keep watch over the hatching of a mayfly. Aware that it lives for only a day, they are faced with a dilemma. Who cares about a mayfly anyway? But when they meet a beautiful flying insect, who has spent years preparing to hatch into the world, they have to think again. So begins a great adventure in which nothing will ever be the same.

Heading up the cast in the role of the mayfly is children's TV favourite, Dominique Jackson. A respected stage and television actress, Dominique is perhaps best known for playing emo teenager Lauren Valentine in the long-running Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks and Becky in the hit children's TV series Becky and Barnaby Bear. Other TV credits include Rosie Speedwell in The New Worst Witch (2005), Selena in My Parents Are Aliens, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Casualty, The Bill, Doctors and Conviction Little Britain. Completing the cast are Lowri Amies (Mayfly 2), Andrew Ashford (Boar) and Jacob James Beswick (Fox).

Only A Day features original composition by Martin Ward, whose credits include Will Tuckett's hugely popular production of The Wind In The Willows currently playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Set and Costume design is by Jason Southgate with Lighting Design by Adam Crosthwaite. The Movement Director is Lawrence Evans.

Only A Day will visit B2 from Sat 7 - Sat 21 February. Tickets are priced from £7.50 to £10. Family tickets are priced from £24 & £31. School tickets are priced at £6. Tickets are on sale now via the Belgrade Theatre Box Office on 024 7655 3055 or online at www.belgrade.co.uk where tickets are cheaper.

Budding young performers can look forward to a fun-packed Half Term of drama games and activities with the return of February Half Term Camp running from Mon 16 & Tues 17 February.

February Half Term Camp is open to ages 8 -16 years and offers the perfect way to keep the kids entertained during the half term holidays. No previous experience of drama is necessary to take part. Classes run between 10am - 4.30pm on both days.

The cost to take part in the Belgrade Theatre's February Half Term Camp is £50 per child. Family discounts are available if two or more siblings booked onto the same event, during the same term which include 20% off for two siblings, 25% off for three siblings and 30% off for four or more siblings. This discount only applies when booking over the phone or in person at Box Office.

Half Term Camp participants get 10% discount on Saturday Drama Classes in the following term.

Early drop off (from 8.45am) and late pick up (until 5.15pm) is available at an additional cost of £10 per person for 2 days.

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