Brock`s Mill Tickets and Hotel

The Show
'Please don't do that.

Address anything difficult to a stuffed animal.

'Forty years ago, Bluebell Studios was the heartbeat to a nation's childhood, the home-workshop where Bernard painstakingly animated the inanimate, bringing iconic children's television to life, frame by careful frame.

His wife Annie sewed the costumes - waistcoats for badgers, a hat for Mirabel the tortoise - while their daughter May played out in the sunshine.

Or maybe that's just how Bernard remembers it.

These days, the workshop is a mausoleum to his career in make-believe.

In the rafters, a homespun puppet slumps in enforced hibernation.

Shelves are stuffed with armatures, old scripts, boxes, dusty books, models.

Bernard's alone, his life in aspic - but soon, the past will have to be unpacked.

Because May is all grown up, and she has questions.

A reckoning is coming.

Former Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the National Theatre, Rufus Norris directs RSC Writer-in-Residence Stewart Pringle's acutely observed, poignant new family drama.

A homage to the craft of stop-motion film-making and an exploration of the corrosive power of nostalgia, Brock's Mill investigates the ownership of memory and the importance of being present.

Captioned:

• Tuesday, 1st June, 7:30pm

Audio Described:

• Thursday, 3rd June, 7:30pm

BSL:

• Tuesday, 25th May, 7:30pm

Chilled:

• Saturday, 29th May, 2:30pm

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