and Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout toured a new production for young children in 2007 and 2008, entitledWedding Story’, written by Sara Clifford. Click here for a synopsis of this great new play...

Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout has been established for nearly thirty five years. It is one of the leading young peoples’ theatre companies in Britain.

‘Wedding Story’ is a play with music for young children (5 - 8 years old) and their parents. The production was designed for flexible touring and successfully toured Nottingham and Nottinghamshire schools in the summer of 2007. A further tour was launched in the spring and summer of 2008, touring England and Wales.

Click here to view the programme for our 2008 tour...

‘Wedding Story’ was the second co-production between and Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout. Their first co-production of The Gardener by Mike Kenny has toured to schools and venues throughout Britain including all the well known young peoples’ theatres. The Gardener featured for a month at The Unicorn Theatre in London in November 2006.

The production was directed by Andrew Breakwell and designed by Jane Linz Roberts, with live accordion music composed by Nigel Waterhouse and played by Nigel and Frank Bozac.

The production was supported by Arts Council England.

Government statistics show that currently 47% of young children have to cope with major changes in their immediate family group. We wanted to explore the ways in which young children deal with this experience.