IT’S great to see village halls offering a little Christmas magic on the doorstep for local children and their families to enjoy.

The Mice Who Ate Christmas is a fictional story of how the hymn, Silent Night came to be written by a couple of mice in a village church.

Badapple Theatre Company director, Kate Bramley, has remixed a bed time story for a young mouse that comes to life as a charming piece of theatre with original songs and music written by North East folk guru, Jez Lowe, and starring Zoe Land and Mark McLaughlin.

It’s 1818 and Edna and Wilbur are having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit – that’s because they are two particularly hungry village mice, who find themselves on an extraordinary winter journey as they set sail for Switzerland’s Land of Cheese. This Land of Cheese is a mythical place where the streets are paved with cheese, the rivers run brimful of chocolate and the mountains are made of Toblerone!

Sheltering in a village church on Christmas Eve, the hungry mice eat through the church organ bellows by mistake, leaving the kindly young priest without a note of music for Midnight Mass.

Edna and Wilbur have to hurry to make amends, and in doing so inspire the writing of a brand new Christmas carol.

The Mice Who Ate Christmas will take place on Saturday, November 29, at Kirkby Fleetham Village Hall.

To purchase tickets, call: 01423-339168

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The full tour schedule is available at: badappletheatre.com