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FREE Tickets given away at Mercury
10 Mar 2009
Almost 300 young people have already signed up to the FREE theatre ticket scheme which the Mercury Theatre is participating in over the next two years.
The scheme is called A Night Less Ordinary and is aimed at increasing cultural opportunities for young people - giving away over 618,000 FREE Theatre tickets across the UK over the next two years to people under 26 years of age.
The Mercury Theatre will be giving away 2300 tickets to young people living and working in and around Colchester between February 2009 and March 2011.
Tickets are allocated on a first come first served basis to those who have signed up to the scheme via the Mercury website http://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/anightlessordinary.php
FREE tickets are available for many different productions over the next month including:
10, 11, 17, 18 March - Alan Ayckbourn’s bubbling and witty comedy A Chorus of Disapproval
24 and 25 March - Blonde Bombshells of 1943 – sell-out West End musical set in the 40s
4 April - Maresa Von Stockert premiers a new physical dance theatre show T[r]apped
11 April - Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning novel Private Peaceful is staged
18, 21, 22, 18 and 30 April – Martin McDonagh’s (writer of In Bruges) hilarious dark comedy about two bickering brothers in Ireland - A Lonesome West