Mercury Voices: Break A Leg

Mercury Youth Theatres have been using material from the Mercury Voices archives as a starting point to devise a short performance.

There’s a new theatre in town and it’s called the… well, there isn’t a name for it yet. So the team go to the public for inspiration. However, there’s a more worrying problem. Their very first play is on, and it’s the fun-for-all-the-family pantomime of Aladdin. But there’s a bug going round, and the Genie isn’t looking as jolly as he’s meant to…

Mercury Voices is a two-year project to catalogue fascinating artefacts that tell the story of the history of the Mercury Theatre.