The Flint Street Nativity, by Tim Firth (who is probably best known for writing Calendar Girls), was originally a TV comedy produced for Yorkshire Television that aired during Christmas 1999. Tim rewrote the play and added music for a production at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2006, where it ran for two successive seasons to much critical acclaim, breaking box office records to become the theatre’s most successful Christmas show ever.

The action of the play begins as the young pupils of Flint Street Primary School, all played by adults, are about to perform their nativity play for their proud parents. All kinds of mishaps ensue, until the culmination during the final few scenes of the play when the focus shifts and the children become their parents!

The Flint Street Nativity only recently became available for amateur groups to perform and we believe that our production of it will be the first to be staged in the local area. This warm, witty and funny play is a great alternative to the usual Christmas fare, with new lyrics set to the tunes of old Christmas carols. It is to be directed by an enthusiastic Gerry Rhodes, making a welcome directorial return to Circle 67.

The casting reading is on Monday 12th September, at 7.30pm, in Bramfield Village Hall: come along for a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie to get you early into the Christmas spirit.

Performances will be at The Cut in Halesworth on the evenings of Friday 13th & Saturday 14th January 2012, with a matinee also on the Saturday.

A cast of fairly young adults, who could feasibly have children of primary school age, is needed.

For further details, or if you would like to be involved but cannot make it to the reading, please contact us.