The Natural History Museum’s highly anticipated touring theatre production, Dinosaurs Live!, opened at the weekend with its first performance at The Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare. Created in collaboration with Mark Thompson Productions, this is the Museum’s first-ever touring theatre which will be playing for a 60-date run throughout 2025.
The Dinosaurs Live! production will take theatre goers and dinosaur lovers on a fascinating journey to meet some of the extinct species from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods as they join Palaeontologist Dr Dina Rocks on a ‘roar-some’ adventure.
An accidental click of the wrong button on a surprise time machine sends Dr Dina Rocks and her volunteers on an exciting excursion and, with the help of the audience, they meet some incredible animatronic dinosaurs, including the spiky Stegosaurus, the enormous Diplodocus and the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. Find out more about the fascinating fossils which aided the discovery of dinosaurs and see firsthand just how our incredible planet has changed over the course of its several billion-year history.
A family adventure like no other, Mark Thompson Productions has worked closely with the Museum’s world-leading palaeontologists to develop the exciting show.
Maxine Lister, Head of Licensing at the Natural History Museum, said: “This is the first time since our Museum opened in 1881 that we have taken a theatrical production outside our iconic building and across the country. Our mission is to create advocates for the planet and inspire a love for the natural world in the whole family and what better way than taking the Museum’s world-leading research and bringing dinosaurs to life on stage. For history lovers of any age, it is certainly not one to miss.”
