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Theatre & Dance

Nikki & JD / Lost Dog present

Fireside

Thu 30 Oct 2025, 4.30pm

Outdoor Theatre, Highfields Park

£10

Concession prices available.

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Priority booking Wed 9 Jul, 11:00am

On general sale Wed 16 Jul, 11:00am

On general sale Wed 16 Jul, 11:00am

This event is sold out. Please contact our box office on 0115 846 7777 to be added to the waiting list.

Running time

45 minutes, no interval

Age range

Suitable for ages 5+

Coming soon
Sold out
Fireside has sold out

Priority booking Wed 9 Jul, 11:00am

On general sale Wed 16 Jul, 11:00am

On general sale Wed 16 Jul, 11:00am

This event is sold out. Please contact our box office on 0115 846 7777 to be added to the waiting list.

Gather around the fire and let us remind you of what it was to be afraid of the dark.

The award-winning circus company Nikki & JD in collaboration with Lost Dog have created an outdoor show that combines circus, dance, theatre and live music to re-enact the original horror story.

Dark, comic and physically dangerous this is a modern re-telling of that ancient epic: Beowulf.

Photo © Pablo Herrera Pérez

Production photos

An actor dressed in white talks to an audience standing and sitting around him
Four acrobats dressed in white outdoors in an evening climb on each other
an actor dressed in white wearing a mask upside down, with the light of a fire falling on her
A silhouette of an actor talking into a microphone with smoke around him

Watch the trailer...

Absolutely stunning, breathtaking acrobatics and skills and wonderfully witty humour."

Audience member

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