Good News for January!
Greetings and Happy New Year from Kate and the team at Badapple Theatre. I realise we are conventionally a little late with our New Year salutations but we were waiting on the final details of a few very exciting pieces of good news to kick off 2026 with a spring in our step.
We are thrilled to announce the support of major events company Presentation Design Services for our 2026 pantomime. The team at PDS in Derby have offered to build our complete set FOR FREE in support of our grassroots work.
Read a bit more about our amazing partners:
“We are Presentation Design Services (‘PDS’ to our friends!/better known as ‘PDS’), an event production company operating for 20 years across a broad spectrum of live events, activations, theatre production, conferences, exhibitions, and experiential installations.
Our attitude is that, under most circumstances, we will find a way – whatever it is you need and however fast you need it. Whether that’s an immersive pop-up treehouse experience on the treeless banks of London’s Thames, or a giant compound curved archway covered in real plants for a global conference, we’ll make it happen.
When high street brand ‘LUSH’ wanted to give guests hot air balloon rides 30m in the air inside Manchester Central, or when they needed a river built inside Old Billingsgate to turn a waterwheel and generate power to charge mobile phones, it was us they turned to. When vodka brand, Belvedere, were looking to create rustic banqueting tables with flowing water running down the middle, or when Pepsi needed a moving LED target to kick footballs at; it’s us they called…”
We are deligh
ted that North Yorkshire Council have offered us £960 of funding support to bring Crumbs to five rural venues to the western side of the county, seeing us return to West Burton and Clapham cum Newby as well as Glusburn, Appletreewick and Darley.
You can of course see the whole tour and book now: CRUMBS TICKETS
BADAPPLE BANDWAGON COMING SOON:
It is going to be a stunning lineup of performers joining us in Green Hammerton for our Fundraiser on 22nd March 2026 at 7.30pm. Many of you will remember our host Richard Kay from ‘the Frozen Roman’ and ‘Eddie and The Gold Tops’ and he will be our compere for the night, wrangling a host of familiar faces and songs from akk our best loved shows of the last 2 decades! Be sure to get your seats soon for a joyous night of songs and stories from behind the scenes at Badapple Theatre. BOOK NOW!