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Year 10 pupils from Cleeve School in Cheltenham have teamed up with other young people from Hereford to examine the history of their own theatres.

The Everyman Theatre, once called the Opera House, has seen many different genres used by famous stage personalities over the years. Actors such as Ellen Terry, HB Irving and even Charlie Chaplin entertained audiences in Frank Matcham's beautiful Victorian auditorium.

The Everyman was in fact the first theatre o show a 'talkie' film in October 1929. Using this information, Year 10 pupils from Cleeve School in Cheltenham have created an exciting piece of performance that uses multi media and a live piano score to create a fusion of performance, colour, movement and music, representational rather than reproduction. Bringing the past into the future.

Millions of years before Cheltenham existed dinosaurs roamed Britain - the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs programme succeeded in taking us into the world of these incredible creatures and provided viewers with a taste of what their world was like. With some set in their scenic landscape you can walk back in time and experience what it was like to encounter a dinosaur face to face.

Coming to Cheltenham are a few of the spectacular casts which were made for the programme - a T-Rex head, Deinonychus, and a dead Torosaur are shown along side a replica skull of a Triceratops and real fossils that are over 100 million years old.

A Tour-Ex Exhibition produced under licence from BBC Worldwide.