Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans (stage show)

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Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans is a 2007 stage show, which is part of the "Live on Stage" series in the Horrible Histories franchise. The show was created by the Birmingham Stage Company. It was first produced at the Civic Theatre, Darlington 06 Feb 2007,^[1] and later was staged at The Old Rep from 8 October 2013.^[2]

History

The show was performed at the Dubai Community Theatre & Art Centre in October 2013. Founder Rania Kuzbari Ashur said: "I have been working with the Birmingham Stage Company since 2004. This is the fourth time we have brought a Horrible Histories play to the UAE, We brought Barmy Britain last year, which was a great success. Our first one was Victorian Traders in 2005."^[3]

Synopsis

Themes of the play include: Roman emperors, gladiators, the Roman army, Roman Britain, and Spartacus.^[4]

Reception

The show was nominated for Manchester Evening News Award for Best Special Entertainment.^[5] Cambridge News said "Horrid, silly, yet clever and concise, The Ruthless Romans is like the best history lesson you can ever imagine".^[6]

References

Horrible Histories

Book series (1993)

Television

Live-action series	Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry (2011) Prom (2011) 2015 Revival List of episodes

Animated series (2001)
Gory Games (2011)

Stage shows

The Mad Millennium (1999)
Terrible Tudors (2005)
Vile Victorians (2005)
Awful Egyptians (2007)
Ruthless Romans (2007)
Nottingham (2008)
Frightful First World War (2009)
Blitzed Brits (2009)
Barmy Britain (2012)
Horrible Christmas (2013)
Groovy Greeks (2015)
Incredible Invaders (2015)
Wicked Warwick (2015)

Exhibitions

Funfair of Fear (2000)
Frightful First World War (2008)
Terrible Trenches (2009)
Spies (2013)
Rotten Rationing (2013)
Plague, Poverty and Prayer (2013)
Blitzed Brits at IWM North (2015)

Games and toys

Horrible Histories World (2011)
Horrible Histories Battle Arena (2013)

Spin-offs

Horrible Science	Book series (1996) Stage show (2010) Horrible Science of Submarines exhibition (2013) TV series (2015)

Totally (formerly The Knowledge) (1997)
Murderous Maths (1997)
Truly Terrible Tales (1997)
The Spark Files (1998)
10 Best Ever! (formerly Top Ten) (1998)
Horrible Geography (1999)
Horribly Famous (formerly Dead Famous) (1999)
Twisted Tales (1999)
What They Don't Tell You About... (1999)
Foul Football (2000)
Time Detectives (2000)
America's Funny But True History (2001)
Boring Bible (2003)
Terry Deary's Tales (2003)
Wild Lives (2003)
Fair Dinkum Histories (2006)

Key people and companies

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