Running Time 1hr 40 mins • Age 5+

Winner of Best Children’s Show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019, Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show is back for 2027 with a brand-new look. The stage becomes a futuristic science lab – glowing control panels, flashing screens and buttons that really shouldn’t be pressed – packed with new experiments to discover. The favourites are still here, from fire tornadoes and giant vortex rings to exploding hydrogen balloons, with plenty of audience participation along the way. Loud, fun and full of real science, it’s the perfect family day out.

Running Time 1hr 40 mins • Age 15+

From the award-winning creator of the Spectacular Science Show comes something altogether darker. Science After Darkstarts with the experiments you’d expect – erupting foam, swinging bowling balls and a hydrogen-fuelled party trick – before the lights dim and Mark turns to the stories that genuinely scare him. Glowing poisons, cruel experiments and disasters that should never have happened: the strange and sometimes horrifying true history of science. Sixty minutes, no interval, and rather different bedtime stories.