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Dog-friendly cinema screenings return to the Little Theatre for Christmas
Lockdown dogs, pedigree pooches, rescue hounds and mangy mongrels rejoice! Bath’s Little Theatre’s ever-popular dog-friendly screenings are back for the festive season. This year you can treat your beastly chum to the greatest of all Dickens adaptations: The Muppet Christmas Carol.
For the uninitiated, dog-friendly screenings have reduced capacity, the lights are kept slightly higher than usual and the soundtrack a little lower. Bowls of water are placed around the auditorium and everyone is issued with a fleece blanket for their canine companion to sit on to avoid sharing parasites and muddy paws with other patrons.
Alas, The Muppet Christmas Carol includes only a brief cameo by Rowlf, which means woke mutts may growl about shameful under-representation. But terriers will be overjoyed by the casting of Rizzo the rat in a leading role.
“I didn’t do that. Honest.”
The screening takes place at 11:15am on Sunday 12 December. Go here for tickets.
Those who’ve elected to massively increase their carbon footprints by making more humans rather than lavishing all their affection on a sock-chewing furball are not being neglected. This year’s kids’ Christmas special at the Little is a Polar Express pyjama party. Nippers are invited to dress up in their most festive PJs for this one and will collect a golden ticket on arrival at the cinema. It takes place on Saturday 18 December at 10:30am. Tickets price £3, can be bought here.
Traditionalists who crave monochrome heart-warmery and reassurance that the cinema has not completely gone to the dogs are served the inevitable annual screenings of It’s a Wonderful Life on Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23 December at 5:45pm, with accompanying mince pies, mulled wine and Christmas carols. Tickets for these events can be found here.
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