National Civil War Centre to host family-friendly show The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend and Other Tales of Mad Science

Audiences are to be taken on a historical comedy adventure at the National Civil War Centre this Friday (November 7).

Professor Edvard von Goosechaser — Adam Nightingale — will tell tales of history and hilarity in The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend and Other Tales of Mad Science.

The year is 1669, and it’s time for the annual Professor Edvard von Goosechaser lecture. This time the subject is mad scientists, fool hardy inventors, and heroic herbalists.

It is an opportunity to learn about ‘mad’ seventeenth century science and invention in a family-friendly show which combines real history and live performance.

The Amazing Exploding Girlfriend and Other Tales of Mad Science will run from 7pm to 8.30pm on November 7, in the museum’s Tudor Hall.

Tickets, priced from £3, can be booked via the Palace Theatre website at www.palacenewark.com.

Audiences will find out which Royalist super soldier liked to dabble in science and how a hole in his head lead to a spectacular innovation in fashion; discover which inventor built the first ever lighthouse on a rock, in the middle of a war with France and during the worst storm in England history; and hear about how an amateur herbalist challenged the might of the medical establishment and almost got himself arrested for witchcraft.

But which one of them had an amazing girlfriend, and why on earth did she explode?

There will also be interactive entertainment courtesy of Professor Goosechaser and his mysterious musical companion Marco the Mute Musician in the form of ‘Bed, Wed, Behead’, every seventeenth century person’s favourite dating game.