VIDEO: Roundup of Bristol's Christmas shows

With less than a month to go until Christmas, the annual selection of festive shows has been getting started across the city.

Here is our roundup of what you can watch and where.

Bristol Old Vic Peter Pan - 26 Nov-19 Jan - For ages 6 and over This year's Christmas show sees our imaginations soar skyward as JM Barrie's much-loved tale of the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up takes flight. When the leader of the Lost Boys, the fleet-footed Peter Pan, loses his shadow during a visit to London, kind-hearted Wendy helps him re-attach it and is invited back to Neverland in return - where Tinker Bell the fairy, Princess Tiger Lily and, of course, the vengeful Captain Hook await. Directed by Sally Cookson (who directed the Tobacco Factory's Christmas hit Cinderella as well as Treasure Island), Peter Pan explores the pain and possibilities of growing up, set to live music and a riot of colour, magic and merry mischief to fill the hearts of everyone this Christmas.

Hey Diddle Diddle - (Bristol Old Vic Studio) -28 Nov – 5 January - 3-6 years This December the Studio turns into a magical Christmas playground for younger audiences to enjoy. Can you untangle Incy Wincy's web of muddled rhymes and characters and help Little Bo Peep find her sheep and put Humpty Dumpty together again? Armed with instruments, games, songs and a sackful of seasonal surprises, let Jack and Jill take you on a nostalgic, magical journey to a world of wonder and feel good festive fun. Meet the owl, the pussycat, three blind mice and the grand old Duke of York. Tobacco Factory - Hansel and Gretel - 5 Dec – 13 January - For ages 6 and over In the middle of a cold, dark forest Hansel and Gretel are lost and hungry. But as they sit, shivering, they glimpse a tiny cottage through the trees… a cottage that's unlike anything you've ever seen before. Its roof is made of gingerbread, the walls are made of chocolate cake, the door is made of boiled sweets and the windows of clear sugar glaze, but what's inside? This Christmas, follow Hansel and Gretel into the frozen forest and find out. The Tobacco Factory Theatre and International award-winning theatre company New International Encounter join forces to bring you an enchanting show that will transform the Factory into a magical winter woodland. Adapting the classic fairytale Hansel and Gretel with a mix of brilliantly fun live music, clowning, humour, language and storytelling, this is a wonderful Christmas show for all the family. VIDEO: Hansel and Gretel Colston Hall - The Snowman & Peter and the Wolf - Tuesday, December 18 A double bill of classic musical stories for children, accompanied by live orchestra and narrated by Tamsin Greig. The classic animated film The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, shown on the big screen, will become even more enchanting with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera bringing their spine-tingling live music magic to the song Walking in the Air and other favourites from the film. After the interval, narrator Tamsin Greig (Green Wing, Episodes, The Archers), will join the orchestra to bring the characters in the musical menagerie of Prokofiev's Peter and The Wolf to life, from dancing strings, quacking oboes, fluttering flutes and prowling horns. Hippodrome - Aladdin - Fri 7 Dec- Sun 6th Jan This Christmas take a magical carpet ride to the Far East in this year's spectacular family pantomime Aladdin. Starring Street Dance Sensation Flawless as the Peking Police Squad. Sharing the role of the magical Genie of the Lamp are Loose Women star Carol McGiffin and Bristol favourite and Big Brother winner Josie Gibson who will be making our hero's dreams come true. Rub the magic lamp, enter the cave of wonders and be transported into a fun, fairytale world. Redgrave Theatre - A Christmas Carol - Fri 30 Nov - Thurs 20 Dec The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School presents A Christmas Carol a family festive musical based on the novel by Charles Dickens Redgrave Theatre - Dec 8 and 15 -Starry Night - A Nativity Play The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School presents a beautiful, playful and fresh adaptation which takes the traditional mystery cycle and breathes in a rich web of stars, puppets, magicians, slapstick, poetry and singing. Further afield... Weston Super Mare - The Playhouse - Sleeping Beauty - 13 Dec – 6 Jan Starring Lorraine Chase (Stephanie Stokes in Emmerdale, I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here) as the wicked fairy Carabosse. The X Factor's Same Difference as the Prince and The Lilac Fairy. Comedy double-act Simmons and Simmons as the calamitous King and comedy Chamberlain. The hilarious Terry Gleed as Muddles. Adam Daye as Nurse Katie Cough-Drop. Bath - Theatre Royal - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 13 Dec – 13 January Bath - The Egg - Heidi – A Goats Tale - 8 Dec 13 January

duo duvet