The multi-award winning global phenomenon that is ‘Slava’s SnowShow’ is coming to Sunderland Empire in early December.

It’s pretty hard to capture in words what ‘Slava’s SnowShow’ is all about – it’s something you really need to experience – but, in a nut-shell, it’s a visual and musical extravaganza that hits audiences up with a dream-like vision that overflows with theatrical magic and hilarious high-jinx galore. It’s absurd, it’s surreal and among the things it serves up are an unlikely shark swimming in a misty sea; both clowns and the audience tangled up in a gigantic spider’s web; a heart-breaking goodbye with a coat-rack on a railway platform; giant balloons; an out-of-this-world snowstorm; and plenty more besides. The spellbinding show has won countless awards and is exactly the kind of theatrical treat you need in your life right now.

Slava’s SnowShow, 3-7 December, Sunderland Empire, 7pm (Fri 8.30pm)  + mats Wed & Sat 2.30pm and Fri 5pm, from £15, atgtickets.com/venues/sunderland-empire