Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
Saturday 13 February 2027, 3pm
Tonbridge Parish Church
With the Lydian Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Crowhurst
Join us for a special screening of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, accompanied by a live performance of its much‑loved soundtrack. Experience every comic twist, daring chase and penguin‑related plot in a whole new way as the Lydian Orchestra brings Aardman’s Academy Award‑winning classic to life.
Before the film you will also hear a selection of well-known family film music. Expect nostalgia, laughs and some brilliant playing from the region’s most talented young musicians.
After the performance, Kent Music will host a Meet the Instruments session where children can try out different instruments and learn about lessons and local musical opportunities.
When money troubles prompt Wallace to take in a lodger, life at West Wallaby Street gets complicated for poor Gromit. Forced out of his room to make way for a cool-as-a-cucumber penguin called Feathers McGraw, it’s not long before he feels well and truly usurped as Wallace’s faithful companion.
There’s something not right about this penguin and when Gromit spots a ‘Wanted’ poster for a criminal ‘chicken’, it would seem his suspicions are correct. Meanwhile, the helpless Wallace finds himself under Feathers’ control – quite literally! The dastardly penguin has adapted Wallace’s Techno Trousers for his latest heist and he’s going to get Wallace to carry out his dirty work…
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Doors open at 2.30pm
Approx. running time: 50 minutes (no interval)
All tickets £8
Please note that seating is unreserved and some seats have restricted views of the orchestra.
This concert is kindly supported by the Whitehead Monckton Charitable Foundation and Hilden Park Accountants Limited.
The Lydian Orchestra is the premier independent youth ensemble in the South East, formed of young musicians (aged 13–24) from Kent and the neighbouring counties.
Founded in 1976 by June Clements, Lydian provides fantastic performance opportunities to students in the local area, as well as touring around the UK and Europe on a regular basis.
Wallace and Gromit, Aardman’s most loved and iconic duo have been delighting family audiences around the world for 35 years. First hitting our screens in Nick Park’s Academy Award®-winning Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989) the pair went on to star in three further half hour specials (Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993), Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death (2009) and a feature length film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and are internationally celebrated winning over 100 awards at festivals – including 3 Academy Awards® and 8 BAFTA® Awards.
A regular highlight of the primetime BBC schedules, especially during the festive season, they have become British national treasures and pop culture icons in their own right. The duo featured in their first augmented reality story The Big Fix Up, followed by the Emmy®-nominated VR experience, The Grand Getaway. The new feature length title Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day 2024 – the most-watched animation on British TV since records began, with 21.6 million views in 28 days – and was released on Netflix globally on the 3rd of January 2025.
With a permanent attraction at Blackpool Pleasure Beach with over 500,000 riders every year, over 1.7 million fans on social and over 102 million views on YouTube, these perennial characters continue to grow audiences across multiple platforms.
Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity is a national charity raising funds to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK, raising over £90 million since 1995.
Aardman is an employee-owned company, based in Bristol (UK) and co-founded in 1976 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. An independent, multi-Academy Award® and BAFTA® award winning studio, it produces feature films, series, advertising and interactive entertainment.
Its global productions are renowned for their uniquely entertaining and brilliantly crafted characters. The studio’s work – which includes the creation of much-loved characters including Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time and Morph – is often imitated, and yet the company continues to lead the animation field producing a rare brand of visually stunning, comedic content for cinema, broadcasters, digital platforms and live experiences around the world.
2026 sees the studio celebrate its 50th anniversary with a roster of events and celebrations highlighting the craft and legacy of Aardman and the launch of a new movie, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom in the autumn.
