Theatre news and reviews
Gentlemen (and ladies) of... er... Brougham
Published 3 July 2008
Renaissance Italy comes to Brougham Hall near Penrith on Thursday and Friday next week when Shakespeare’s classic love story Romeo and Juliet is performed by Say Two Theatre Company.
Happy Hour at city pub
Published 26 June 2008
Three short comedy dramas are being performed in Carlisle next week – but not in their usual setting. The plays are being staged by new drama group the Happy Hour Theatre Company – and are being put on at the King’s Head, in Fisher Street, on Monday and Tuesday evening.
Boy racers take to the stage
Published 26 June 2008
A NEW play, co-written by its young cast, is being debuted in Carlisle tonight.
A musical not just for Xmas
Published 19 June 2008
SCROOGE – The Musical is being performed at the Sands Centre for the first time next week.
Shakespeare in the grounds
Published 19 June 2008
AN HISTORIC house near Penrith opens its gardens again next week for its annual open air performance of Shakespeare.
Truth about Burton
Published 12 June 2008
HIS affairs were famous across the world and he was the first victim of paparazzi photographers.
Bennett’s Keswick theatre exclusive
Published 10 June 2008
The next play to open in the Theatre by the Lake’s summer season, Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van, tells the story of Miss Shepherd (“a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-centred, rank, rude, car-mad cow”) who in 1974 drove her clapped-out Bedford into the playwright’s garden and stayed there till she died 15 years later.
Not just a whodunnit...
Published 5 June 2008
THE mistress of the house has died – but before she can be buried a police inspector arrives and stops the funeral.
All the world’s a stage
Published 5 June 2008
A touring, open-air production of Romeo & Juliet will arrive in Dumfries on Wednesday and Thursday next week.
One woman power play
Published 28 May 2008
The Bogus Woman, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, last night.
Play’s cultural connections
Published 17 April 2008
A Polish woman’s experience of rural England is the theme of a play touring West Cumbria next week.
Festival’s big idea
Published 17 April 2008
Dracula, a fairytale spider, Shakespeare and musical slates all feature in a festival at Keswick’s Theatre By The Lake.
Russian comedy for the masses
Published 3 April 2008
“A CHEKHOV Comedy Cavalcade”, combining “two jests in two acts” is performed in Tullie House’s lecture theatre tonight and tomorrow.
The show must go on
Published 3 April 2008
Over the past 80 years Carlisle Musical Society has impressed audiences with its mixture of old favourites and timeless classics.
Theatre... and all that jazz
Published 3 April 2008
A CLASSIC black comedy set in 1940s America and a harrowing political piece about an African woman seeking asylum in England are just two of the plays chosen for this year’s summer season at the Theatre by the Lake.
Four of a kind!
Published 31 March 2008
TWO couples show their love of theatre by swapping their loved ones in the Carlisle Musical Society performance of Gershwin’s Crazy for You.
Faye’s steps to success
Published 27 March 2008
It’s been seven years since the Steps bubble burst and pop’s famous five went their separate ways.
Productions at the double
Published 22 March 2008
THEATRE-GOERS can enjoy two plays instead of one in Keswick over the spring season.
‘La’al’ festival that is growing bigger
Published 19 March 2008
A LITTLE Cumbrian theatre festival is getting bigger as it enters its third year with, for the first time, main stage performances.
