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Dateline: 11th August, 2003 News from the North East Welcome to our new page of news from England's North East: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Co. Durham, Cleveland and Teesside.Theatre Royal Announces
Panto Line-up Peter Pan runs from Saturday 13th December 2003 to Sunday 18th January 2004. Live to Celebrate with HaddawayAs part of Live Theatre’s 30th anniversary, the company is taking part in a region wide Tom Hadaway Festival, a celebration of the life of this remarkable writer who has had a long association with Live. Orphaned at a young age, Tom was adopted by his auntie Mabel and her husband, a fish merchant in North Shields. Tom himself eventually followed his adopted father into the fishing trade, having had various jobs and having travelled the world whilst serving in the Navy during the Second World War. He became a writer in his 40s, when, encouraged by CP Taylor, he started to write plays and stories about the people and places he knew. Plays such as The Filleting Machine were to mark the beginning of a long career of writing for theatre and television which has included some of the best loved plays written from and about the North East and its people. Tom’s work is rich with the voices of the people he has known and with the stories and experiences of ordinary working class life. This event will take the audience on a biographical journey through Tom’s life with extracts from many of his plays including The Filleting Machine, Seafarers, The Long Line, God Bless Thee Jackie Maddison and Francie Nichol. The show runs from Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th October. Revivals and New Writing
at the Customs House All of the 3,150 tickets available for Dirty Dusting have been sold and already 3,300 of the Theatre Royal tickets are gone. From 9th to 13the September the theatre will present a new play by local writer Tom Kelly, Family Ties, which follows the history of a Jarrow family from the beginning of the last century until today. Billingham Forum Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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