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Dateline: 28th February, 2010 News from the North West
Dukes fights council budget cutThe Dukes in Lancaster is being threatened with a £20,000 cut in its funding from the City Council, which artistic director Joe Sumsion claims would damage the theatre's future and also affect local businesses that have benefitted from the venue's recent success. Sumsion spoke to the Council's budget panel on Thursday to plead the theatre's case and supporters have written to the Council to protest against the cuts. According to Sumsion, if the cuts went ahead they would have to increase prices for their youth theatre and for local groups to use the theatre and the drop in income could jeopardise funding from Arts Council England, Lancashire County Council and others that require the organisation to obtain a certain percentage of its funding from other sources. A decision will be made by a meeting of the full Council on Wednesday.
Lakes Alive programme of performances in CumbriaLakes Alive has announced its summer arts schedule at locations throughout Cumbria. There will be an evening full of the flavours of Asia at Furness Abbey, an outdoor festival around Whitehaven Harbour, a public construction using thousands of cardboard boxes in Carlisle city centre, Zircus Plus international circus festival in Barrow, Theater Titanick's spectacular outdoor recreation of the sinking of the Titanic, an afternoon of free cabaret in various West Cumbria towns and villages, Kendal's four-day Mintfest and street performance in Cockermouth, Penrith and Maryport Harbour. The events begin at the end of April and continue right through summer until the beginning of September. More details can be found on the Lakes Alive web site at www.lakesalive.org.
Local playwright's Paradise Heights e-bookLocal playwright Joe O'Byrne has compiled an e-book that brings together the various stories he has written based in his fictional north west housing estate of Paradise Heights. The estate has been the location for various works by O'Byrne for stage and screen including The Bench that was chosen for the Library Theatre's Re:Play Festival and the Kino Festival prize-winning film I'm Frank Morgan. As this is an e-book, you can view film clips as well as words and pictures as you browse the book online. The e-book can be found at www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=25882.
NW productionsJulian Fox recreates the Brockwell Lido in his Edinburgh Fringe success You've Got To Love Dancing To Stick To It at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University on 2 March. Hull Truck brings Me And Me Dad by Nick Lane, about a father who has to learn to do everythingh around the house from scratch from his son when his wife dies, to Rose Theatre in Ormskirk on 2 March and Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on 3 March. Sebastian Barry's Andersen's English, about children's author Hans Christian Andersen turning up on Charles Dickens's doorstep for an extended stay, will be brought by Max Stafford-Clark and Out of Joint to the Library Theatre in Manchester from 2 to 6 March. Matthew Bourne's celebrated production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake will visit The Lowry in Salford from 1 to 6 March. Hollywood actress Romola Garai stars in Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed by Sean Holmes & Filter for Lyric Hammersmith, at The Lowry from 2 to 6 March. Young people's theatre company Half Moon visits The Dukes in Lancaster on 1 March with Begin/End, centring on a friendship between two girls that reaches breaking point when one develops unreciprocated feelings for the other. Publick Transport will perform The Dept of Smelling Pistakes—a comedy set in Russia in which two civil servants jostle for power—at The Met in Bury on 3 March. Javier Marzan of Peepolykus directs The Dreadful Hours by Chris Fittock for Tmesis Theatre,a dark, comic drama that explores the quiet crumbling of love’s first flourish through the lifetime of one couple’s relationship, at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester from 3 to 6 March. Studio Salford will host a double bill of 2 Boards and a Passion's Tomb to Womb by Kathryn Penton and Colin Ward and Breathe Out Theatre's Short Sharp Shocks—three ten-minute plays by Rob Johnston—from 3 to 6 March. Lee Mead stars as Lord Arthur Savile with Gary Wilmot, Kate O’Mara, David Ross and Derren Nesbitt in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde at Blackpool's Grand Theatre from 1 to 6 March. Spike Theatre's Top of the World recreates the conquest of Everest in 1953 at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick on 1 March. Waterhouse and Hall's classic 60s comedy Billy Liar is brought to Oldham Coliseum by Middle Ground Theatre Company from 2 to 6 March. Birmingham Stage Company will perform David Wood's adaption of Roald Dahl's children's book George's Marvellous Medicine at Preston Guild Hall and Charter Theatre from 2 to 6 March. Ghost Boy from 20 Stories High will be at Contact Theatre in Manchester from 3 to 13 March, fusing grime, dubstep, ska, puppetry, hip-hop theatre, street art and dance. Hoipolloi will bring its acclaimed Hugh Hughes In...360 to the Everyman in Liverpool from 4 to 6 March. At Liverpool Empire, Stop Messing About by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke is set during a live radio recording of a show that reunited Kenneth Williams with his Carry On co-star Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. Meeting Joe Strummer by Paul Hodson, in which two friends whose lives were transformed by a Clash concert in 1978 have to reevaluate their lives following the lead singer's death in 2002, will be at Unity Theatre in Liverpool on 5 and 6 March. Paul Duckworth's Beating Berlusconi, about a Liverpool fan who ended up sitting next to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at the 2005 Champions' League Final, will be at The Lowry on 7 March. Reporter: David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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