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Dateline: 26th September, 2008
Bowness Theatre Festival The fourteenth annual Bowness Theatre Festival opens this coming week with a very mixed programme of theatre from touring shows to performances by local amateur actors, with some film and comedy thrown in, between 4th October and 30th December at the Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness-in-Windermere in the Lake District. Writer and performer Victoria Wood, a trustee of the Festival, said, "You may associate the word “theatre” with sitting on an itchy seat while people bore you – but this is different. Think of it as a Pick’n’Mix – some people like hazelnut whirls, others prefer blue jelly snakes. We have loads of different theatre – plays by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller and Pinter. There are some great one man shows, there’s folk music, comedy and lots of classical music.” Touring shows include Victor Spinetti's A Very Private Diary ... Revisited! in which he unlocks his private Hollywood diary, Bob Kingdom as the great Welsh poet in Dylan Thomas: Return Journey directed by Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dan and Jeff (of Potted Potter) with their newest show Potted Pirates and North Country Theatre's latest adaptation after their 39 Steps success, The Prisoner of Zenda. LAMDA students will perform five plays at the festival: A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, The Grace of Mary Traverse by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Party Time / Celebration by Harold Pinter (directed by Guardian head theatre critic Michael Billington), The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare and The Revenger's Tragedy by (probably) Thomas Middleton (attributed in the publicity to Cyril Tourneur). Local performers are featured in three of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues — Bed Among the Lentils, A Chip in the Sugar and Her Big Chance — and a festive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. There will be comedy performances by Arthur Smith and Andy Hamilton, a showing of Buster Keaton's film The Cameraman with live piano accompaniment and music from the Belcea Quartet, Cropper, Welsh and Roscoe with Beethoven's piano trios and folk musicians Martin Simpson, Bruce Molsky and Dick Gaughan. David Chadderton
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