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Dateline: 26th November, 2006 Spring at the Dukes The Dukes in Lancaster has announced the programme for its season beginning in February 2007. The season kicks off with Home Fires by Lesley-Ann Rose, a wartime drama set in Lancaster. Lily's daughter and granddaughter discover her wartime diaries wrapped in a red silk scarf and are transported back to 1943 Lancaster when Lily was a cinema usherette whose husband was away fighting, losing herself in the romance of films such as Casablanca. This is followed in March by Charlotte Jones's Humble Boy, from the writer of last year's successful Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis. It’s middle England and bumbling Cambridge scholar Felix Humble has reluctantly returned to the family home for the funeral of his father, a modest bee-keeper. In July, the Dukes's 21st annual walkabout theatre in Williamson Park will be an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic Pinocchio by Gareth Machin. The production comes with the warning, 'These are not the sugared Disney stories of Pinocchio – these are toe-curling tales, told with such glorious mischief that you'll grin with delight and grimace with pleasurable terror.' Visiting productions include George Orwell's 1984 and Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, both performed by students of St Martin's College, Picasso & Me written and performed by Mike Maran, Withering Looks from Lip Service, Northern Contemporary Dance with Verve, Tango Siempre with Subitango!, Jaleo Flamenco and Monster Productions with A Handful of Sand. 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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