What's on in the North East

Published: 1 July 2018
Reporter: Peter Lathan

The Play That Goes Wrong (Theatre Royal, Newcastle)
Woven Bones (Arts Centre Washington), Customs House, South Shields, and Gala, Durham) Credit: Keith Pattison
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Darlington Hippodrome)

From Monday to Saturday, The Play That Goes Wrong comes to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal.

In Stage 2 at Northern Stage on Tuesday, Slate Is Curious presents the Slate Artist Showcase in which four queer, black artists from across the North showcase extracts from their new projects. Featured are poet and visual artist Bethany Hermitt, Jamal Gerald, writer and director Abena Taylor-Smith and Afro-Latin percussion and brass duet Ladies of Midnight Blue.

It’s Alphabetti Theatre Is Curious Week at Alphabetti, with Iconography by Zoe Murtagh on Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30, Dietrich: Natural Duty by Peter Groom on the same days at 7:45, a Scratch Night of experimental queer performance on Saturday at 9:00, Becoming Scheherazade by Kamaal Hussain on Saturday at 6:00, followed at 7:15 by a ten-minute film, MUM by Anne-Marie O-Connor and Kate O’Donnell.

On Friday at Dance City, Oona Doherty presents Hope Hunt and the Ascension to Lazarus.

Woven Bones comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.

Woven Bones is also at the Customs House in South Shields on Tuesday.

As part of the Mouth of the Tyne Festival, Southpaw Dance Company presents its latest show Icarus in Front Street, Tynemouth, at 1:00 and 4:15 on Saturday and Sunday.

A new adaptation of Little Women, based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott and featuring traditional live music, comes to the Gala in Durham on Wednesday. Then on Friday and Saturday, Woven Bones comes to the theatre.

less is MORE and Middlesbrough Theatre present My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot at Middlesbrough Theatre from Wednesday to Friday.

On Thursday in Stockton, ARC Is Curious, presenting an evening of live performance, dance, comedy and cabaret exploring and celebrating LGBTQ culture, includes work from David Hoyle, Lo-Giudice Dance, Darren Pritchard and Sticky Theatre.

From Tuesday to Saturday, Joe Pasquale stars in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em at Darlington Hippodrome.

At the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond from Thursday to Sunday (various times), Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour offers the audience a choice from three plays—The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night—and the most popular will be performed.

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