A 30th anniversary celebration of outdoor theatre and two homegrown dramas feature in the new season at The Dukes in Lancaster.
Its reputation for producing the UK’s biggest outdoor walkabout theatre season was recognised this year with a UK Theatre Award.
In 2017, The Dukes celebrates 30 years of promenading in the park with an adaptation of Treasure Island from July 4-August 12.
From April 27 to May 6, The Dukes will be visiting another Island—the one created by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona.
Joining forces once again with The Theatre Chipping Norton, The Dukes presents The Island, a drama of defiance and determination drawing on stories from Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 27 years.
Launching The Dukes homegrown season on February 15, after a run earlier this year, will be the return of I Was A Wife written and performed by award-winning actor Polly Lister.
Up-and-coming young actors from The Dukes youth theatre will play a role in the spring season with their own promenade performance of their newly devised work Generation Z staged in A-wing at Lancaster Castle, a former prison now open to the public.
The Dukes Young Actors will also present a retelling of Macbeth in The Round.