The Dukes in Lancaster announced plans for a fairytale summer and a spring tribute to Lancashire’s greatest film-makers.
The city’s award-winning theatre will stage Hansel & Gretel And More Tales From The Forest from July 4-August 16.
Before that, the première of a play celebrating the life and times of Lancashire factory gate film-makers, Mitchell & Kenyon, runs from April 19-May 10.
It’s written by award-winning Lancaster-based writer Daragh Carville while Lancaster film projection specialists—imitating the dog—who produced Sea Breeze at Morecambe’s Winter Gardens this summer and The Breaking Light at Lancaster Castle for Light Up Lancaster also help tell this unique tale of the birth of modern cinema.
The Dukes marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One with a bold theatre experience courtesy of its Young Actors and Young Company.
From March 18-22, Your Country Needs You! (But I don’t need my country…) explores what it means to go to war and what nationalism means to young people now.
Filter Theatre’s explosive version of Twelfth Night, which sold out during its previous Dukes run, makes a return from February 11-15 as part of the city’s Season of Shakespeare.
And Northern Broadsides is back with An August Bank Holiday Lark (March 4-8), a moving drama set in rural Lancashire in the summer before World War One.
Other dramatic highlights include: Nosferatu (March 14); Killing Roger (May 15) and a second chance to see the Olivier Award-winning play Morecambe, the story of Eric Morecambe on May 20 and 21.