Here I Belong, a play telling the life story of an elderly villager, will be coming to Theatre by the Lake from April 19 to 21.
The main house stage will be transformed into Elsie's local village hall with all the action happening in and around the audience, seated at tables cabaret-style.
The tale takes the audience through decades of British history seen through the eyes of Elsie celebrating her 90th birthday at the local hall, in a village where she has lived her whole life.
Melanie McHugh and Nathalie Barclay tell her life story over six decades, moving through time from the Coronation in 1953 to her birthday party. And there will be cake!
The play is written by Matt Hartley and brought to Keswick by Pentabus, a rural theatre company that regularly visits village halls, fields and theatres across the country, reaching audiences of more than 20,000 people a year with its adaptable sets.
Hartley won a Bruntwood Award with his first play, Sixty Five Miles, and has gone on to fulfil commissions for Hampstead Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, BBC Radio 4 and two plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company.