NW Productions

Published: 24 March 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Mind Walking at The Dukes
A scene from Whole at The Dukes
Fiona Hampton in Glass Menagerie at the Octagon

javascript:mctmp(0);Coping with dementia can be seen from a different angle in an imaginative new aerial drama by EastEnders scriptwriter Tanika Gupta

Mind Walking, at The Dukes in Lancaster next Wednesday and Thursday, explores what happens when an ageing mind can no longer hide its deepest secrets.

An exciting new play inspired by the real stories of young people and their views on sex and religion will be performed at The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday.

Whole is a bold and unflinching look at sexuality and religion in 21st century Britain, aimed at young people aged 13 plus, and presented by 20 Stories High, a Liverpool-based theatre company.

Fancy a summer job amongst the merry men—and women—of Sherwood Forest?

Then The Dukes is currently recruiting for its all new version of Robin Hood in Williamson Park, Lancaster from July 5-August 10.

The community company will perform alongside seven professional actors in front of hundreds of people each night.

Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org/robinhoodwanted

A surreal story from an award-winning performer, writer and comedian comes to the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal next Thursday.

The Victorian in the Wall, a co-production between Fuel Theatre and Will Adamsdale, is a play about a surprising scenario which sees a 21st century writer uncover a Victorian man living in the walls of his flat.

The Rocky Horror Show—the original rock 'n' roll musical extravaganza—is celebrating its 40th birthday this year and heading to the Opera House in Manchester as part of its anniversary tour.

Stage and TV actor Sam Attwater, who has appeared in Eastenders and Hollyoaks and starred in West End shows including Dreamboats and Petticoats, will play the role of Brad.

Following on from the success of their recent production Of Mice and Men, the Octagon in Bolton launches another piece of classic American drama, Tennessee Williams’s first great play: The Glass Menagerie.

Margot Leicester will play the role of abandoned matriarch Amanda Wingfield, directed by her husband David Thacker. She will be reunited with Kieran Hill, playing the role of The Gentleman Caller. Fiona Hampton plays Laura Wingfield, her fourth Octagon production in less than six months.

The Glass Menagerie runs from Wednesday to April 20.

Graham Linehan’s hit adaptation of the classic 1955 Ealing comedy The Ladykillers comes to The Lowry in Salford.

Linehan, the writer of Channel 4 comedies Father Ted, Black Books and the IT Crowd, has re-worked the classic 1955 film, directed here by multi-award-winning stage director Sean Foley.

Three groups of adults and young people from Manchester are set to perform in The Studio at the city’s Royal Exchange Theatre—responding to the theatre’s current production of To Kill A Mockingbird.

The Mockingbird Academy is a showcase for three groups. Those involved have taken Harper Lee’s tale of prejudice, deep inequalities and humanity to create inspiration for three very different pieces.

After a critically acclaimed run last May at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, Franny Conlin's gritty, hard-hitting yet honest drama Wild Flowers is returning to the Epstein Theatre in the city next week.

It’s set at the time of the dockers’ strike of the mid 90s, a time when work and family life were one and the same.

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