NW Productions

Published: 7 June 2015
Reporter: David Upton

The Lady of the Lake writer Benjamin Askew at Castlerigg Stone Circle, Keswick
Let's Hang On at St Helens Theatre Royal

The world première of a new play about King Arthur, Britain’s most famous and most mysterious legendary king, The Lady of the Lake, opens at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick on Saturday.

Young Everyman Playhouse’s Young Directors will have a chance to step into the limelight in June as a festival of work gives them the platform to showcase their skills. Running to June 16 the festival features five plays, all led by the budding directors.

Award-winning production Let’s Hang On returns to St Helens Theatre Royal for one night only, taking audiences through the journey of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons career, next Saturday.

Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games, a spectacular new staging of the much-loved dance show plays three dates at Blackpool Opera House from Tuesday to Thursday.

A group of young people go time travelling at the Dukes in Lancaster next week. Ug is the latest production by the Shattering Images theatre company based in the city. It's a show devised and created by a cast with learning needs, inspired by the popular children's story, Stig Of The Dump.

A mother and daughter from the local community join an all-male cast on stage each night of the run of Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone at the Royal Exchange in Manchester this Friday and Saturday. Borrowing its title from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, this highly celebrated work from one of the UK’s foremost contemporary theatre companies explores a moment of realisation universal to all: a child’s eventual recognition of their parents as a fellow human being.

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