NW Productions

Published: 12 June 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Kathryn Hunter in Kafka's Monkey at Home Manchester
East of Heysham

The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in Manchester next week with their brand new show Beauties and the Beats. The show runs from next Thursday to June 27 in the Sabai Pavilion, a new venue for 2015.

Olivier Award winner Kathryn Hunter reprises her role playing a monkey playing a man in a highly-acclaimed one-woman show Kafka's Monkey at Manchester’s new HOME venue next week.

A production at Salford’s Lowry arts centre next Wednesday and Thursday comes to Preston’s Korova arts cafe and bar the following Saturday. The Organised Chaos performance of Lightspeed is also at Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion the following Tuesday as part of its mini regional tour.

Acclaimed playwright and campaigner Sarah Woods is joining forces with Live at LICA at Lancaster University and Artsadmin to bring her new show, The Roadless Trip, to five community venues and groups in Lancaster.

Lancaster writer Philip Martin will see his play East Of Heysham performed in Manchester next week. It chronicles a fateful night in the company of Morecambe's enthusiastic, but dwindling James Dean Memorial Society.

There will be a wild west theme to an evening of entertainment presented by the youngest thespians at Lancaster's Dukes theatre next Thursday to Saturday. Desperados will feature three short plays performed by The Dukes Junior Youth Theatre and Playmakers whose ages range from 7-13.

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