NW Productions

Published: 1 April 2018
Reporter: David Upton

Andrew Pollard as Frank and Lauryn Redding as Rita in Educating Rita at The Dukes Credit: Darren Andrews
The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk from Kneehigh at HOME

The Dukes’ first homegrown production of the spring season in Lancaster is the classic comedy Educating Rita, which runs from Thursday to April 14.

Two familiar soap stars takes to the stage in Salford next week. Alfie Browne-Sykes, from Hollyoaks and Riley Carter-Millington from Eastenders star in Rachel Wagstaff’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong at The Lowry from Tuesday to Saturday.

Kneehigh theatre company returns to HOME in Manchester with the award-winning The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk.

English Touring Theatre transports audiences from the chilly Cumbrian spring to the thick humidity of Deep South America when they bring Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire to Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake next week.

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