South Shields Customs House has announced its summer 2017 season which runs from May to August, featuring a wide range of performance from stand-up to music, from tribute bands to dance, from film to theatre, from amateur, youth, student and professional companies.
Theatre and dance highlights are:
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15 May at 2:30
Ballet Theatre UK
Alice in Wonderland -
23 (7:30) and 24 May (1:30 & 7:30)
Our Day Out
By Willy Russell
Presented by SA Productions, featuring both long standing professionals and the next generation of up and coming talent from Newcastle’s Sage Academy. -
27 (4PM) and 28 (noon & 4PM)
The Railway Children
A musical adaptation by Ben Sleep, presented by Talking Scarlet. -
16 June (7PM)
The Filleting Machine
By Tom Haddaway
Presented by Blowin’ a Hooley Theatre -
25 June (7PM)
Austen’s Women
Rebecca Vaughan brings to life thirteen of Jane Austen’s women in this one-woman show produced by Dyad Productions in association with Theatre Tours International, directed by Guy Masterson. -
6 July
Combustion
By Asif Khan whose debut play is a comic take on the combustion surrounding young British Muslim lives in the North today. -
26 and 27 July (1:30 and 6:30)
Beauty and the Beast
A panto by AJ Productions of Middlesbrough. -
22 – 26 August (7:30; 2:30 matinees on Thursday and Saturday)
End of the Pier
A new production of Neil Armstrong’s comedy
Ion Productions in association with the Customs House. -
30 August – 2 September (11AM and 2PM; no afternoon show on final day)
…And the Cow Jumped into the Woods!
For age 7 and under: the sequel to …And the Cow Jumped over the Moon, featuring Doddington the Cow and Arbuthnot from the 2016/2017 panto Jack and the Beanstalk.