Theatre news and reviews
Play tipped to be a big success
Published 3 September 2008
CUMBRIA’S very own ‘Gone With The Wind’ romantic tragedy is set to become one of Keswick Theatre by the Lake’s biggest success stories.
Murdered... to death
Published 22 August 2008
A MURDER mystery with plenty of fun is on its way thanks to Whitehaven Theatre Group.
In Brief
Published 15 August 2008
Fear, obsession and delusion
Published 4 August 2008
The Caretaker, Theatre by the Lake, KeswickYOU can almost smell Stephen Ley as Davies the tramp, such is the powerful and convincing nature of his performance in this Harold Pinter classic which has all the hallmarks of a typical play by the writer, with its latent sense of menace and barely concealed threat of violence.n The Caretaker is the third Studio play in the Keswick summer season. Call 017687 74411 to book.
Traversing a classic
Published 31 July 2008
BLACK humour comes to Theatre by the Lake tonight in a new production of a classic Harold Pinter play.
Pirate storytellers sail into Whitehaven today
Published 25 July 2008
MOST youngsters will know all about Captain Jack Sparrow and the Pirates of the Caribbean, but the original and best pirate story sails into Whitehaven today.
Ladies, let the men entertain you...
Published 25 July 2008
IN SHAKESPEARE’S time, men played both the male and female parts in plays, and companies usually only had seven players.
Gentlemen (and ladies) of... er... Brougham
Published 3 July 2008
Renaissance Italy comes to Brougham Hall near Penrith on Thursday and Friday next week when Shakespeare’s classic love story Romeo and Juliet is performed by Say Two Theatre Company.
Happy Hour at city pub
Published 26 June 2008
Three short comedy dramas are being performed in Carlisle next week – but not in their usual setting. The plays are being staged by new drama group the Happy Hour Theatre Company – and are being put on at the King’s Head, in Fisher Street, on Monday and Tuesday evening.
Boy racers take to the stage
Published 26 June 2008
A NEW play, co-written by its young cast, is being debuted in Carlisle tonight.
A musical not just for Xmas
Published 19 June 2008
SCROOGE – The Musical is being performed at the Sands Centre for the first time next week.
Shakespeare in the grounds
Published 19 June 2008
AN HISTORIC house near Penrith opens its gardens again next week for its annual open air performance of Shakespeare.
Truth about Burton
Published 12 June 2008
HIS affairs were famous across the world and he was the first victim of paparazzi photographers.
Bennett’s Keswick theatre exclusive
Published 10 June 2008
The next play to open in the Theatre by the Lake’s summer season, Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van, tells the story of Miss Shepherd (“a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-centred, rank, rude, car-mad cow”) who in 1974 drove her clapped-out Bedford into the playwright’s garden and stayed there till she died 15 years later.
Not just a whodunnit...
Published 5 June 2008
THE mistress of the house has died – but before she can be buried a police inspector arrives and stops the funeral.
All the world’s a stage
Published 5 June 2008
A touring, open-air production of Romeo & Juliet will arrive in Dumfries on Wednesday and Thursday next week.
One woman power play
Published 28 May 2008
The Bogus Woman, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, last night.
Play’s cultural connections
Published 17 April 2008
A Polish woman’s experience of rural England is the theme of a play touring West Cumbria next week.
Festival’s big idea
Published 17 April 2008
Dracula, a fairytale spider, Shakespeare and musical slates all feature in a festival at Keswick’s Theatre By The Lake.
