The Professor of Adventure
“He smelt like a mountain goat, chain-smoked Woodbines and lived in a cave. Millican Dalton was a mountain guide, philosopher and self-proclaimed inventor of shorts. It’s the winter of 1941 and Millican is safe in his cave in Borrowdale, far away from the Blitz.But the Keswick ARP warden has just ordered him to “Put that […]
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Bouncers
Bouncers shows a night on the tiles from the point of view of the men on the door. It is a funny, energetic piece of highly theatrical storytelling where the men are at once themselves, and every character they happen to meet on a night at work at the nightclub.
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Learned Friends
Saturday 6th May, 7.30PM A beautifully crafted, atmospheric and truly captivating courtroom drama with echoes of Twelve Angry Men and the BBC’s Silk, lifting the shroud of secrecy surrounding the moral quandaries and machinations of a high-stakes criminal trial.
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The Whispering Road
Saturday 8th April, 7.30 PM A spellbinding folk trio, including Nick Hennessey, one of the UK’s top performance storytellers, seamlessly weaves thrilling music with the vivid imagery of Scandinavian myths and stories. Fantastic family entertainment. Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer have developed a strong reputation for a delivering great performances time and time again. Once […]
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Thirty-nine Steps
Thursday 30th, Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April, 7.30PMMelodrama adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock
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STEPTOE AND SON
Saturday 18th March Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s Steptoe and Son – Adapted by John Hewer Albert and Harold; father and son. One proclaims he’s “a poor old man” while the other protests that actually he’s “a dirty old man!” In actual fact, both are telling the truth. These two warring rag-and-bone-men, in their Shepherd’s […]
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Blair Dunlop in Concert
Friday, 3rd March 2017, 7:30 PM Son of Fairport Convention icon Ashley Hutchings, this hugely talented Radio 2 Folk Award-winning guitarist-singer performs an intimate set of popular folk songs and critically acclaimed originals.
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Red Riding Hood
20th January – February 4th 2017 RED RIDING HOOD as never seen before ! An original pantomime written by Blair Greenwood-Reeves and directed by Samantha Tootell and Marcus Holland, it is choc full of magic and mischief. A nefarious big bad wolf is buying up all the houses in the neighbourhood and only Red, a […]
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The Stephane Grapelli Story
11th November 2016 The STEPHANE GRAPPELLI STORY featuring the ANDY LAWRENSON TRIO have made a bold and adventurous tribute to the life and music of the great musician. With interplay between Violin, Upright Bass and Guitar, expect to hear such greats as “Minor Swing” and “Sweet Georgia Brown” from the Django Years, through to Grappelli’s […]
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4th November 2016 Before slipping into well-earned retirement, Sherlock Holmes has prevailed upon his long-time companion Dr Watson, his landlady Mrs Hudson and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard to join him in a farewell tour of the British Isles. For the first time ever they will re-enact one of the detective’s most baffling unrecorded cases […]
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