Royal Ballet & Opera: Woolf Works

Screening. Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality. Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures. Woolf Works is a collage of themes from Mrs Dalloway, […]

Royal Ballet & Opera: La Traviata

At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisan courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart. But the young couple’s happiness is short-lived, as the harsh realities of life soon come knocking. Screening. As […]

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Screening. Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, […]

Steel Magnolias

A play about a young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.

The Dumb Waiter

The Dumb Waiter at The John Peel Theatre, Wigton Harold Pinter’s classic one-act play. Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply – and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while […]

Outdoor Theatre ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ – The Handlebards

Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK. Join the troupe at Castletown House and Gardens for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s […]

Ministry Of Science Live: Science Saved The World

Over the last few years science has led the way in getting our lives back to normal. Now, the UK’s favourite science team are back and more explosive than ever! Join their presenters as they dive deep into the world of science, and look at how science shapes the modern world we live in, with […]

A Beginners Guide to Widowhood

BY RAE MAINWARING & OMAR KHAN A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WIDOWHOOD is a one woman show exploring the experiences of young, widowed women, loss, and why we don’t talk about death. Suria has lost her husband (she hasn’t misplaced him or anything – he’s dead.) Join her & the kids in Türkiye, on what will […]

Good Things

Suddenly single and with the dreaded ‘Big Five-0’ staring her in the face, Susan also has to cope with a father in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence, and an ex who, unfortunately, still has the power to wound… Set in the charity shop (and around the year 2000) where […]

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