National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they […]
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero […]
Rosehill Players: Calendar Girls
The Rosehill Players return with the ever heart-warming tale of Calendar Girls. After the death of her best friend’s husband from cancer, spirited Yorkshire housewife Chris hatches a scheme to raise money for a memorial to him. Utilising a tradition from the uptight Women’s Institute association, Chris encourages Annie and their friends to create a […]
Charity Murder Mystery Dinner
The Spies the Limit – a murder mystery dinner hosted at Lodore Falls Hotel
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 […]
