The Taming of the ShrewThe Contention starts here! After their ground-breaking success at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2012 and a World Tour in 2013, Two Gents Productions are back touring the UK in 2014 … and this time they mean business. Two Gents is launching The Complete Shakespeare Project – performing and touring all of Shakespeare’s Plays in Chronological Order. After Two Gentlemen of Verona, they now tackle The Taming of the Shrew.“uproariously entertaining” The Guardian"a lightness of touch - provocative,…

A fresh, modern, musical retelling of Peter Pan with words by Haley Cox and music by Phil Collingwood exploring small town mentality, youth aspiration and the challenges of following your dreams. Directed by Gail Mcintyre (West Yorkshire Playhouse Associate Director, Refugee Boy *****) and Musical Direction by Sean Green (Bill Kenwright Company).It's five minutes until closing time at Priceland and cashier Wendy Darling takes us into the timeless story of Peter Pan – second star to the left and straight…

Three years after the Reichenbach Falls the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is presumed dead. Dr John Watson has married and moved on, consigning his days of adventure and investigation to memories. In an intimate room in this rural town a lecture is about to take place. A great professor of criminology prepares to educate his audience on the science of deduction that Holmes made famous.Will this event be the catalyst to throw Holmes and Watson together again, as one final…

The production, With Cruel Times in Between is adapted from the works of Al Pittman by SaraH McDonald and Directed by SaraH McDonald.A lyrical and beautiful portrait of Newfoundland culture as painted by the rhythmic writings of one of Newfoundland

BERYLMaxine Peake's charming and critically acclaimed play celebrates the life of Beryl Burton - the greatest woman on two wheels. Yorkshire woman Beryl Burton was five times world pursuit champion, thirteen times national champion, twice road-racing world champion and twelve times national champion. She was awarded an MBE and an OBE. She was one of the most astonishing sports people ever to have lived. Beryl - A Romance on Two Wheels tells the story of Beryl's life, from working on…

Balbir Singh Dance Company The work of Balbir Singh Dance Company is both highly original and innovative in its choice of subject, whose variety is matched only by the range of settings in which it is performed. Wherever it is seen, the work leaves audiences inspired, moved and opened up to the richness of highly sophisticated – yet extremely accessible – work by a choreographer whose mastery of culturally diverse forms of dance has won critical acclaim. The company has…

MY NAME IS SAOIRSE Rural Ireland, 1987. Saoirse lives in a peach coloured bungalow with her Da and big brother Brendan. Her best friend is Siobhán, who has a glorious fountain of ginger hair, a whisper like a foghorn and distracts all the men at mass. Saoirse prefers running through fields to chasing after boys, but her best friend has other ideas. After a night out drinking with the lads, Saoirse discovers her pregnancy and is forced to set out…

Commissioned by the International Brigades Memorial Trust, the play’s tour will coincide with the 80th anniversaries of the creation of the International Brigades in October 1936 and the Battle of Jarama in 1937. The drama centres on the contrasting lives of International Brigaders Clem Beckett and Christopher Caudwell. Beckett, a Lancashire blacksmith and famous star of the speedway track, and Caudwell, a renowned writer, poet and philosopher, were killed together at Jarama in February 1937, having become friends as members…

Juliet Kelly shines a spotlight on her favourite songs from stage and screen. Bringing her warm personality and a jazzy flavour to the songs that feature in classic movies, musicals and tv shows, Juliet will take you on a whistle-stop tour through the ages of musical entertainment. A graduate of London’s prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Juliet Kelly has released 4 albums to critical acclaim and performed throughout the UK and Europe with concerts in Italy, Germany, Greece…

A riotously funny show revealing just what happens when a glamorous French actress and her hapless assistant stage their version of Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator. Gloria Delaneuf is well versed in mime, mask, and the mysteries of stagecraft. Her UK tour manager Josephine is not. Together they have created Gloriator – an awe-inspiring production of bravery, honour, and costumes made out of cardboard. Russell Crowe may not be available, but they are determined it will be a show you’ll never forget.…

Hailed as a “world class virtuoso” (Time Out), Eduardo Niebla appears with Matthew Robinson (guitar). This internationally acclaimed guitar duo present an amazing repertoire of “stunning flamenco jazz” (The Sound) from his latest albums. Continually seeking out new musical terrain, Niebla has traversed the worlds of jazz, classical and world music, collaborating with such diverse partners as sitar maestro Nishat Khan, George Michael, the late Lol Coxhill and the Dante String Quartet. A spellbinding evening of passion, verve and fleet…

Bringing a highly skilled performance and a deeply evocative touch of fiery Spain to you, Ricardo Garcia, flamenco guitarist and composer has programmed for you a full spectrum of music, rhythm and dance. Ricardo’s trio have performed at the Edinburgh Festival on several occasions and he has recently returned from a residency for the Spanish Embassy in East Africa, a regular occurrence. Their unique delivery of the Spanish artform from classic to contemporary including a look at the deep roots…

WE ARE THE LIONS MR MANAGER This is the story of Jayaben Desai’s fight for dignity in the workplace, the story of the Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike of 1976-78 and inspirational strike-leader Jayaben Desai, one of many newly arrived Gujurati workers from East Africa. It has tremendous contemporary relevance (immigration, workplace exploitation, women’s rights, racism and human dignity), and is told in Townsend Productions’ accessible, imaginative and entertaining theatrical style with songs and music of the 1970s. This is…

This play by Berni Stapleton is an extraordinary story celebrating the life and heroism of Frances Cluett. Frances was born and lived in Belleoram, Newfoundland. In 1916, she joined the Volunteer Aid Detachment. After a scant month of medical training she was shipped overseas and served for four years at the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France. Although she would likely argue the point, during those years she became as heroic as the men and boys who fought. The play…

Alan Barnes and David Newton have been playing duets for 40 years. These multiple award winners cover a vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea and play with an empathy that can only come with long experience. David is one of the greatest solo jazz pianists this country has ever produced and Alan plays multi reed instruments- all the saxes, clarinet and bass clarinet. They have developed an empathy and telepathic sympathy which only playing together for many years…

Joan and Jimmy tells the story of Joan Littlewood and Jimmy Miller, standing amongst the rubble of 1945 post war Britain. Jimmy Miller has changed his name to Ewan MacColl; and both are embarking on a career in radical political theatre, performing onenight stands across the North of England – early rural touring! They founded Theatre Workshop in Kendal with a travelling troupe of storytellers and outlaws committed to the overthrow of the established order where the rich got richer…

In Concert

La Bella and the lost chord of Ulanbataar