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Welcome to Theatre by the Lake's what's on section.

Theatre by the Lake's new season Audio Brochure is now available, to download click here.

Easter 2010 - Irish blarney at its best
Stones in his Pockets by Marie Jones

Summer Season 2010 Public booking opens Thu 1 April at 9.30am

Main House

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, adapted by Tim LuscombeBalls and bonnets in Bath with a shiver of Gothic horror in this fresh and lively adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic.

What the Butler Saw by Joe OrtonAn outrageous sexual farce set in a psychiatric clinic; dressing, undressing and cross-dressing, fast, funny and frantic fare from the writer of Loot.

Bus Stop by William Inge Snowbound overnight in a small Kansas truck-stop diner, a young testosterone-fuelled cowboy woos an amoral nightclub chanteuse – an American mid-west romance.

Studio

Shining City by Conor McPhersonA gripping, contemporary ghost story set in Dublin – an absorbing psychological drama, chilling and atmospheric.

Silence by Moira BuffiniA Dark Ages “road movie”, a journey through a savage England from Kent to Cumbria; intense, poetic, funny and bracingly theatrical.

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The classic American drama from the writer of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire – a ‘memory’ play based on Williams’ own relationship with his family.

 

Christmas 2010

Tom’s Midnight Garden Adapted by David Wood from the book by Philippa PearceIt is 1950 – quarantined and bored, Tom magically ‘time-slips’ on a nightly voyage to a beautiful 1880s Victorian garden where he meets the lonely orphan, Hatty. A brilliant adaptation of this modern children’s classic.

As well as all these we also have a variety of incoming work including: opera, comedy, music and drama.

Please feel free to browse our website using the left hand 'search' panel for details of forthcoming shows.

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