Set on the shores of Derwentwater in Keswick, Theatre by the Lake is Cumbria’s only year-round professional producing theatre.
Offering a diverse range of plays over the Summer Season, a Spring production and a Christmas show for all the family, alongside a wide range of visiting work, music, dance, talks, comedy, film and festivals. Drop in for coffee, lunch, pre-theatre supper or a drink any time.
2012 at The Theatre by the Lake Spring
The History Boys by Alan Bennett A Theatre by the Lake production directed by Ian Forrest, designed by Martin Johns
A boys’ grammar school in the North of England in the 1980s. A lively bunch of bright, funny, anarchic sixthformers in pursuit of sex and Oxbridge places. A headmaster obsessed with league tables and exam results; teachers who argue about how those results should be achieved. The play, packed with classic Bennett lines, asks: What is history and how should it be taught? What is the true purpose of education? Alan Bennett’s multi-award-winning play, successfully filmed in 2005, provides an unmissable kick-start to our 2012 Main House season of home produced work. A huge treat for anyone who enjoyed Theatre by the Lake’s productions of Habeas Corpus and The Lady in the Van by this well-loved and most English of contemporary playwrights. Saturday 24 March – Saturday 21 April Preview: Friday 23 March Tickets: £26 - £10 Booking opens Tuesday 3 January at 9.30am
Summer Comedy, farce, drama and mystery at
Theatre by the Lake
Showing in the Main House: Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn Four couples, three bedrooms and one eventful night! A vintage Ayckbourn comedy.
Dry Rot by John Chapman Kidnapping, conmen and chaos in a country hotel. A riotous Whitehall farce from the 1950s.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Drama and mystery in an adaptation of one of Dickens’ best-loved novels. Theatre by the Lake’s contribution to the Dickens bicentenary celebrations.
Showing in the Studio: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen A woman tries to break free from the confines of her marriage in this classic by a master of European drama.
Colder Than Here by Laura Wade The regional première of a life-affirming play about a mother trying to plan her own funeral in the face of resistance from her family.
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Roma and the Flannelettes: A Love Like Yours by Richard Cameron A world première from the writer of The Glee Club, set in a women’s refuge in Yorkshire and featuring Sixties Motown karaoke. Saturday 19 May – Saturday 10 November Booking opens Monday 2 April at 9.30am
Christmas
Keep up-to-date on the details of our Christmas production for 2012 by regularly checking
www.theatrebythelake.com
To find out more or to book online visit
www.keswick.org
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