Theatre @ ACW
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Hands on NE present...
26 July 2018
The World Premier!
A play by David Farne
With Phillipa Wilson (Emmerdale/ Eastenders/ Pitman Painters on Broadway)
Directed by Neil Armstrong
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02 August 2018
Terry Patterson's play looks at family life with both drama and comedy set on The Ridges Estate, now Meadow Well in the 1980s. An out of work father, tensions build as they struggle to cope through thatchers reign.
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Washington Theatre Group present...
30 August 2018 - 01 September 2018
“Murder in Play” is a play within a play. When Boris Smolensky’s third-rate repertory company decides to produce “Murder at Priorswell Manor” chaos ensues, since the actors are more interested in their own egos than the quality of the production; and life imitates art when Boris’s wife, Renée, is murdered on stage.
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Middle Child present...
04 October 2018
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship? With the promise of fresh excitement just a swipe away, is Kat’s long-term lover really her lifelong dream?
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13 October 2018
Escapology, contortion, comedy and unbelievable magic from the North East’s greatest magician Chris Cross. As seen on CBBC’s ‘The Slammer’.
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Baby Love Productions present...
18 October 2018
From the husband and wife performing team that brought you Baby Love, Love Songs is a moving and humorous play, by Tom Kelly, celebrated North East playwright and writer of The Dolly Mixtures, I Left My Heart In Roker Park and Geordie the Musical. It also features iconic songs like Bridge Over Troubled Water, Somewhere, True Love Ways, Love Me Tender & Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
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Matchbox Theatre present...
19 October 2018 - 20 October 2018
Standby for the ultimate Agatha Christie spoof, as Inspector Drake, ably hampered by Sergeant Plod, interviews a colourful confusion of characters. There's Guest the butler, Cook the gardener, Gardner the cook, Butler the guest, and another butler called Shofer.
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Time Works Theatre present...
31 October 2018
One thought, one conception, one purpose … the unfolding of the deepest mysteries of creation…
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley’s terrifying novel of Gothic horror, Frankenstein, was first published. Its purpose: to consider the unholiest of all questions – what if man were to discover the power of God?
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Box Tale Soup present...
08 November 2018
Award winning Box Tale Soup (Northanger Abbey) present Oscar Wilde's haunting story of evil, debauchery and scandal, featuring puppetry and a powerful original soundtrack.
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A Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre production in association with Latitude Festival present...
15 November 2018
Written by Anna Jordan
For anyone that’s ever been a dick on the dance floor.
A wedding. A free bar. A blast from the past.
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Matchbox Theatre present...
23 November 2018 - 24 November 2018
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated for the stage.
Follow the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.
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The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty present...
29 November 2018
Following the success of last year’s ‘The Book of Darkness and Light’, Adam Z Robinson returns with a trio of delightfully thrilling new ghost stories, set to the haunting sounds of the violin.
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The Pantaloons present...
14 December 2018
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens' fantastical festive fable.
It's Christmas Eve and tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge is meaner than ever. He is shunning his only living relative, underpaying his clerk and refusing to acknowledge the plight of the poor... but will timely visits from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future change his miserly ways before it's too late?
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