Theatre By The Lake Announces Spring - Summer Programme 2024
Theatre by the Lake
Announces an eclectic mix of musicals, comedies, northern stories and new adaptations of classic literature, for its programme covering Spring-Summer 2024.
The Season Begins with the
Mean Green Monster musical Little Shop of Horrors
Wednesday 27 March – Saturday 20 April 2024
Weedy flower shop assistant Seymour is down on his luck until he stumbles across a mysterious plant with killer potential.
Will fame and fortune help to win the girl of his dreams, or will the plant’s appetite get out of control?
Filled with hilarity and incredible rock music.
Little Shop of Horrors is presented in a coproduction from Theatre by the Lake,
Octagon Theatre Bolton, Hull Truck Theatre and New Wolsey Theatre
and will be directed by Lotte Wakeham, who’s last TBTL production was One Man, Two Guvnors.
Jane Austen’s Coming of Age Story
Northanger Abbey
Saturday 27 April – Friday 17 May 2024
Gets a new take from writer Zoe Cooper.
Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real life experience when you have novels?
When she meets worldly sophisticated Isabella Thorpe her very own adventure begins.
Directed by Tessa Walker.
A Northern Classic
Brassed Off
Friday 28 June – Saturday 27 July 2024
Brass runs in Shane’s family, and in the midst of yet another cost of living crisis,
he looks back on the last great battle for the local pit and the defiant glory of Grimley Colliery Band.
Based on the smash hit film and featuring local brass bands
Brassed Off is full of grit, heart and northern humour.
Peepolykus’s adaptation of
The Hound of the Baskervilles
directed by Peepolykus’s John Nicholson
Friday 9 August – Saturday 7 September 2024
The world’s most famous detective gets a hilarious makeover in this spectacularly theatrical comedy.
A terrible murder, a terrifying curse, a killer on the loose and a gigantic beast on the moor; this sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes!
This West End hit adaptation takes all the familiar elements of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale
through an exhilarating ride of ridiculously funny performances witty dialogue and buckets of chaos.
Tilted Wig and Malvern Theatres open their 2024 tour of
The School for Scandal
Thursday 7 – Saturday 16 March 2024
Deliciously naughty and outrageously silly
This timeless comedy is a masterclass in social satire and the art of gossip.
Sir Peter Teazle believes his young wife is sleeping with someone else.
She isn’t. But she’s starting to think if her husband believes it, she may as well give it a go.
Last but certainly not least. Christmas 2024 is on sale now
The Jungle Book
Friday 15 November 2024 – Sunday 5 January 2025
Featuring loveable characters, catchy songs and charming puppetry, Jessica Swale’s adaptation of The Jungle Book is a high flying adventure for children ages 6+ and their families.
Raised in the Indian jungle, Mowgli the man cub spends his boyhood days running wild with his wolf friends.
When he finds himself confronted by the evil tiger Shere Khan he must learn the law of the jungle and discover who he truly is to escape the tiger’s jaws.
Directed by Kash Arshad.