Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Patrick Barlow’s 2013 take on A Christmas Carol offers a wryly deconstructed Dickens for the Christmas period. There are plenty of carols,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
One of the most interesting things about Theatre by the Lake’s relentless producing schedule is the way it pushes plays conceived for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMFriday, September 27, 2019
Alan Ayckbourn’s version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya transposes the action to 1930s Ennerdale in the Lake District. Ayckbourn’s version lightens Chekhov’s mood
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
Lucy Kirkwood’s 2016 play The Children is set in the aftermath of an accident at a British nuclear power station. Married couple
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Theatre by the Lake has staged both Abigail’s Party and Educating Rita in recent years. Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play The Rise and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Charlotte Keatley’s 1987 play about mothers and daughters relies on the audience knowing more than the characters. My Mother Said I Never
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Graham Linehan’s 2012 stage adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy is a deft and funny ensemble piece that contains plenty of nods
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMMonday, April 29, 2019
It’s now 40 years since Willy Russell wrote his two-hander about a working-class Open University student finding herself through learning about literature.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMMonday, March 25, 2019
For the opening show of its 2019 season, Theatre by the Lake picks up where its 2017 production of Miss Julie left
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:35AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Laurence Boswell has given his perennial favourite Beauty and the Beast another revision for this year’s Theatre by the Lake Christmas show,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMMonday, August 13, 2018
The fifth and final opening of Theatre by the Lake’s summer rep season gives us the entire company in Jane Austen’s comedy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Theatre by the Lake’s studio usually offers audiences a contemporary work or a modern classic in contrast to the more mainstream main
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMMonday, June 18, 2018
Single Spies is, in large part, a deep dive into the culture which produced and protected the Cambridge spy ring during the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Keswick’s Main House summer season opener is the Goodale brothers’ adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters, first seen in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMMonday, March 26, 2018
Theatre by the Lake’s first production of the year is a revival of a piece written nearly two decades ago for its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Theatre by the Lake tends to go in for Christmas shows rather than pantomime. Jessica Swale’s new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
The final opening of Theatre by the Lake’s summer season is something of a coup: a new play from Laura Eason, writer/producer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
You couldn’t better the timing. As You Like It is possibly Shakespeare’s most pastoral play, and this Keswick production opened on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMWednesday, July 5, 2017
What servants really think of their masters is a dramatic theme that goes right back to classical Roman comedy. Howard Brenton’s new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Moira Buffini’s Handbagged is an antidote to the view of history, common on both stage and screen, that reduces it to palace
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance is a bit of a curate’s egg. Premiering in 1939, it ran for only short time and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Nicholas Pierpan’s new play is structured around a striking sequence of images. It opens with poet William Wordsworth alone on a summit,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:42AMMonday, March 20, 2017
The inaugural season from Theatre by the Lake’s new artistic director/chief executive Conrad Lynch promises much new: world premieres, co-productions, more touring.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
The Emperor and the Nightingale is the Keswick swansong for director Ian Forrest and designer Martin Johns, both of whom are leaving
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM 
