24 stories by "Stephen Longstaffe"
Patrick Barlow's 2013 take on A Christmas Carol offers a wryly deconstructed Dickens for the Christmas period. There are plenty of carols,
One of the most interesting things about Theatre by the Lake's relentless producing schedule is the way it pushes plays conceived for
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
Lucy Kirkwood's 2016 play The Children is set in the aftermath of an accident at a British nuclear power station. Married couple
Theatre by the Lake has staged both Abigail's Party and Educating Rita in recent years. Jim Cartwright's 1992 play The Rise and
Charlotte Keatley's 1987 play about mothers and daughters relies on the audience knowing more than the characters. My Mother Said I Never
Graham Linehan's 2012 stage adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy is a deft and funny ensemble piece that contains plenty of nods
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.
For the opening show of its 2019 season, Theatre by the Lake picks up where its 2017 production of Miss Julie left
Laurence Boswell has given his perennial favourite Beauty and the Beast another revision for this year's Theatre by the Lake Christmas show,
The fifth and final opening of Theatre by the Lake's summer rep season gives us the entire company in Jane Austen's comedy
Theatre by the Lake's studio usually offers audiences a contemporary work or a modern classic in contrast to the more mainstream main
Single Spies is, in large part, a deep dive into the culture which produced and protected the  Cambridge spy ring during the
Keswick's Main House summer season opener is the Goodale brothers' adaptation of PG Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters, first seen in
Theatre by the Lake's first production of the year is a revival of a piece written nearly two decades ago for its
Theatre by the Lake tends to go in for Christmas shows rather than pantomime. Jessica Swale's new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's
The final opening of Theatre by the Lake's summer season is something of a coup: a new play from Laura Eason, writer/producer
You couldn't better the timing. As You Like It is possibly Shakespeare's most pastoral play, and this Keswick production opened on the
What servants really think of their masters is a dramatic theme that goes right back to classical Roman comedy. Howard Brenton's new
Moira Buffini's Handbagged is an antidote to the view of history, common on both stage and screen, that reduces it to palace
Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a bit of a curate's egg. Premiering in 1939, it ran for only short time and
Nicholas Pierpan's new play is structured around a striking sequence of images. It opens with poet William Wordsworth alone on a summit,
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.
The Emperor and the Nightingale is the Keswick swansong for director Ian Forrest and designer Martin Johns, both of whom are leaving
