Get Bard in the Library

Shakespeare in 40 minutes at Wootton Fields Library: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed by well-known actor Tony Howes who has appeared on television in shows such as Doctors, Emmerdale and Midsommer Murders.

Wootton Fields Library, Wednesday 14th July, 7 – 8pm, (doors open at 6.45pm). Tickets for the event cost £3 each or £10 for a family ticket, available now from Wootton Fields Library. For more information please contact Wootton Fields Library – (01604) 669213. e mail woollib@northamptonshire.gov.uk.

Every Vote Counts by Keith Large

A complete staged reading of the new script by Keith Large
Sunday Jan.24th, Larkin Studio at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge
Curtain 5 PM
Reservations essential

A full staged reading of Leicestershire playwright Keith Large’s political comedy/satire EVERY VOTE COUNTS features three actors including Steve Kantor as Adolf, a disgruntled old man who holds a canvasser held hostage on election night sometime in the near future. With the typical mix of sharp dialogue, witty observations, and unique characters that Keith Large showed in the offbeat comedy THE CARROT NAPPERS, this fully staged reading (directed by Francesca Brown) will entertain and delight you.

Play Submissions, The Group

Deadline: contact for info – London
Submissions are now being sought by London-based The Group. read more…

Meet The Agents! New Writing South

In association with the Writers’ Guild, join four top literary agents working with playwrights, screenwriters and authors in conversation with Chris Taylor, Director, New Writing South.
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Routes And Pathways Into a Professional Playwriting Career

A one-day conference hosted by Script Yorkshire in partnership with Hull Truck Theatre and literaturetraining. read more…

TriskeleWrites

03 Mar 2009 – ongoing.
TriskeleWrites is a fantastic new venture offering a range of services for writers who want to improve their craft. read more…

The Write House

Peshkar are launching a new writing programme in partnership with the Oldham Coliseum’s Wordsmith ’09 Festival. It’s all about British Asian experiences, but anybody can attend if they want. You just have to have a desire to express yourself through writing for the stage read more…

Empty Bed Blues by Stephen Lowe

6-21 March 2009

Lakeside and Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) are proud to present Empty Bed Blues, which focuses on local hero D.H. Lawrence. In the last year of his life, a penniless D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, visited two wealthy American bohemians, Harry and Caresse Crosby, hoping that they would finance a new edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The Crosbys’ passionate experiment the in total excess of living collides with the Lawrences’ more painful relationship revealing a major clash of culture, class and sexual desire. Based on the diaries of all four characters, Empty Bed Blues is a tragic-comic stage poem on life, death, and, above all else, the nature of love and betrayal.

Empty Bed Blues is written by local playwright Stephen Lowe who received critical acclaim for his hi-tech techno-thriller, Smile, and his Brian Clough comedy, Old Big ‘Ead in the Spirit of the Man.

“Stephen Lowe uses this visit brilliantly and movingly to bring into focus the stresses in the relationship between Lawrence and Frieda in those final years”
- Professor Keith Sagar, author of The Life of DH Lawrence.

“The best dramatisation of Lawrence I’ve ever seen or read.”
- Dr John Worthen, author of D.H. Lawrence – The Outsider.

Empty Bed Blues is at Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham from 6-21 March at 8pm with matinees on Saturday 14 and Thursday 19 March at 2pm. Tickets are £12(£9 concession) for the evening performances and £7(£5 concession) for the matinees.

Please call 0115 846 7777 or visit www.lakesidearts.org.uk for more information or to book your tickets.