LANCASHIRE film-making pioneers, Mitchell and Kenyon, are the focus of a new play which premieres at The Dukes.

The Life And Times Of Mitchell and Kenyon is a celebration of the factory-gate film-makers who showed audiences their world as they’d never seen it before and made cinema history along the way.

The co-production between The Dukes, Lancaster and Oldham Coliseum Theatre runs until May 10 in Lancaster and from May 15-31 in Oldham.

The play laced with songs is the brainchild of award-winning director Amy Leach, who hails from Darwen, near Blackburn, where Mitchell and Kenyon were based in the Edwardian era.

And its been written by the Lancaster-based awardwinning playwright and screenwriter, Daragh Carville. He brings Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon back to life to tell the story of a unique film-making partnership whose collection of ‘local films for local people’ is now regarded as a national treasure.

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