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Peacock and Gamble show is pacy, fun, delightfully ludicrous and carefully crafted.

3:20pm Monday 20th May 2013

A good double act is more than straight man and comedian.

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FREERANGE: Simon Evans review

1:54pm Sunday 19th May 2013

HOME truths, daunting realisations and a touch of controversy had a packed Brewery Arts Centre in fits of laughter Friday night.

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Germany’s premier comedy ambassador is well-worth seeing

6:40pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013

Henning Wehn has an advantage over most UK stand-ups; he has an outsider’s perspective on Britain.

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The Railway Children is festive winner for Theatre by the Lake

9:10am Friday 14th December 2012

Mike Kenny’s stage adaptation of the classic children’s novel by Edith Nesbit has excellent casting, brilliant direction and a wow-factor piece from the set designers.

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Kendal Amateur Operatic Society stage momentus 100th birthday show

8:00am Tuesday 13th November 2012

A few weeks ago Kendal Amateur Operatic Society director Graham Barker said staging Whistle Down the Wind to celebrate the society’s centenary was a “fantastic choice.”

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Surprises is another winner for Alan Ayckbourn

5:40pm Monday 12th November 2012

Alan Ayckbourn’s 76th play is further proof of the man’s true genius.

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Ambleside Players have audience rocking with laughter in Michael Conney farce

1:00pm Saturday 3rd November 2012

Is Eric Swann a pathologically lying, cross-dressing, serial benefits scrounger or can’t he be blamed for seizing the moment when the cheques from the DSS began falling into his lap?

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Theatre by the Lake stages brilliant adaptation of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations

11:53am Wednesday 3rd October 2012

This is a great adaptation of Charles Dicken’s novel for the stage, sensitively written by Neil Bartlett.

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Decadance theatre are truly extraordinary

8:23am Tuesday 25th September 2012

They came; they conquered and left the Brewery audience wanting more.

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Roma and the Flannelettes: A Love Like Yours - one of the best ever Theatre by the Lake productions

5:00pm Friday 21st September 2012

Set in a women’s refuge in a former pit village in South Yorkshire, Richard Cameron’s play has some hard hitting messages about Britain in the 21st Century.

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Oh boy what a show

11:15am Tuesday 18th September 2012

Silence is, they say, golden and a hilarious performance by The Boy With Tape On His Face at the Brewery Arts Centre was nothing short of comedy gold.

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The Dukes theatre goes walkabout with Robin Hood

11:20am Sunday 9th September 2012

ROBIN Hood and his merry men will swap Sherwood Forest for Lancaster’s Willamson Park next summer.

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Colder Than Here is a beautiful piece of theatre

8:00am Saturday 25th August 2012

A mother of two grown up daughters has terminal cancer and aims to prepare her husband and children for the world without her – and finding her perfect last resting place is the means she plans to use to bring everyone together.

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Dry Rot is brilliant farce

5:40pm Friday 24th August 2012

British theatre is renowned all over the world, but it’s not just for thought provoking Shakespeare, and more modern classics from writers such as Alan Bennett and Noel Coward. We also excel in the close cousin of the pantomime – farce.

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Cumbria Casting Agency calls for supporting artists

2:52pm Wednesday 1st August 2012

CUMBRIA Casting Agency is on the look out for some of the county’s acting talent.

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Grange Amateur Dramatic Society in fine form

8:00am Thursday 12th July 2012

When We Are Married

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Review: Performance poet John Cooper Clarke

2:20pm Monday 9th July 2012

THEY call him JCC.

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A Passion for Kendal provides something magical

10:57am Wednesday 11th April 2012

Caroline Moir’s script gave a modern voice to the 2,000 year-old story.

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Rising star brings comedic glow to winter audience

8:32am Monday 6th February 2012

Andrew Lawrence: The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal Despite the wintry conditions, which saw cars slipping and sliding outside on Highgate, the Brewery’s Malt Room was still around half full for Saturday night’s show by comedian Andrew Lawrence.

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