A FAMILIAR face will be visible at Abbot Hall next week.

Not inside the acclaimed Kendal gallery it must be pointed out but within the world's first pop-up, plug-in-and-play, theatre, which will be in situ on the old bowling green.

Sian Reese-Williams - who played Gennie, one of the Dingle family in television soap Emmerdale until 2013 - shares the spotlight with fellow actors Sidney Cole and Abdul Salis in three of four productions being staged by Paines Plough Theatre Company.

Many regard London-based Paines Plough as the national theatre of new writing, renowned for its cutting-edge pieces, and from Wednesday, September 30 until October 3, brings its portable, self-contained 168-seater auditorium, Roundabout, to Kendal as part of a series of special performances organised by the Brewery Arts Centre.

In Duncan Macmillan's piece Lungs Sian plays a woman deciding whether it's right to have a baby in this day and age. In The Human Ear written by Fringe First Award winner Alexandra Wood, she's a woman whose recently lost her mother and is faced with her long lost brother again, and in the hilarious school-based comedy Our Teacher's A Troll by Dennis Kelly, who wrote West End hit Matilda the Musical, takes on 10 different characters, from an eight year old girl to the prime minister.

Every Brilliant Thing, a touching, uplifting show about living with depression, again penned by Duncan Macmillan, features actor-comedian Jonny Donahoe in a one-man show which interacts with the audience.

Performances:

Wednesday, September 30 - Lungs (7pm) and Every Brilliant Thing (9pm).

Thursday, October 1 - Our Teacher's A Troll (10.30am and 1.30pm); The Human Ear (7.30pm).

Friday, October 2 - Our Teacher's A Troll (1.30pm); Lungs (7.30pm)

Saturday, October 3 - Our Teacher's A Troll (2pm); The Human Ear (5pm); Lungs (7.30pm).

For details visit www.breweryarts.co.uk or call box office on 01539-725133.