Alice in Wonderland, The Dukes, Williamson Park, Lancaster
Full disclosure: my mother’s family had a wonderful old copy of Alice in Wonderland with the...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Jul 24, 2024 | Arts, Theatre
Full disclosure: my mother’s family had a wonderful old copy of Alice in Wonderland with the...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Jun 10, 2024 | Archives
The title’s a teaser. Has departing Dukes director Joe Sumsion gone the full Rick Wakeman in his final production and decided that what an everyday story of Northern folk needs is a touch of Las Vegas, Frozen-style? In fact, The...
Read MorePosted by Stephen Longstaffe | Jun 10, 2024 | Archives
I never did read The Hobbit. Our village library had a copy but getting hold of it was about as easy as, well, stealing dragon’s treasure. In the end I made do with Lord of the Rings – or rather, the final two-thirds. The...
Read MorePosted by Helen Nugent | Jun 10, 2024 | Archives
Northern Soul has teamed up with The Dukes in Lancaster to offer a family ticket to the UK’s biggest outdoor walkabout theatre season. The award-winning theatre presents The Hobbit in Lancaster’s glorious Williamson Park from...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Jun 10, 2024 | Archives
Williamson Park in Lancaster is one of the most beautiful parks in the country. On a slope to the west of the city, it has been landscaped to create wooded dells, walkways at various levels, open grassland, a boating lake with...
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