National shows set for Web's new season

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The Web Theatre in North Street are delighted to be bringing a great variety of professional touring acts from across the UK to Newtownards for the first time this season.

Curtain goes up this Thursday January 14 with The Key To The Garden, written and performed by Rachel Laurence. Stage and screen actress Rachel Laurence (pictured) from Manchester brings this one woman play based on the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett to the theatre, telling the story of a remarkable woman who rose from genteel poverty in Salford to earn a fortune, become a close friend of the president of the USA, and a pioneering author of classic books such as The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy. An enchanting evening not to be missed, show starts tonight at 8 pm, admission £10/8.

On Friday February 5, you can enjoy An Evening Of Charles Dickens Ghost Stories, performed by Russell Kennedy. This two-act adaptation of Charles Dickens' eerie ghost stories is guaranteed to send shivers down the sturdiest of spines.

The production consists of three hair-raising stories The Ghost in the Brides Chamber, The Trail for Murder and Dickens most famous tale The Signalman. When Russell performed this show at the Buxton Opera House Paupers Pit it sold out a month in advance. Show starts at 8 pm.

Lady Wilde takes to the stage at 8 pm on Thursday March 4, performed by Patricia Leventon.

Patricia portrays the life of Sperenza, the mother of Oscar Wilde in a fascinating story of an early advocate for women's rights.

Patricia, currently residing in London trained at the Gaiety School of Acting Dublin and during her professional career has appeared with the Royal National Theatre Company, The Royal

Shakespeare Company and in numerous film, TV and radio roles.

Thursday March 11 brings The Trials of Harvey Matusow to the Web, written and performed by Robert Cohen. Set in the late 1960s Robert Cohen's one-man show finds Matusow in self imposed exile in England looking back on a journey that took him from the Bronx, to the heart of

Senator McCarthy's Washington as a paid government informer before setting the cat amongst the pigeons by admitting that almost all of his evidence had been lies. Then the struggle

for redemption among the underground art worlds of New York and London.

The renowned Bruiser Theatre Company present The Resistible Rise of Artuto Ul by Bertold Brecht 8 pm on Saturday March 13. In this alarming and savagely hilarious allegory of Hitler's rise to power, six actors/musicians play over 50 characters to bring the story to life.

The battle for political status and the corruption of power still fills our newspapers in 2010.

Bangor and Ards Three Act Drama Festival 2010 takes place at the theatre from March 22 to 27.

There will be a superb line-up of drama company's bringing a top selection of productions including:

Harold Pinters The Caretaker; Edward Albees Three Tall Women; Untavelling the Ribbon by Mary Kelly & Maureen White; Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Copenhagen by Michael Frayn and concluding with Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit.

Tickets are priced £8 for each night of the festival or £35 for a season ticket.

For information or to book for any of the shows contact the Box Office on 02891 828234.