ARTS CENTRE’S CURTAIN CALL
Arts Centre Washington has raised the curtain on a packed season of shows after months closed due to Covid.
The autumn programme for the venue includes many shows that had to be rescheduled over the past 18 months.
Matthew Blyth, audience development officer, Arts CentreWashington, said :“It’ s been a year and a half like no other as we have spent over 12 months closed to our visitors.
“During our months of closure we had to adapt and change what we do, delivering online classes and courses, and developing digital exhibitions and performances.”
He added: “We worked on some amazing projects, including a Youth Arts exhibition takeover of The Galleries Shopping centre; our very first Facebook Live stream from the theatre and the creation and filming of some really exciting new music written by local young people with Field Music and poet Paul Summers about Washington. This last project will be something special – so keep an eye out for it!”
During the autumn season, the Arts Centre’ s theatre will be operating with reduced capacities and audiences will be expectedto wear mask sin public areas.
Highlights of the season include:
::The Killer Question, Thursday, September 23 – The Silence Of The Lambs meets Last Of The Summer Wine in a dark comedy thriller where the audience get to decide which actor plays which character.
::Sessions, Thursday, September
30 – A raw, funny, bittersweet dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy by new writer Ifeyinwa Frederick.
::Where Is Mrs Christie? Thursday, October 7 – In 1926, Ag at ha Christie was at the centre
of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction when the famous author was missing, presumed dead.
::The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, Thursday, October21–Following the final days of the Hollywood legend, revealing a biting intelligence and an imperfect body, leading us in real time to the very moment of her death.
:: A Christmas Carol, Thursday, December 16– After the success of two previous visits to Arts Centre Washington,
The Storyteller and The Musician return with an adaptationof that most famous festive ghost story.
:: Hans el and Gretel, Thursday, December9-Saturday December 11– The classic story of adventure and fun.