'Playhouse Creatures' coming to the Arts Centre - 17th & 18th May

1699, and the theatres have re-opened after seventeen years of suppression. A bawdy and troublesome new age has begun, and with it the entrance of the first English actresses allowed upon the stage. Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Barry, Rebecca Marshall, Mary Betterton: flesh and blood heroines admired by many, but living a precarious life... the gutters ever ready to reclaim them.

'Playhouse Creatures' directed by Jonathan Lewis is a Blue Aces Theatre production. In the following video Jonathan chats with some of the actors about the play and the process of putting it on the stage:
 





Blue Aces Theatre Ltd is a touring theatre company run in association with Helmsley Arts Centre and based in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. Founded by director Jonathan Lewis, the group produces high quality plays and educational workshops for local secondary schools, arts centres and theatres, (although we are keen to spread our wings and visit other areas!)

We have two ambitions. Firstly, every play we do matters to us; we choose projects with care and invest our work with a great deal of thought and passion. Secondly, we aim to give talented young actors the opportunity of working with professional performers. If you are aged between 16-30 and are serious about your acting, please get in touch.
Find out more about Blue Aces Theatre.

'Playhouse Creatures' is being performed at Helmsley Arts Centre on 17th & 18th May. Call the Box Office on 01439 771700 for tickets.

Our next film - 'War Horse' - 21 & 23 March

Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.



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