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Live Theatre Gaines new apprentice Wednesday, February 18, 2015 This week we welcomed our latest recruit in the shape of 18 year old Tristan Gaines who has joined the company in the role of technical apprentice READ MORE Young cast announced for Day of the Flymo, a new play by Paddy Campbell, the award-winning writer of Wet House Thursday, February 12, 2015 Three young actors from Live’s Youth Theatre have been cast for Day of the Flymo, a brand new play written by award-winning playwright Paddy Campbell (Wet House). Day of the Flymo looks at the chaotic lives of three young people as their family life falls apart. The World Premiere of Day of the Flymo is at Live Theatre, Newcastle from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 April 2015 and is Paddy’s second full length play. READ MORE Sell out hit Donna Disco returns to Live Theatre to kick off National Tour Monday, February 9, 2015 Rehearsals start at Live Theatre this week for the return of sell-out hit Donna Disco by Lee Mattinson (Chalet Lines) in preparation for a National Tour which kicks off at the Newcastle Theatre from Thursday 26 February to Saturday 28 February at 7.30pm. The play, which was described as “A tour de force of writing, acting and directing...”, is a one-woman show about a larger-than-life and disenfranchised fourteen-year-old girl Donna who develops an unlikely, but ultimately life-changing, friendship with her colourful cross-dressing neighbour Stuart. READ MORE Multi-award winning play Fleabag comes to Live Theatre Thursday, February 5, 2015 The multi-award winning production of Fleabag from DryWrite and Soho Theatre comes to Live Theatre, Newcastle at 7.30pm Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4 March, as part of a UK. Since its first work in progress at Soho Theatre, the writer of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been announced as joint winner of the Critics’ Circle Most Promising Playwright 2013, alongside Rory Kinnear; won the Stage Best Solo Performer 2013 as well as two Off West End Awards for Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance. Waller-Bridge has also been nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre. READ MORE Betts on for dramatic political encounter Tuesday, February 3, 2015 In the run up and aftermath of the Election voters are being invited to Live Theatre for the world premiere of What Falls Apart written by Torben Betts. READ MORE Celebrate the re-launch of Live Lab with a week of exciting new work as it is shared for the very first time Thursday, January 15, 2015 2015 marks the re-launch of Live Theatre’s Live Lab programme with more opportunities for READ MORE What does it mean to be broke? Tuesday, January 13, 2015 Multi award-winning theatre company The Paper Birds (On the One Hand, Thirsty, In A Thousand Pieces) have used real life stories from the front line of poverty and debt in the UK to create a new piece of verbatim theatre called Broke which will be presented at Live Theatre this February. READ MORE A pioneering new theatre company present a double bill of plays by award-winning writer Robin French Tuesday, December 23, 2014 From Robin French, the award-winning writer of Bear Hug (Royal Court) and screenwriter of Cuckoo (BBC 3), comes a double bill of piercingly funny and irreverent plays about what it means to live and love in the 21st century – with Ikea and cannibalism. READ MORE Work starts on Live Theatre’s LiveWorks Quayside development project with Brims Construction on site Friday, December 5, 2014 WORK has begun on a key £10m development which will help complete one of Tyneside’s most iconic views. In February this year Newcastle’s Live Theatre’s purchased Quayside land and buildings to create LiveWorks - a development of commercial office space, a public park and a children and young people’s writing centre, READ MORE Theatre director honoured for taking North East talent to global audiences Tuesday, December 2, 2014 Max Roberts, Artistic Director of Newcastle’s Live Theatre, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Hon DLitt.) recognising the international profile he has created for the region through theatre at Northumbria University, Newcastle today (2 December 2014). 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