What's on in the North East

Published: 31 August 2014
Reporter: Peter Lathan

The Mousetrap
I Promise You Sex and Violence
Anthem for a Doomed Youth

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap returns to Newcastle's Theatre Royal from Monday to Saturday.

Artistic Director Lorne Campbell directs David Ireland's I Promise You Sex and Violence in Stage 2 at Northern Stage from Friday to 20 September.

Mixtape: Boy Bands v Girl Bands—part theatre show and part pop quiz—is at Live Theatre on Friday.

Rowan McCabe's North East Rising, a one person show of performance poetry, theatre and stand-up, comes to Arts Centre Washington on Thursday.

Camisado Club presents Send More Paper at the Customs House in South Shields on Friday.

Anthem for a Doomed Youth, poems and stories from the Trenches of WWI compiled & performed by Guy Masterson, comes to The Maltings in Berwick on Saturday (hear Guy Masterson talk about this in our podcast).

The Phoenix Theatre Company presents Kes on Friday and Saturday at the Phoenix Theatre in Blyth.

Cloud Nine Theatre Company presents Peter Mortimer's new play Death at Dawn, inspired by the story of a North Shields soldier in World War I, at the Linskill Centre in North Shields from Monday to Saturday.

ARC Stockton's regular ARCADE Scatch Night is on Wednesday.

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