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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
by Dale Wasserman from the book by Ken Kesey
April 30th to May 3rd –
Harrogate Studio Theatre
Randle Patrick McMurphy is transferred from the prison farm to a mental institution for evaluation. He imagines it will be a breeze, but he does not factor in Nurse Ratched who runs the ward. She keeps her patients cowed through medication, electroconvulsive therapy and abuse. There follows a battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched which is hilarious, herioc and tragic.
Notes from a Small Island
by Tim Witnall from the book by Bill Bryson
June 25th to 28th –
Harrogate Studio Theatre
It’s 1973, and a young Bill Bryson arrives on the ferry at Dover. On his travels, he has to deal with counterpanes, kippers, Cadbury’s Curly Wurlies, and Mrs Smegma – the landlady’s – eccentric house rules. Bill Bryson’s smash-hit memoir Notes from a Small Island spent three years in The Sunday Times bestseller list, sold over two million copies, and was voted the book which best represents the UK.
Goodnight Mr Tom
by Brian Finch from the book by Michelle Magorian
October 16th to 18th –
Harrogate Theatre Main House
In this tale, set during World War II a curmudgeonly widower is forced to take in a nine-year-old evacuee from London. He soon realises that the boy has been both mentally and physically damaged at the hands of his strict mother. He sets about teaching him to read, write and draw, but as his tenth birthday looms, the boy is summoned back to the city.