ENGLISH Touring Theatre presents the Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Mad World My Masters by Thomas Middleton at Darlington Civic Theatre from April 14-18
Middleton was a contemporary of Shakespeare and collaborated with the Bard on several plays. He is most famous for the 17th century tragedies The Changeling and Women Beware Women.
This play is one of his entertaining and inventive comedies set in early Jacobean London which explore a cut-throat urban world.
It takes its audience on an exhilarating ride through plots and counter plots with surprises around every corner, clever comic plotting and dialogue.
Director Sean Foley has updated the action to take place in London's Soho in 1956 where glamour rubs up against filth – and likes it.
The cast includes Joe Bannister, Ellie Beavan, Ben Deery, Dennis Herdman, Ian Redford and Sarah Ridgeway.
Tickets starts at £17.40. Recommended age 12+. Call the 01325 486 555 or visit darlingtoncivic.co.uk.
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