1984 Rehearsals are underway!

Monday saw the arrival of Northern Broadsides and our 1984 cast at The Dukes! A full read through on Tuesday left everyone very excited to see the final production.

Carolyn Tomkinson - Katherine





Chris Garner- O'Brien, Andrew Price - Syme






Nick Haverson - Winston






The first morning.






Conrad Nelson- The Director

1984 will be running at The Dukes from Thursday 16 September - Saturday 9 October



Tickets are available from The Dukes box office on 01524 589500 and more details can be found at http://www.dukes-lancaster.org/.

Galileo – From Stage to Screen

Earlier this year members of Dukes Youth Theatre and students from Ripley High School and Lancaster University presented a knock out production of ‘Galileo’ written by local professor, Bob Jones.

The Institute of Physics were very impressed with the production and commissioned the Creative Learning Department to re-make the production as an educational film.

So, again our intrepid young actors donned costumes and hair pieces and descended on various locations around the city to shoot their filmic interpretation of the life and work of Galileo Galilee.

The film is now in post production and will be released to Secondary School Science and History departments in October 2010.









For more information about the project or to receive a copy of the film please contact Guy Christiansen, Creative learning Director on 01524 598516

Hunter and Hunted on the iPhone

Members of DT3 are embarking on an exciting new project putting Lancaster well and truly on the digital map. As part of Blaze young producers are creating an iPhone game to play round the streets of our city.

Try out the Hunter and Hunted game at The Dukes on Thursday 26th August & Friday 27th August from 1pm - 7pm. To book a slot to play the game around Lancaster, contact The Dukes box office on 01524 596500. More info here.

Jack, one of our young producers, has written a blog entry about his experiences of starting work on Hunter & Hunted...

Game designing- a tricky business!

Hello!

Now when I was told we were gonna design a game for the iphone to put Lancaster on the map, I thought it would be a tough job, with so many options open to us thanks to the range of features on the iphone coupled with my shamefull level of technical ability I knew we needed outside help. This came from two game designers from mobilepie and slingshot games who were able to shape my ludite level ramblings into something fast approaching an idea! This idea then split into three ideas, which have now been mixed and distilled into one great idea, an idea that I will tell you more about when I have learnt the techspeak to articulate it. What I do know is it will be exciting, new, thrilling and put Lancaster on the map for a whole new set of reasons. I’m also certain the final product will be something for blaze to be proud of, and people of Lancaster too!

Cheers, J