Juliet Barker and LipService

Alerts for today, March 9:

1. A talk at the Words by the Water in Keswick (Cumbria) organised by Ways With Words:

Juliet Barker
The Brontës Revisited
Wednesday 9 March, 12 noon
Main House

In 1994 Juliet Barker wrote a definitive biography of the Brontë family. It was a spectacular achievement: a vivid picture of nineteenth-century Yorkshire, a treasure trove of new information and, most of all, an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. Now it has been republished, revised and updated. Internationally regarded as a foremost expert on the Brontës she introduces this astonishing family.

2.  In Settle, North Yorkshire

LipService Theatre
Withering Looks

Settle Victoria Hall 7.30 pm

LipService, Britain’s favourite literary lunatics are 25 this season.

As part of their celebrations, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding reprise their cult Brontë spoof Withering Looks. They could hardly turn down this opportunity to dust off their crinolines, wear flattering bonnets and sit at rain-lashed windows in a pale and decorative manner.

Withering Looks takes an “authentic” look at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters – well, two of them actually, Anne’s just popped out for a cup of sugar. Peopled with many of the characters we know and love, and some quite frankly that LipService have made up, Withering Looks is irreverent and a theatre treat to savour.

Categories: Humour, Talks, Theatre