Manchester's The Library Theatre Company moves on

A new season of productions at The Lowry

With Manchester's Central Library closed for renovation, the Library Theatre company is without a home. That doesn't mean that it's out of action.

Instead, the company will be performing at a number of theatres around Manchester from until its new home at the Theatre Royal on Peter Street is ready for them to move in. As well as three productions per year at The Lowry, a programme of productions in non-theatre city centre sites will run from summer 2011.

The first production from the newly mobile company is Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Set in an elegant country house in the Derbyshire countryside in two different time periods 200 years apart, Arcadia explores a range of subjects including love, sex, history, landscape gardening, Newtonian physics, and chaos theory. Rightly regarded as a modern classic, this witty comic literary detective story runs between Thursday 23 September and Saturday 9 October 2010.

Arcadia is followed for the festive season by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The tale of the Ebenezer Scrooge, the world's most notorious miser will maintain the Library Theatre Company's reputation for presenting seasonal shows which put the spotlight on first-class story-telling allied to values which treat children as serious theatre-goers. Catch it at The Lowry between 3 December 2010 and 8 January 2011.

The company's third production at The Lowry is Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. This great play caused a storm when it was given its world premiere in 1879 and still has the power to shock. It looks at what happens when Nora, totally devoted to her husband, risks her reputation in order to save his life, only to find herself struggling for her own. A Doll's House will run between Thursday 24 February and Saturday 12 March 2011.

For more information visit librarytheatre.com