Ruaraidh Murray plays Jim.  He has previously appeared on stage in a major tour of Irvine Welsh’s 'Trainspotting', in a number of films including the feature films 'New Town Killers' and 'Beyond The Rave'. 

Spencer Charles Noll played Donald in 'Lord Arthur’s Bed' at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in May 2009 for which he won the Michael MacLiammoir Award for best actor. He has just finished playing Peter in a new musical production of 'Peter Pan' at The Curve in Leicester.

Theatre North, based in Yorkshire and in Brighton, has produced 25 plays and toured extensively since 2001.  Productions have included 'Titus Andronicus', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'Tom Jones'.  Its 2007 national tour of Sarah Kane's 'Blasted' and 2008/9 tour of 'Lord Arthur’s Bed' played to sell-out houses and  its latest show 'Naked Homo' will be performed at the 2010 Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

Writer/Director Martin Lewton has had nineteen plays and adaptations performed professionally including 'Prisoners' (Leeds/Nottingham Playhouses), 'Room at the Top' (Nottingham Playhouse), 'Edwin Drood' (York Theatre Royal), 'One Fat Lady' (Victoria Theatre), 'Life Models' (Lancaster Grand and regional tour), 'Death by Murder' (Northern tour) 'Lord Arthur’s Bed' (Lowry and national tour) and 'Naked Homo' (Marlborough Theatre Brighton) He was Resident Dramatist at Nottingham Playhouse for four years and has directed more than 20 plays.

www.theatrenorth.co.uk

Contains nudity and adult themes. Age16+

Tickets prices:  Premium £19.50  Standard £16  Concessions £12.50

Times: 7.30 Tuesday to Saturday plus 3.30 Saturday and Sunday

Please book online / 0844 209 0326 (booking fee applies)
Alternatively book in person at the Kings Head from 4pm onwards (no booking fee)

Lord Arthur's Bed

By Martin Lewton

March 2nd - 28th 7.30pm

March 30th - April 10th Tues- Sat 10.00pm

Tickets

£19.50 Reserved Seating

£16 General Seating

£12.50 Concs (General Seating)

2008 - City slickers Donald and Jim are celebrating their civil partnership. 

1868 - Wealthy young cross-dressers Ernest (Stella) and Fred (Fanny) are celebrating Stella's 'marriage' to Lord Arthur Clinton MP.    

LORD ARTHUR'S BED weaves these two stories together, dramatizing the farcical trial that gripped the  nation 25 years before the downfall of Oscar Wilde. In Fanny and Stella's extraordinary, comical and true story that led them to a sensational trial before the Lord Chief Justice of England in 1870, two modern men find a hidden history and some uncomfortable truths that threaten to wreck their new life together.

Opening at the Brighton Festival in May 2008, the play ,  which contains nudity and scenes of gay sex,  was denounced in the Brighton Argus for being performed in a church.  Their reviewer later described it as “a raw play that tackles homosexual issues head on.”

**** Reviews

“An evening of gay delight” Manchester Evening News

“A raw play that tackles homosexual issues head on” Brighton Argus