SOME of the best young actors in the region are gearing up for a triple dose of theatre based on the 1960s.

Staged by Trish Gordon’s ever-inventive and entertaining Brewery Youth Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, November 26/27 (7pm) the youngsters perform Liz Lochhead’s Cuba and two other pieces, Whistle Down the Sixties and Ticket to Ride.

Cuba (performed by the 15-18s group) is set during the Cuban missile crisis when two 14-year old ‘best friends’ - Barbara (played by Mandy Williams) and Bernadette (Lorna Harrison) - find their friendship changed irrevocably by the events that took place during 1962 in the scary “three days when the world stood still.” B, the narrator, is played by Ruth Waters.

Two other pieces, from the BYT 11-14 groups, are also on the Kendal arts centre’s bill. Whistle Down The Sixties, a devised performance piece, which takes an irreverent romp through the key events of the decade that changed the course of history, is fast, furious and anarchic. Ticket to Ride, written by Brewery Youth Theatre member Jason Airey, is a short play based on a fictional concert in Kendal by the Beatles. It is packed with music and video footage and poses the question of whether ‘long-haired louts’ should be allowed to disturb the peace of the auld grey town? The locals, gathered in protest at the town hall, decide! Tickets cost £3 and are available at the Brewery box office on 01539-725133.