One of Northumberland's most recognisable landmarks is set to be transformed into an outdoor theatre this summer.
Northumberlandia, also known as the Lady of the North, is the largest landform structure of a human in the entire world, and will host two theatre performances in August including an adaptation of Shakespeare on bicycles. The HandleBards are a troupe of bicycle-powered Shakespearean actors who carry all of their props and costumes on their bikes and will be rocking up to the Cramlington site on Thursday August 11 to deliver a performance of Twelfth Night .
Written between 1601 and 1602, the play is said to be a hilarious yet heartbreaking tale of unrequited love and features a young woman named Viola who disguises herself as a man and becomes entangled in the courtship of two aristocrats, upending conventions of romance and gender roles. It's not the HandleBards' first show at Northumberlandia, having previously performed As You Like It , Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing .
