DESPITE the lockdown,. theatre fans can still see venerable actress Maxine Peaketread the boards once again in a bold and gripping new play in Bangor.

The star of Peterloo, Shameless and dinnerladies will take to the stage in NT: Live's The Welkin which is still set to screen live to Pontio from the National Theatre in London on Thursday, May 21 May 2020 at 7pm.

Set in Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.

When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.

James Macdonald - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - directs Peake and Ria Zmitrowicz - of Three Girls and Mr Selfridge - in this bold and gripping thriller from Tony Award-nominated writer of Skins Lucy Kirkwood.

When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.

With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.

Tickets are £13, with concessions, from pontio.co.uk.