A young actor will return to his home town of Barrow to play the lead role in 25 Words – Theatre Factory’s new real-life wartime drama.
Harry Crooks, 24, left the town five years ago to study actor musicianship at Leeds Conservatoire.
Next month he returns to the town to play the lead in 25 Words – the true story of a Barrow family in World War Two.
Harry plays Michael in the production, which will see him tread the boards at Barrow Town Hall on November 8 and November 9.
Harry began his acting journey as a child, attending Theatre Factory’s Youth Theatre and he said it was where he got a hunger for drama.
He said: “It was such a good time for me. So to come back now is really lovely. I feel like I’m honouring a seed that was planted way back then.
“I think the time I spent at youth theatre steered me towards becoming a full-time creative as opposed to staying and maybe starting work at the shipyard.”
Harry has been travelling the country over summer as part of a touring theatre show, which he said was very different to acting in his home town next month.
He said: “While on tour you are performing to strangers. There’s a nice disconnect to that as you don’t really know the audience. That will completely change when I return home to play Michael in 25 Words.
“It will feel a little scary. But the predominant feeling is pride. To be playing a part in telling this important Barrow story. To have gone away to study acting and then come back and present to an audience in my hometown feels very special.”
Tickets for 25 Words are free or by donation at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/theatre-factory/e-ddlggp
