Arts and business combined with a festive flourish as East Riding Theatre (ERT) performers entertained industry guests at a Local Transport Projects industry gathering.
Beverley, East Yorkshire-based Local Transport Projects (LTP) is one of the UK’s leading independent transport practices and teamed up with the town’s theatre company, which itself is garnering national acclaim for its productions.
ERT, and former Royal Shakespeare Company, actor Richard Avery and musician, actor Rachel Barnes, of She Productions, also based at ERT, presented transport-themed songs and stories to guitar and cello accompaniment for about 50 guests.
Tony Kirby, LTP director, said: “There’s some amazing talent here in East Yorkshire across the arts and business, and with Hull as the UK’s City of Culture in 2017, we wanted to use the first Christmas in our new offices to highlight to our guests some of the region’s superb performance artists.”
Established in 2004, LTP provides transport planning, traffic engineering and highway design services to local government, developers, health providers and the education sector. In the summer of 2016, the company moved to prestigious new offices in Armstrong House in Beverley’s new Flemingate project.
Nearby ERT is a professional theatre set up in 2014 to produce top class shows. The company’s current production of Dickens’ Great Expectations, which runs until January 7, 2017, has just been given a 4* rating in The Stage for a ‘fast paced and haunting take on Dickens’ novel’.