Teddy Boy ghosts give rioting teenagers some advice in young at heart theatre

Notting Hill’s race riots of 1958 are played out alongside the 2011 London riots where 17-year-old Candice finds herself facing an eerily similar situation to the one her grandfather found himself in fifty years before.

Candice, who is mixed race, is ordered by her gang-leading boyfriend to lure her friend Clint into a honey trap.

Before she can act, her recently-dead white grandad Sam turns up, accompanied by his older brother Kenny.

The 1950s Teddy Boys haunt Candice and reminding her of mistakes they once made.

Faced with a dilemma that tests her loyalties and morals, will Candice do as she is told by her boyfriend or will she learn to be true to herself before history repeats itself?

Roy Williams OBE, BAFTA-winning writer of Sucker Punch, worked with Theatre Centre to create the modern tale which asks how a new generation of teenagers can learn from the mistakes made by a previous generation. It explores race, family and misguided loyalty. On Friday at 7.30pm, tickets from £3 - £8.

Also at The Hat Factory is Yerma, a Kathak (Indian dance) interpretation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s classic tragedy, on Thursday.

Amina Khayyam Dance Co with zeroculture present the anguishing story of Yerma, who suffers the heart-breaking torment of a childless marriage that forces her to commit a horrific and an irrevocable act. Lorca’s savage yet poetical play set in rural patriarchal and religiously repressive Spain is transposed to an inner city Britain.

Also on Thursday is Mixology: Tabletop Games, a rehearsed and staged reading which depicts a world where ritual takes precedence over belief and human relationships are reduced to a series of power struggles. At Luton Library Theatre at 7.30pm.