NEWTON-le-Willows actor Katherine Pearce will star in Roundabout pop up theatre when it comes to Salford's Ordsall Park next month where she will play eight characters in three new plays.

Katherine, whose acting credits include My Cousin Rachel alongside Rachel Weisz, England is Mine, Girlfiends, and Our Girl, will be starring in the plays Island Town, Sticks and Stones and How to Spot an Alien from Thursday, September 6 to Sunday, September 9.

The award-winning portable theatre Roundabout, which last year popped up at Little Hulton Goes Large festival, is presented by Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd in association with The Lowry.

Katherine will be accompanied on the Roundabout stage by the superb and shape shifting actors Charlotte O’Leary and Jack Wilkinson.

For more information go to thelowry.com/festivals-and-projects/roundabout.