Victoria Wood's magnificently bad soap opera arrives at The Lowry for Christmas with a cast to be announced. The cast of the axed TV soap, down on their luck and looking for work, have found themselves performing in an experimental opera taking a bleak look at modern Britain. But Mrs Overall won't let the opera drag her down and starts trying to slip a few more tuneful ditties into the proceedings. As events unravel fate gives her the chance to fulfil her dream of taking a musical based on Acorn Antiques to the West End, with lots of lovely singing and dancing, and a very prominent part for her.

The Golden Goose is a comedy that will delight all the family. It tells the story of Dummling and his one true love Dajona, the princess who will not laugh, of her sister Birgit, and her one true love Boris and his mother Christina and her one true love Conrad - the King. Follow the farcical adventures of these two ill-matched families as they struggle with forests, faeries, and unbelievable good fortune in a magical tale about luck, love and a beautiful, mysterious Golden Goose. Charles Way is the author of previous Library Theatre Christmas hits, Beauty and the Beast and Merlin and the Cave of Dreams. No one does Christmas better for adventure and entertainment, and this year will be no exception.