CUMBRIA will be included on the debut tour for acclaimed playwright Arinzé Kene’s new production, inspired by the London riots of 2011.

Good Dog stars Anton Cross, who had been appearing in the Storyhouse Summer Season in Chester last year, which has just begun touring having premiered at Watford Palace Theatre this February.

The show comes to Ulverston's Coronation Hall on Friday March 3.

Delicately observed and fearlessly told, Good Dog chronicles Britain’s multicultural communities and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.

Kene’s initial inspiration for the play stemmed from a desire to imagine what drove his friends and community to riot in the summer of 2011 – in London and beyond – but it has become a chronicle of a community struggling to survive and fighting back.

The star of critically-acclaimed sold out One Night in Miami at the Donmar Warehouse and BIFA nominee for Best Supporting Actor in The Pass, Kene returns to writing for theatre for the first time since 2013.

In this vivid, high-energy monologue, he tells of community, growing up in a diverse area unified by class and survival, and what happens when you lose faith in being good.

When prejudiced voices are amplified, the arts must remind us of the humans obscured within the propaganda storm. Good Dog is a clear human voice which tells those important intimate stories in a troubled landscape.

This richly-imagined, political and personal piece of theatre introduces an overlapping network of characters and stories that explore significant issues for today such as social decay, institutional racism, drug abuse and bullying.

Natalie Ibu, director of Good Dog, comments: "Anton is a gifted graduate actor. He’s thoughtful yet playful and this matched with the exhilarating craft of Arinze’s writing will make for an entertaining night full of courage, vulnerability, and humanity as Anton takes us back through the noughties as a boy."

The police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham in August 2011 triggered the country’s worst riots in living memory, the impact of which extended far beyond the Duggan family and the community of Tottenham.

Good Dog comes to the Coronation Hall on Friday March 3, and tickets are available from the venue's box office.