Touring the North East in June 2020
‘This house isn’t unfit for habitation. We’re inhabiting it. It’s been habitated for 100 years!’
1951 saw a third of County Durham’s villages classified as ‘D’. They were no longer deemed worthy of investment and were expected to die quietly. But they wouldn’t.
A Way Home is a new play rooted in the stories and memories of the very people who called those D villages home. A County-wide fight lasting over 25 years becomes a 12-month journey at Bet’s kitchen table as she confronts what loss really looks like.
With humour, tenderness and not a small amount of grit, A Way Home speaks of fighting to be heard when no one’s listening, telling a story just as significant today as it was 70 years ago.
| Tue | 2nd June | 7:30pm | Gala Durham |
| Wed | 3rd June | 7:30pm | Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham |
| Thu | 4th June | 7:30pm | Arts Centre Washington |
| Fri | 5th June | 7:30pm | Live Theatre, Newcastle |
| Sat | 6th June | 2:30/7:30pm | Live Theatre, Newcastle |
| Mon | 8th June | 7pm | St Mark’s Church, Eldon (01388 775829 or 07802704981) |
| Tue | 9th June | 2/7:30pm | Alnwick Playhouse |
| Wed | 10th June | 7pm | Trimdon Grange Community Association (01429 881724) |
| Thu | 11th June | 7:30pm | Binchester Community Centre (07745874007) |
| Fri | 12th June | 7pm | Clara Vale Village Hall |
| Sat | 13th June | 3pm | St John’s Hall Meadowfield |
| Mon | 15th June | 7pm | Toft Hill Community Centre |
| Tue | 16th June | 7pm | Hamsterley & Low Westwood Community Hall |
| Wed | 17th June | 7:30pm | The Witham, Barnard Castle |
| Thu | 18th June | 2/7:30pm | Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens |
| Fri | 19th June | 7pm | Hamsteels Community Centre |
| Sat | 20th June | 7pm | Coundon & Leeholme Community Centre (07901864946) |
| Sun | 21st June | 7pm | Witton Park Village Hall |
We are absolutely thrilled to have secured Arts Council England funding for the North East tour and have a wonderful cast and creative team in place (watch this space for more information).
To see what happened during our Research and Development in January 2019, take a look here.
