
The play "Side by Side" has now been entered into the Saltburn Drama Festival in March 2025, to be performed by Three Course Theatre.
Further information of the performance night and ticket availability will be givn in due course.
About the play
Side by Side
by Alistair Briche
Set on two narrow boats on the Leeds-Liverpool canal: The two 'single-hander' helms of the boats, one male, the other female, meet as they prepare to go up through the Bingley Three Rise locks (the junior siblings of the more famous Bingley Five Rise locks). The conversation as they make their way up, their boats side by side in the lock chambers, drifts from astrophysics to the art of play writing, to the uncertainties of cruising and the potential hazard of entering dark, enclosed spaces with a complete stranger. As they emerge from the third lock, they find a very different relationship existing between them.
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As this will be a drama festival entry Three Course Theatre are negotiating with the organisers to find a way to raise money from the performance for Three Course Theatre's chosen charity, the Friends of Murambinda Hospital. Whatever transpires, you are invited none-the-less, to make a donation via the FMH website Giving page.
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As a new script, not previously performed, the play will also be entered in to the
The Geoffrey Whitworth Playwriting Competition.
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As always, we are grateful to Alistair Briche for permission to use his plays royalty free.