Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets
Fri 07 May
|The Ballroom (Chandelier Suite), Assembly Rooms
Tyneside, 1910. A docker and a schoolteacher, a love nobody thinks can last, and a scandal that could tear the community apart. Catherine Cookson's treasured novel comes to the Ballroom with a large cast in Rob Bettinson's much-loved stage adaptation, directed by the highly acclaimed Jake Murray (Elysium Theatre Company, Royal Exchange Theatre).
Time & Location
07 May 2027, 19:30 – 22:05
The Ballroom (Chandelier Suite), Assembly Rooms, Fenkle St, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
About the event
THE FIFTEEN STREETS
By Dame Catherine Cookson. Adapted for the stage by Rob Bettinson. Directed by the highly acclaimed Jake Murray.
Tyneside, 1910. In the grime of the downtrodden dockland streets, the O'Brien family fight every day to keep their bodies fed and their souls their own.
John O'Brien is a docker: proud, strong, and carrying his whole family on his shoulders. Mary Llewellyn is a schoolteacher from a different world. Their love should be impossible. As poverty, scandal, violence and family loyalty pull at them from every side, John must decide what he is willing to risk for a life beyond the Fifteen Streets.
Full of humour, heartbreak and grit, The Fifteen Streets is one of Catherine Cookson's most treasured stories. Rob Bettinson's stage adaptation is brought to life here by a large company of performers, under the direction of the highly acclaimed Jake Murray, artistic director of Elysium…
Tickets
From £37.50 to £42.50