A comedy-drama about George and Robert Stephenson.
Thursday 6 March 7.30pm
at the
Royalty Theatre Sunderland.
Tickets £8.
1825 saw the opening of the Stockton & Darlington railway – the first public line to be entirely operated by steam. The driving purpose of the line was to make economically possible the movement of coal from the inland coalfields around Bishop Auckland to the River Tees and so onwards to London.
This was the real beginning of a transport revolution: the Age of the Train. And the geniuses behind it were father-and-son team George and Robert Stephenson – the Lennon and McCartney of the engineering world. But it was a turbulent partnership. George intended his son to be a more polished version of himself. But Robert, as he grew, strove to be his own man.
Presented by Durham’s City Theatre (otherwise known as the DDS), Steam is an entry in the Durham & Sunderland One Act Play Festival – part of a national competition – hosted this year by the Royalty Theatre, Sunderland.
A few years ago, in the same Festival, David won the Champions Trophy for his play The Red Trail
