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Winner of our People’s Play Award! Sides by Alex Joynes

5th - 10th May 2025

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Start Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: £16.00 Concessions: £13.50


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"Alex Joynes [has] served up a sparkler"! - Cultured. North East

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“Hey, steady on. You've got half the Atlantic on there. I do five prawns tops usually. Six if I’m feeling generous.” 

The People’s Play Award is our biennial playwriting competition to discover and champion new Northern writers.

Many previous winners have gone on to successful writing careers, and this year’s winning play is a funny and heartwarming comedy-drama by Bolton writer Alex Joynes.

In Uncle Del's, a chain sandwich shop on the outskirts of Bolton, changes are afoot. Terry is preparing to leave. Charlie is preparing to take over. And Beth is somewhere in between.

Over the course of their handover, this unlikely trio will learn about love, belonging and the art of making a perfect panini.

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Audience information: the play includes the preparation of food which includes the following allergens: Gluten, Dairy, Crustaceans.  

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Cast

Terry: John MacDonald

Charlie: Rhiannon Wilson

Beth: Hattie Easton

Production Team

Director: Ian Willis

Assistant Director: Kirstie Corfield

Stage Manager: Sasha Quigg

Assistant Stage Manager: Ysobel Lloyd Payne

Lighting Design: Karen Dales

Lighting Crew: Pamela Willis, Robbie Close

Sound Design: Sam Sanford

Set Design: Anneliese Clifton

Props: Rachel Potts, Eileen Davidson

Set Building and Painting: Anneliese Clifton, Steven Appleby, Sasha Quigg, Ysobel Lloyd Payne

Technical Advisor/Support: Tim Swinton

Rehearsal Prompt: Pamela Willis

Wardrobe :Jenny Davison

Publicity Lead: Alison Carr

Rehearsal Photographs: Jess Chapman

Production Photographs: Paul Hood

Productions Committee Liaison: Lauren Allison

Thanks to Mr Ant’s Bar, Hexham, Dene’s Deli, Jesmond and the People’s Theatre Wednesday Coffee Morning Group

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