Middle class Londoner John has come to York to work as Assistant Director on an amateur staging of the Mystery plays and meets the working class George, who is acting in it. What follows is a tender and complex love story between two young men of very different backgrounds. John desperately wants George to return to London with him. In George’s decision, Peter Gill makes us think more deeply about forbidden love, the depth of English class allegiances, the meaning of family and the origin and ownership of art itself

Peter Gill is one of the key figures of British theatre. He has directed many productions at the Royal National Theatre, the RSC, The Almeida and the Royal Court of both classic and new works. His own plays include Kick For Tourch, Mean Tears and Cardiff East.

The York Realist receives its world premiere at The Lowry, Salford Quays prior to a week at Bristol Old Vic and a run at the Royal Court, London.

The homeless tramp Davies is given a place in a boarding house by Mick and his brother Aston. What follows is a baffling, comical, desperate struggle for territory.

Gari Jones directs The Caretaker, fresh from directing Harold Pinter’s Monolouge for the Almeida Theatre at the Lincoln Center in New York. Gari Jones is Pinter’s Associate Director and worked on the recent production of The Caretaker in the West End.

Madame Ravensky and her daughter, Anya, return home from Paris to find that their family estate is about to be sold at auction for debt. To all the family it is quite unthinkable that they should lose the wonderful cherry orchard whose white blooms are part of their childhood memories. Madame Ranevsky is an irresponsible soul who cannot be made to realize the value of money. Her brother, Gaev, is quite as hopeless where money is concerned. Varya, the step-daughter, is the only practical one, but how can a woman raise money?

Master Builder Solness is locked in a loveless marriage and is terrified that the young rising generation will come knocking at the door.  When the beautiful and mysterious Hilde Wangel comes to claim her kingdom, love and catastrophe loom.