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Dateline: 9th January, 2008
The Railway Children on the Railway York Theatre Royal and the National Railway Museum are to cooperate on a new production of E. Nesbit’s chidlren's story The Railway Children. Adapted by Mike Kenny and directed by the theatre's artistic director Damien Cruden, the production will take place in the National Railway Museum from 18th July to 23rd August and will star Stirling Single, a 39 tonne steam locomotive built in 1878. Dan Bates, Chief Executive at York Theatre Royal, said, “We are delighted that we are joining forces with The NRM to stage The Railway Children. We have wanted to stage The Railway Children for many years and this is a fantastic opportunity to produce what is guaranteed to be one of the theatrical treats of the year in the region.”
Rose Lindsay Smith, festivals and events officer at the NRM, added, “The Railway Children is a fantastic story and deserves to be performed on a real rail-track. Where better to stage a play about life by a railway than the home of the railway, the National Railway Museum? We hope The Railway Children will be a huge success and set the stage for many future theatrical ventures.” The Railway Children tells the story of three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, who live a wonderful life in London, but suddenly everything changes when two strange men appear and their father is mysteriously called away.
Life in the Yorkshire countryside, by the railway, is a whole new world for the youngsters and their mother. New friendships, adventures and terrifying dangers await. But the mystery remains – where is father, and is he ever coming back?
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