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Top of the Wold

Top of the Wold

Tales from a mobile library

Get ready for a hilarious and heartwarming journey to the Top of the Wold!

Hop aboard the most charmingly quirky mobile library you’ll ever encounter and dive into chapters that teem with the lives of then and now.  This brand-new play, bursting with original songs, invites you to join the East Riding Mobile Library in a celebration of community, culture, caravans, and peas.

Via Bempton, Bridlington, Hornsea and Howden, we explore a region barely noticed by the nation it feeds, eroded by the pounding North Sea, can a mobile library – with its complex web of rural stops (and somewhat erratic engine) – pull together the Riding’s finest yarns?

From the rolling Wolds to the wild North Sea, discover a place where connection to the land is ingrained, culture is as organic as its produce, and the sea reminds us that we stand on the cliff-edge of a much bigger story.

This laugh-out-loud quest through a patchwork of culture and community celebrates the forgotten, the resilient, and the wonderfully eccentric.

If the story of a county is written in a book, the library is the spine that shows you where to look.

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Listen to the audio trailer here

Listen to the pre-show audio description notes here

Every performance has integrated audio description. Touch tours are available at every performance.

In partnership with East Riding Mobile Library Service

Writer and Lyricist

Maeve Larkin

Composer

Robert Cooper

Director

Marianne McNamara

Music Director & Arranger

Sonum Batra

Set & Costume Designer

Celia Perkins

Integrated Audio Description Consultants

Ben Wilson and Esther Irving


Top of the Wold

Watch the trailer

Watch the trailer for Top of the Wold

Sheer Mikron Magic

Yorkshire Times

54th Year Of Excellence

The Reviews Hub

We all left the theatre on Top of the Wold

Pocklington Post

Wonderful, heartwarming show

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