Two lads. Twelve hours. One million pounds.

On the wet West Cumbrian coast, James and Kamran have been mates for more than a decade. At seventeen, the world should be theirs but Workington’s a ghost town – an unemployment blackspot where lasses drink Bacardi by the pint and boys don’t cry.

When James discovers he is heir to a single mile of the British railway system, the lads are forced on a town-wide treasure hunt where annihilated aunties, Snakebite-drenched drag queens and a zombie Princess Diana lay in wait. But who rightfully owns the mile of steel? Why is Kamran in such a strop? And what really happens in the pub down by the docks?

In a town once rich with coal seams and ore, with community and carnivals, with sea air and ale, James and Kamran are fed up with feeling different – tonight they’re painting the town technicolour and asking what it means to be a man in a play about first loves, forging identities and the wild, wild hearts of teenage boys.

Running Times

Steel performance: 7.30pm - 8.45pm

Interval: 8.45pm - 9.00pm

Post show forum: 9.00pm - 9.45pm

Reviews

“Fast-paced, exhausting… surprisingly emotional and very powerful” ★★★★★ What’s Good to Do

"Beautiful and breath-stopping" ★★★★ The Stage

“Raw emotion is exposed with heartache and humour” Mag North

Credits

By Lee Mattinson

Directed by Liz Stevenson

A Theatre by the Lake production