The Bounds

A Live Theatre and Royal Court Co-production

World Premiere

The Bounds

Written by Stewart Pringle Directed by Jack McNamara

The year is 1554, the true Golden Age of English football. It’s the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today.

Live Theatre’s new season kicks off with a belter of ancient proportions!

This is is the big one, and it’s been raging for hours.

Percy and Ro are stuck on the boundaries, again, on a pitch that stretches as far as the eye can see. Something’s different this year, something’s on the change. The ground is frozen hard as Weardale granite, men in black cloaks beat the bounds with willow branches, and a strange light is burning in the sky.

Northumberland writer Stewart Pringle makes his Live Theatre debut with this astonishing new peat black comedy of rural divides, extreme village sport and the boundaries that mark out our lives.