Term time is over.... for M and B it finished a week ago, but in St Helens it dragged on until the 25th July. To celebrate the forst real day of the summer we went to York to see the Theatre Royal's production on The Railway Children. Absolutely fantastic, it was staged in a temporary space at the Railway Musem. The audience sat on the two platforms, while much of the action took place on rolling structures pushed along the track. The highlight was the appearance of a real stram loco and carriage, stopping feet from the actress playing Roberta (we later found out that it is shunted in by a diesel...)
Before the play M and B found the Old Gentleman's carriage from the original Railway Children film.
We've never found the NRM's playground before....
...it's rather fab!
It was rather hot in the tented performance space - we got through 5 bottles of water/juice during the play - but fortunatly the little red flags provided a bit of a draft.
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