The rescheduled world premiere of Daniel Bye and Boff Whalley’s These Hills Are Ours will open at ARC Stockton from 20-21 January before touring the UK until late June 2021.

Following its performances in Stockton-on-Tees, the production will visit Doncaster, Havant, Burton on Trent, Corby, Eastleigh, Alnwick, Huddersfield, York, Lancaster, Hexham, Washington, Reading, Banbury and Goole.

Directed by Katharine Williams, the show explores the writers’ mutual love of running, celebrates the freedom to roam wild places - and asks what they’re really running from.

For the last three years Bye and Whalley have been running a series of routes, from the centre of the city in which they found themselves, to the top of the peak overlooking that city - culminating in one epic journey for Dan, more than twice as far as he’s ever run before. But what were they running from?

In story and in song, this is the story of what they found out – about the relationship between city and country, between wild and controlled, about land ownership, about why we’re drawn to wild places – and about how far we’re prepared to go for what we believe in. 

Bye said: “Boff and I have worked together on lots of projects, from very small to large enough to warrant an AA road sign. And work conversations always had a habit of drifting into conversation about running. So we thought it was high time to make hay out of that and work together on a show with running as its starting point.”

These Hills Are Ours has been commissioned by Beaford Arts, Eden Project North, Lancaster Arts, Leeds Playhouse and Shoreditch Town Hall.

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