On the Shore of the Wide World

Simon Stephens · 2005 CE · Play · English · Contemporary

Three generations of a Stockport family live through nine months in which a death strains every household relationship. A grandfather's quiet decline, a mother's affair and two brothers' separate griefs run in parallel. Premiered at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2005; the title is from Keats.

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