Kneehigh Theatre Company, West Yorkshire Playhouse

Two Men. Two World Wars. Two lives knitted together as tight as a thrice darned sock.

Bound together by birth, business and bloody bad luck, Albert and Harold Steptoe wake up every morning to the same old, same old, sickening sight of each other. Joined at the hip and heart, they bother, bicker and banter their way through life – toying with each others frailties like mean kittens. Do they even notice the world turning as they cling on? There are ladies if they would only look around them, and space travel… and Cliff Richard!

The show is adapted and directed by Emma Rice, from the legendary scripts of Galton and Simpson. Charting the tender, cruel and surprising dance between father and son, this is a darkly comic and deeply moving re-imagining of a twentieth century icon.

A show for anyone who has had a parent, anyone who has had a child, anyone who has wanted to tear the walls down and run across the fields
naked.

Taking on the roles of one of television's most famous pairings is Kneehigh's Mike Shepherd playing Albert and Dean Nolan making his Kneehigh debut as dreamer Harold.