The Tideline Runners

The back-to-front love story of Amy and Charlie Donnelly. A touching comedy-drama about Charlie overcoming grief through reliving his most precious memories, from tragedy to elegy, when Amy is diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

Charlie and Amy were married for twenty-three years and darlings of the children’s literature circle. But when Amy developed early-onset dementia, their former lives existed only in the story Charlie told her every day, in a song sung by their remarkable son, and in the laughter their friends would bring with them.

Starting from the present day and unravelling back to when they first met, this new play highlights the importance of precious memories shared with the ones we love, and how devotion and heroism can often be the same thing.

Follow Charlie as he revisits the touchstone moments of the life he spent with Amy, through the unique and unrepeatable instances that defined them.

By turns comedic, tragic and startlingly poignant; this whip-smart comedy-drama will have you gripped – to the very start.

Brought to life with sharp authenticity drawn from the personal experiences of playwright RJ Wilkinson, and with direction from David Macintosh Loumgair, this new play produced in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society UK a crucial wake-up call.