A play charting a century in the life of a North-East family opens next week.
Family Ties chronicles 100 years of descendants in Jarrow, starting with the arrival of an Irish immigrant to work in Palmer's shipyard at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Playwright Tom Kelly said: "The play centres on a family trying to cope with a family mystery. While poverty and lack of work drove the great grandfather to make the initial move from Ireland, this is his family 100 years later, facing their own challenges in terms of identity, love and expressing that love."
Family Ties runs at the Customs House, South Shields, from Tuesday, September 9, to Saturday, September 13.
Tickets are available from the box office on 0191-454 1234.
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