Dogs On The Metro

Written by Emilie Robson

Winner of the North East Playwriting Award

we used to get the metty together there and back. We’d ga to the airport. Looking at everyone gan on holiday. Make up stories for who they were and that. Wasn’t a date or owt like that. That’s just what we did …’

A love letter to friendship, lost youth, naivety and our beloved (but sometimes flawed) local transport system, Dogs on the Metro follows Jen and Dean over a series of days, months and years as they travel back and forth on the network, reflecting on their competing and conflicting versions of the same, pivotal event that changed their lives forever. 

Emilie Robson’s electrifying new play won the inaugural North East Playwrighting Award where it blew the judges away with its razor sharp writing and gripping portrait of young lives.

Content note: Includes discussions about consent and sexual violence