About Sunny Side

Yorkshire-based Northern Rascals deal in slices of reality and everyday truths.
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Clever, vibrant and challenging.
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Imaginatively impressionistic.
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Timely...places young people front and centre.
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Join Northern Rascals for a socially urgent work that follows the pain and loneliness on the path from adolescence to adulthood.

K is struggling.

At 18, he’s living in a world where everyone is rushing full steam ahead but himself. He’s trapped in a small English Everytown; a self-proclaimed ‘rain-soaked paradise’ in the bottom of a Yorkshire valley. A town of two sides: old versus new, indigenous versus gentrified. And yet there's still nowhere that seems to fit K.

In a last attempt to understand and reconnect, he revisits the pivotal moments of his life but is left paralysed at the prospect of a future where his voice can’t be heard.

Where do young men stand in a world that seems to have no place for them?

Combining contemporary dance, theatre and spoken word, SUNNY SIDE is a raw portrayal of modern masculinity, informed by the voices of over 750 young people across the UK.

About Northern Rascals

Northern Rascals are a multi-disciplinary performance company based in Yorkshire.

Driven by social conscience, they use theatre and contemporary dance to lead audiences to original narratives rooted in the current socio-political climate.

Nationally recognised, the company is renowned for their raw yet poetic interpretation of today’s world and the people that inhabit it, and celebrated for their dedication to using Northern voices to spearhead that poeticism.

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