Lort Burn Specials present
Lort Burn Specials with Gareth Dennis
Friday 4th July 2025
Doors: 6.30pm
Performance: 7pm
Running Time: 120 mins (including interval)
Tickets: General (£10)
Concessions (£5)
Suitable for Over 65, Student, Artist, Unemployment, Disability Benefit. Please note proof of concession eligibility may be asked for upon arrival at the box office. Complimentary tickets are available for PAs supporting those with access requirements.
No Questions (£3)
If you can't afford any of the other tickets categories but still want to see the show then please purchase this one – no questions will be asked. (7 available, online and in advance only)
Age Rec: 14+
Lort Burn Specials is a new series of occasional talks and cultural nights at the Alphabetti Theatre.
featuring Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Lyndsey Ayre and Jake Trelease, with music from Lucy Valentine.
Gareth Dennis is Britain’s foremost commentator on railways. His book How Railways will Fix the Future: the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road (Repeater, 2024) shows how railways are key to the fight for equality and a just transition. In this edition of Lort Burn Specials he will be talking to us about trains, politics, and how to build a better future by riding the rails.
With readings from locally-based novelists Yara Rodrigues Fowler (one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists), Chaplin Award winner Lyndsey Ayre and Jake Trelease, plus music from guitarist Lucy Valentine, the second Lort Burn Specials continues our mission to Make Newcastle Counterculture Again.
What people are saying about Lort Burn Specials:
“OK I’ll admit it, even though it contained poetry this was great fun”
Audience Member at Lort Burn Specials 1