Written by Jerome K. Jerome
Directed by Paul Burbridge
Designed by Sean Cavanagh
Lighting design by Richard G. Jones
Adapted for the stage by Paul Burbridge

York Theatre Royal and Riding Lights Theatre Company present Jerome k. Jerome's

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Ever been on a disastrous summer holiday? Three Men in a Boat will make yours seem like a honeymoon picnic. Jerome’s classic comedy comes roaring to life in a delightfully accident-packed evening as three men take a boat trip up the Thames in 1889. Through a series of hilarious mishaps and ineptitudes, a healthy rest-cure on the river goes badly adrift.

Splendidly adapted from what is arguably the funniest book in English literature, the renowned trio of ‘young fogies’, Jerome, Harris and George, give you a comic cavalcade of escapist diversions – everything from the affair of the strong cheese on a crowded train to Harris’s farcical attempts to sing a comic song at a polite dinner party. An ingenious production, with a masterpiece of a boat.

A brilliant evening for everyone in the holiday mood – shot though with classic music hall songs from the Victorian period.

‘A riverful of good jokes – tickled out like fat trout with stealth and skill’.
The Guardian

‘A jolly romp… the audience floats along in a haze of contentment.’
The Stage

‘A triumph’
The Jerome K Jerome Society

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