An All-New Transfer!

Ballad Lines is bringing a mysterious family heirloom, generations of untold stories and a soundtrack packed with folk favourites to The Other Palace, following a smash-hit run at London's Southwark Playhouse Elephant! 

Starring award-winner Carrie Hope Fletcher, Ballad Lines is conceived by composer and writer Finn Anderson (Islander) and director Tania Azevedo (But I'm a Cheerleader). It combines new writing with centuries-old ballads reimagined for today, drawing on Scottish, Irish and Appalachian folk music heritage and performed live by an all-female band. The show continues a development journey that began with its original commission at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Northwestern's American Music Theatre Project.

What's The Story?

Ballad Lines follows Sarah, a queer woman living in present-day New York, who has distanced herself from the folk traditions of her upbringing. But when she encounters those songs once again, she is drawn into the lives of two women from earlier centuries: Cait, the Scottish wife of a minister in the 1600s, and Jean, a teenager in 1700s Ireland, uncovering the threads that link their realities with hers.