‘A zip is where two sides that look the same are pulled together. They interlock, but they never really meet… Yaknow, I think I want to be a button. A button takes time to undo. Something is pulled through that stays there. It’s prettier, I suppose.’
Dan’s tired of Teignmouth’s sleepiness. Of tripping over his sexuality – living in a small place you know too well can narrow your relationships and broaden your anxieties. ‘Zips’ propels through the ideas and ambitions of a young gay guy that Teignmouth has ran out of opportunities for, his sister Eliza and her unquiet secrets, Dan’s...
After lifelong dedication to the research, analysis of data, multiple dependable sources and reflection of first-hand experience I have come to the conclusion that I have yet to grow up. In fact, I believe it to be a small wonder that I’ve managed to survive for nearly 30 years at all. Everyone else has it sorted. I believe this. This is 100% percent fact, I think. How do they do it? Life: love, work, money, family. It’s what grown-ups do. And now as I approach the big 30. (That’s a big deal isn’t it? There’s like, movies about it, isn’t there?). I can’t help but feel that if I could go...
If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe.
John & Sara have separated. The Universe is expanding. Coincidence? Well. . . . Yes. Feeling lost in this world can be difficult, but John is seeking answers.
With the help of some of the world’s leading astrophysicists, along with some other questionable methods, John must delve deep into the heart of what makes us human and try to understand our place in this universe. All the while he’s trying to solve...
A re-imagining of the traditional tale by Brave Bold Drama, makers of award-winning family theatre.
Living close by a forest, Hansel & Gretel are typical children. Often hungry, always wanting to play, their lives coloured in by their vivid imaginations. The forest is their playground and their friend.
But when they wake up alone in the forest at midnight, things feel very different…
The witch. Of course, the witch. But not all witches seek to harm. Step into a magical white forest and let our story surround you.
On a lake somewhere not far away, a mother duck is sitting on her eggs. But one doesn’t look like the others; it’s a different shape, a brighter colour and is much, much bigger! What will happen when the egg hatches and what stories will hatch with it?
Join Above Bounds Theatre Collective as they explore one of the most loved Hans Christian Anderson stories using songs, shadow puppetry and a little of your input to tell this famous tale. Come along on the journey with our Ugly Duck; there’s sure to be gasps, laughs and a few surprises along the way.
“All those people who died young; you’ve got their life, you’ve got the chances they never had and what are you doing with it?”
Waving Goodbye is an emotionally charged black comedy which asks fundamental questions about existence and our relationships with each other. A play about the horrible choices we have to make every day. Should we take risks or take the road most travelled?
On the sea wall in Nice, Raoul Dufy paints a portrait of his muse Jane. A troupe of singers and instrumentalists celebrate the painter in Waltz, Jazz, Blues and Repartee until the sun goes down and envelopes the generous, sensual world of Monsieur Dufy.
Since winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award in the late ‘70s with their Jazz Cabaret Mama Chicago, composer Mike and vocalist/librettist Kate have generated a succession of Music-Theatre pieces. They have written for the stage, for television and radio, and toured with Theatre, Dance and Opera companies as well as their own...
The watcher on the boundary. The rebel. The fool. The gossip. The crazy old bag sitting next to you on the bus. That which is rejected, broken, manipulated and controlled by our fear of her. She is the dark dream of our broken hearts demanding to be reclaimed. The refugee. The ‘mad’. The lost and the lonely, the wounded souls behind the mask of our ‘all about me’ culture.
Disconnected from our source how do we navigate our way through the chaos surrounding us, how do we reclaim our humanity?
Becky Morely begins her diary on New Years Day 2001, little does she realise just how much that year would change her life.
Based on the novel by award-winning writer Michael Morpurgo, Out of the Ashes is the story of Becky’s experience on her family farm in Devon, during the outbreak of foot and mouth disease across the UK.
Told by two actresses, we experience Becky’s memories of the outbreak as she wrote them in her diary. The story features the birth of her first lamb, Little Josh, her glorious rides with Ruby the horse and the gradual spread of the disease from hundreds...
