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Get Lost

Get Lost is an exciting dance adventure to be enjoyed by all, full of magical contact work, silly slapstick tricks and captivating chaos.

Help two happy hikers on their way and dive into a wholesome, high-energy dance adventure, where tents can dance and massive maps swamp the land. Get Lost is about encouraging curiosities, igniting adventures and pushing past stereotypes.

As the story unfolds (literally, the dance floor is a huge unfolding map!) the relationship between the two relatable characters is ambiguous. The two dancers are empathetic, hyper, soft and tactile as they support, celebrate and solve their way through this wholesome yet high energy performance.

Get Lost advocates for more platonic touch between men and masc presenting people and showcases positive ways they can use touch to encourage healthier interactions.

Vermin

Besotted couple Billy and Rachel have a rat problem. But lurking below the floorboards of their first home together is a much darker, deep-rooted horror the couple must confront – no matter how damaging or deadly. VERMIN is an unsettling, unrelenting and heartbreaking dark comedy that peels back the layers of unchecked grief.

Following a runaway Edinburgh Fringe success, VERMIN is presented by The REcreate Agency in collaboration with multiple award-nominated and critically acclaimed theatre company Triptych Theatre.

“It taps into a deeply rooted fear, not only of that which creeps, crawls and scuttles beneath the floor and within the walls, but of that which festers and broods in those closest to us” – British Theatre Guide.

★★★★★ “Truly a brilliant one of a kind.” – British Theatre Guide

★★★★★ “An exceptional piece of theatre” – Broadway Baby

★★★★★ “At once hilarious, repulsive and heartbreaking. What a ride.” – FringeBiscuit

★★★★ “Tautly staged, queasily funny and, at times, spectacularly nasty” – The Stage

★★★★ “Hair-raising and heartbreaking” – Theatre Weekly

★★★★ “Inspired, rich and sensational” – The Theatre Reviewer

Accelerator

Accelerating artists’ and producers’ ideas through tailored support, mentorship and paid incubation time. A new artist development project supporting four artists and four producers

– a system that can tell you everything that you’ve ever inherited but will they overcome their generational cycles in time to save their relationship?

Blueprints

BLUEPRINTS, a new show about beginnings, knowledge, and ancestral inheritance follows Adam & Faith, a black Caribbean couple who undergo a blueprints experiment to learn what behaviour/trauma/mindsets they’ve inherited from their ancestors. With this new info, we watch the couple decide if it’s morally right to have a child or if there’s a way to break free from cyclical fates, this afrofuturistic play asks if we’re physically able to choose our own destinies or if we can stop generational cycles that no longer serve us.

Are you destined to repeat ancestral patterns forever?

If you could know the entire history of your bloodline, and everything you’re passing on to your children, would you want to know? Welcome to the Blueprints programme, where we can protect you from the past because, after all, knowledge is power. Right?

Zigazigah

ZIGAHZIGAH is a show about communal joy, friendship, and Spice Girls. Inspired by interviews with hardcore Spice Girls fans, and a life of being one myself, the show will follow a group of friends who reunite to see their favourite band, and it will ask the age-old questions ‘What actually is Girl Power? And why do we still love Spice Girls so much?’

In 2019 I saw Spice Girls with my best-friend-from-primary-school. It was the most theatrical experience I’ve ever attended. A mass of mostly women took over Manchester. You could hear the bellows of Girl Power across the city. I scribbled loads of drunken phone notes about female power, rage, and dancing and vowed to make a play about it.

The story follows 5 friends as they get ready to reunite for their third trip to see their favourite band. Will their wounds be healed by full-velocity commercial pop power? They’ll try, but things aren’t as simple as their primary school days.

There will be dancing, singing, laughing, crying and probably quite a lot of those light up sparkly stick things that you wave in the air. Oh, and Girl Power. Loads of that.

5 Children & It

Based on the novel by E.Nesbit, Anthea and her brothers and sister live in a sleepy small northern town. She’s longing for a bit of adventure, but there’s nothing to do! Until one day, they make a strange discovery on Scarborough beach…

Join Anthea, as she tells her magical story through music, story-telling and puppetry. Sometimes the best adventure’s can happen on your own doorstep.

Developed with support from Arts Council England, York Theatre Royal, & in association with Explore, 5 Children & It is ready to tour to venues & theatres now, with their first performances being at Sheffield Theatres as part of their Together Season earlier this year.

Summer Camp for Broken People

Summer Camp For Broken People is a dark comedy about rape, losing your mind and finding yourself.

After a violent sexual assault, a 40-something single mum thinks she’s ‘fine’ until an unexpected email sends her spiralling into a serious mental health crisis. This semi-autobiographical one-woman show is based on diary entries, letters and essays written during time in a psychiatric hospital.

Summer Camp For Broken People, a new show by Emily Beecher, shines a light into the darkest of places. It’s a bold, brave show about how mental illness infects our lives, our capacity for pain and, ultimately, what it takes to put a shattered spirit back together.

Press and reviews for previous work:

‘An expertly crafted show’ West End Wilma

★★★★ ‘Heartwarming, funny & deeply honest…a frank and relatable story’ Independent

‘Emily Beecher’s lyrics were deft, sharp and filled with rapid-fire wit. As was Emily Beecher in person.’ Number 9

★★★★ ‘A laugh out loud and heart clenching musical. A true rollercoaster of emotions.’ Small House Big Trips

Pandora

So I took Pandora and the story of the box, and I made her a real life woman living in todays “Broken Britain”.

Pandora wanted the fairytale.

She wanted the prince and the castle and her “Happy ever after” because that’s what the books said that she’d get…her very own shiny piece of the pie.

She very nearly had it to be fair…

And it was just how they said it would be.

She had the prince and the castle and that happy ever after of hers was closing in so fast she could almost taste it…

Almost.

But not quite…

Because you see there are no fairy-tales.

There never were.

They’re just myths, fabrications, figments of someone’s imagination…

A lie…if you will.

And so as everything unravels and begins to fall apart, she takes us down the rabbit hole, where fairy tales end and horror stories begin, as  piece by piece her life is dismantled, and she finds herself  thrown under the bus by the only two people she thought that she could trust.

A mix of autobiography and real life stories woven into fiction create this dark, “Un- fairy-tale”, as “Pandora” sets out to shine a spotlight on topics such as homelessness, poor mental health and emotional vulnerability leading to exploitation and sexual assault and explores the lengths that people go to in order to escape.

No Sweat

As the homelessness crisis continues to soar, a brand-new work uncovers the forgotten LGBTQ+ displaced youth finding solace in gay saunas.

Working together with a mix of young LGBTQ+ homeless and ex-homeless people in London, Vicky Moran has created a play that shines a light on a staggering 24% of the UK’s homeless youth population.

Combining lived experiences from some of the production’s cast and creatives, verbatim interview clips and an original score, No Sweat le voice to those underrepresented in theatre, and reveals the real stories of a portion of society at risk, finding temporary shelter despite a dearth of safe spaces.

Transforming the space into a steamy sauna, this in-your-face experience will immerse the audience in a carefully constructed set complete with locker rooms, toilets, towels and benches where they meet Tristan; made to feel like a monster whose toothbrush had to be kept a safe distance from his family’s, Charlie; a Pakistani Asylum seeker, fighting to prove his sexuality to gain citizenship, and Alf; whose Mummy loves him but God doesn’t, so he was left with only one option…to run.

In a world where stability is a second from slipping through your fingers, austerity combined with prejudice sees young people putting themselves at risk all too often. But they are just one pocket of the invisible homeless. How long can they battle against the system? No Sweat is an examination of friendship, family and the fight for recognition.

‘It’s unseen. No one’s telling the stories. You don’t see us on the streets because saunas and Grindr mean that gay men don’t have to be homeless in the traditional sense. It’s all hidden.’

‘This is a play of social justice, and deserves to take its place amongst the innovative creations on the stage of modern activism’

Voice Mag

Minta

It’s 1973 and the Supreme Court has just decided Roe v Wade, legalising abortion in the America, but it’s too late for Minta, who finds herself in a home for unwed mothers in rural Tennessee. Minta’s roommate Jackie is like no one she’s ever known before. Through a series of time bending memories, Minta discovers who Jackie really is and what that ultimately  means for her.

Minta is Julie Stirman’s first full length play with a folk Americana music score by Robert James Aitken.

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