List of productions on theatre page

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  BLOOD RED LINES

  Blood Red Lines: Verbatim theatre as a form of restorative justice by Maria HASSAN for Shared Future News, 1 March 2019 A Friday night at the Brian ... Read More

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  CITIZENS REHEARSE - The James Connolly Project

  Edinburgh born and bred James Connolly is one of Scotland’s most influential and radical leaders and artists, best known for his role in Ireland’s moment ... Read More

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  Endgame

  "SAMUEL BECKETT wrote Endgame back in the late 1950’s, when nuclear holocaust was the fear that stalked humankind.  Yet somehow, its grimly comic vision of ... Read More

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  The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

  Marat-Sade is a theatrical mediation of history, a comment on the dramatically changing world of the 1960s. Set in post-Revolutionary France the contemporary and the ... Read More

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  Babylon Burning (Another Lovely War)

  The recent war on terror has become a key theme for politically-engaged theatre companies. BABYLON BURNING narrates the origins and consequences of the war in ... Read More

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  One Hour Before Sunrise

  Ghazi Hussein has written a play of extreme brutality and poignancy. It describes the experience of a political prisoner, a poet Moneer in his incarceration. ... Read More

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  Black Sun Over Genoa

   "There was a sense, on the eve of the giant Make Poverty History March and the G8 summit in Gleneagles, that this latest piece by ... Read More

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  The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht

  This play takes John Gay's The Beggar's Opera as its catalyst. It presents the thieves, whores and poverty-stricken people of London. At its centre is ... Read More

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  The Last Little Fish In The Net

    A King and his three daughters live by the sea. The Queen has died and the household is not harmonious with the King showing special ... Read More

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  Consider Rather The River

  This play was performed on the banks of the Water of Leith and combines the realities of life in 2003 and the history of the ... Read More

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  The Jasmine Road

      Written in light of the murder of Rachel Corrie in the West Bank, this play looks at the everyday brutality of twenty-first century Palestine. It ... Read More

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  Gillean Cullaig/Hogmanay Boys

    Christmas production tells of a South Uist girl in the 1940s on a journey of self-discovery that is intertwined with the legend of the merciless ... Read More

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  Oh What A Lovely War!

  JOAN LITTLEWOOD’S Musical Entertainment Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood, Theatre Workshop and Charles Chilton Research by Gerry Raffles after treatments by Ted ... Read More

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  Nothing Ever Burns Down By Itself

  Described as a "work in progress", this play marked the beginnings of Theatre Workshop's concern with death of Carlo Giuliani in Genoa during the protests ... Read More

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  I am the Walrus

  Nabil Shaban's I AM THE WALRUS, as the title would suggest, takes John Lennon and his music as recurring motifs. It looks at the experiences ... Read More

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  Kaguyahime: The Moon Princess

  A collaboration with TAIHEN THEATRE CO, Osaka, Japan. The story of Kaguyahime is a very ancient one from Japan. The central figure of the story ... Read More

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  IF I DIE B4U WAKE

  Another powerful play about British teenage experience. It looks at four different stories that interweave through the narrative. There is Carla's Story, an abstract computer-based ... Read More

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  Jack and the Land of Dreams

  This is a traveller's story based on the mythology associated with this people group. The central character Jack was born with the blessing of a ... Read More

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  Portadown Blues

  This controversial play takes a number of different narratives about Catholic experience in Northern Ireland and unites them to provide a voice for the Catholic ... Read More

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  The Little Lamp

  A play for children at Christmas, this story is based in the Middle East and narrates the story of a princess, Amire, and ... Read More

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  The Scaldie Hoose

  Ezzy is a teenage traveller girl who lives with her travelling family. While living in a 'scaldie hoose', a "country person's hoose" she meets Charlie, ... Read More

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  Il Belissimo Silenzio

  This production is based on a fairy tale from Italy. It uses the origins of our conventional pantomime, basing the story in the traditions of ... Read More

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  Squealin Like A PIg

  "a stunning, sometimes heart-stopping theatrical experience, with something to say to everyone" Joy Hendry, The Scotsman. This play focuses on the experience of young people in ... Read More

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  Jimmy C! - a ballad of James Connolly

  The life and death of the revolutionary figure James Connolly provides the story for this play. Rather than concentrate solely on the macro-politics of the ... Read More

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  Stockaree!

  This community play focuses on the area of Stockbridge, the district of Edinburgh where Theatre Workshop's Hamilton Place theatre is situated. It looks at the ... Read More

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  Badi Kahani

  BADI KAHANI is a play based in India. It narrates the story of the beautiful Kanchi, the energetic Gopi, the faithful Pedthi, the musician Venu ... Read More

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  Diriamba!

  This project was a collaboration between Theatre Workshop and Teatro Nixtayolero. Set in a Nicaraguan village, this play narrates the experience of the inhabitants and ... Read More

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  D.A.R.E.

  D.A.R.E. tells the story of four radicalised disabled men who declare war on a world that has declared its intent to destroy them. Under the ... Read More

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  Of Nettles and Roses

  This play is based on a Yiddish story from Poland, enjoyed first by Jewish children. It tells the tale of Rebecca who lives with her ... Read More

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  The Lost Harp / Y Delyn Goledig

  Written by local playwright Peter Cox, it was set at the start of the nineteenth century , a time of profound change - with deep ... Read More

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  Red Dust Blue Dreams - Public Parts Theatre Co.

  Family man three times over, travellin' hobo, Dunkirk hero, folk legend, social embarrassment - in one moment he was playing to thousands as the voice ... Read More

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  The Bodhran Makers

  "That's where heaven is. Where the sound ends and the silence begins". Anyone whose heard the sound of the Irish Bodhran will know it seems ... Read More

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  Dancer - Pit Prop Theatre Company

  A girl refuse to dance at the Mayor's Festival - he is a corrupt child abuser. Her decision has implications for her family. The community ... Read More

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  The Bannisters of Wem - Public Parts Theatre Company

  "Alert to what is moving and shaking elsewhere in European theatre, often comic, they work physically and with fine musical skills. Visually, it is seductive, ... Read More

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  Go See Fanny Deakin

  "its a powerful tale, powerfully told in this promenade production, directed by Robert Rae. Designer James Helps creates the farm, the terraced homes, the pit ... Read More

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  The Hedgey Road Plays - "Ma Hat Ma Coat And The Ghandi Girls" -Belfast

  The Marillac Theatre Company was created by Fedelma McVeigh to showcase the talented young women of the drama department of St.Lousie's Comprehensive College, Falls Road, ... Read More

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  The Task

  "The French Revolution provides the backdrop for Heiner Muller's passionate indictment of racial and economic imperialism - like all good political theatre one need look ... Read More

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  THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND 7:84 Theatre Company England

  The Garden of England - researched over ten months in the 1984 miner’s strike. "Far from self-indlulgent agitprop, though it comes with the odd rousing song, ... Read More

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  SIX MEN OF DOREST 7:84 Theatre Company England

  "Pam Brighton's production is superb - a brilliantly clear, strong and vital revival. In John McGrath's adaptation it is brought vividly, grippingly to life by ... Read More

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  School For Emigrants - 7:84 Theatre Company England

    Paul Thompson was invited over from Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto to direct. Paul wanted to reach out into post-industrial Britain so I arranged for the ... Read More

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  SPIKE - 7:84 Theatre Company England

  Adapted by Jim Sheridan from the novel "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek "I set it in Ireland because there are parallels with Czechoslovakia in ... Read More