Past Shows - Red Ladder Theatre Company

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Kailey

17 September 2025 - 20 September 2025

Who cares for you when your parent is in prison? Kailey’s mum’s been sent to prison, and she needs to grow up – fast. She’s just turned eighteen; first job, her own place, big nights out. This might just be freedom after all.  But when you’re young and your parent is taken away, who do […]

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Troubled

22 May 2025 - 19 June 2025

Troubled is a 60-minute one woman show about love, death and division told with tea and biscuits. Memories of violence clash against a huge-hearted Northern Irish story, revealing the impact of a childhood shaped by conflict. A lone woman stands under the moonlight, far away from home. Big Red and Little Red, the voices in […]

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Robyn Hood

22 June 2025 - 24 July 2025

Fidget Theatre presents a playful and musical new show for children and their grown-ups about community, adventure and becoming a hero. Robyn Hood tells the story of Robyn, a little girl who lives in a big city. Robyn likes to play outside and on a small patch of green land she builds a den; a magical […]

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Pipes & Poo – an interactive family game-show adventure

13 July 2025 - 13 July 2025

Have you ever wondered what happens to a poo after you flush it down the loo? We have! Join us for a delightfully disgusting interactive game-show exploring the extraordinary world of water, pipes, and poo. Can you help Bubbles win the golden crown? And what will we discover along the way? A brand new show […]

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Rubbish Romeo and Juliet

21 August 2025 - 21 August 2025

Enemies. Balconies… Sausage Rolls?!?!  Three award-winning fools tackle Shakespeare’s epic love story with nothing but a box of bargain bin wigs, a tatty floral dress, and a burst air mattress they found by the bins… Described as ‘like Horrible Histories but funnier’ (Primary Times), the ‘delightfully wacky’ Rubbish Shakespeare Company return with an anarchically joyous, […]

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Talking About The Fire

20 May 2025 - 20 May 2025

Nuclear weapons could destroy us all, right now – so why aren’t we talking about them? Sometimes the threat slides into view – Russia invades Ukraine – but that doesn’t make the weapons more dangerous. They’re always dangerous. And one day, deliberately or accidentally, they’ll be used again. From the team that created the award-winning […]

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The Dreamtime Fellrunner

The Dreamtime Fellrunner is for anyone yearning for connection to the great outdoors, seeking to nourish both body and mind. Escape to the Lakeland fells in this fun, poetic and moving exploration of the land around us, and how we inhabit it. From the comfort of your seat, join Julie as she bounds through the […]

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Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown  – A Concert in a Play

3 April 2025 - 3 April 2025

TAYỌ ALUKO & FRIENDS and UTOPIA THEATRE present COLERIDGE-TAYLOR OF FREETOWN A CONCERT IN A PLAY January 1999. George Coleridge-Taylor, retired Sierra Leonean diplomat, finds himself trapped in Fourah Bay College when the civil war that has been ravaging the country reaches Freetown. In hiding, he reflects on his and his country’s stories, wondering if […]

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Pirate Bonnie

5 April 2025 - 7 April 2025

Fidget Theatre presents a welcoming, music-filled new play for 4-8 year-old pirates and their families. PIRATE BONNIE Welcome aboard, join the crew, Let’s set sail for the horizon blue. We’ll hear pirate songs and pirate tales, As the ocean breeze fills our sails! Pirate Bonnie is looking for treasure – but no ordinary treasure, for […]

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Sanctuary

19 September 2024 - 9 November 2024

Red Ladder Theatre Company in collaboration with Theatre Royal Wakefield & supported by CAPA College Traditionally, churches across the world have offered sanctuary to those seeking safety from persecution. But how do we react when that ideal becomes a reality? When Alland, a young Iranian man, begs to be given sanctuary at St Mary’s church […]

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