Currently, the emphasis in MAFALDA's multifaceted work lies with children's productions, which have enjoyed great international popularity. The productions come along with interactive workshops and parcours of experiences. The multi-layered worlds with which the Zurich based Company MAFALDA, directed by the choreographer Teresa Rotemberg, fascinates its audience are of a very particular character. At times narrative, at times abstract, the company combines sophisticated, often highly virtuous...
Concrete Youth is an award-winning, Hull-based theatre company dedicated to creating ground-breaking and exciting multi-sensory theatre for audiences living with profound multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). All of our work is performed in an accessible, calm and immersive environment, complemented with live music, signing, Makaton, chill-out rooms, limited audience capacity and much more. Partnered with Artsmark, our education department provides excellent bespoke workshops, weekly after-school clubs, private...
Coppice Theatre was founded in 2016 by a group of Cornwall based artists with the aim of providing professional theatre work for emerging practitioners across the theatre arts. We specialise in creating engaging, entertaining and accessible productions that showcase talent, new writing, design and new digital media. We are a collective of practitioners that work across multiple projects and collaborate with various Cornwall based companies. Our...
The Covert Theatre is NZ's largest improvised comedy theatre company. Home to The Improv Bandits, C-Suite, A Bard's Tale and Instant Broadway, we produce world class live comedy shows.
de Stilte is a professional dance company in the Southern region of the Netherlands, that focuses entirely on developing productions and performing for children. We perform hundreds of shows every year, for both the public and for schools. Education is an integral part of de Stilte's activities. Since our foundation in 1994, we have expanded to become the most attended youth theatre producer in the Netherlands...
The DH Ensemble (previously known as The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble) is a professional Deaf and hearing led theatre company which formed in 2013. The company is led by Jennifer K. Bates, Stephen Collins, Erin Siobhan Hutching and Sophie Stone and regularly works with a large network of Deaf, disabled and non-disabled freelance creatives. We create live performance using a mixture of movement, British Sign Language,...
Disney Theatrical Group is committed to... Supporting schools to engage with live theatre by unlocking its learning potential. Nurturing future audiences and industry professionals. Providing theatre opportunities for under-resourced schools. We achieve this through the education programmes that support our production, specifically adapted productions for schools and a variety of targeted initiatives.
Award-winning family theatre company specialising in puppetry, movement and storytelling, with an aim to educate and inspire.
Drag Queen Story Hour UK will engage your child's creativity and love for reading stories by giving them a brand-new, positive experience, one page at a time...all the while, learning and communicating! LET'S GET FABULOUS!
DragonBird Theatre is an early years theatre production company based in Bristol, UK. Explore tropical islands and undiscovered planets with your little ones. DragonBird brings affordable, gentle early years theatre and play to venues in the South West and now to your home at the touch of a button.
Dread Falls Theatre are proud makers of devised theatre; inspired by folk tales and fairy stories we combine puppetry, physical storytelling and unusual spaces to create magical and imaginative worlds. We are theatre of the senses; expect colourful and creative sets, tactile puppets, lavish costumes, smell and scents that hang in the air, and stories told through space.
Embracing Arts is a theatre company that is dedicated to creating work for children with special educational needs and/or life limiting conditions. We believe that every child should be able to enjoy the magic of theatre and have created a range of theatrical experiences that can be brought to them, wherever they are. Our interactive, multi-sensory shows, parties and workshops are tailored to the unique needs...
ECTC's mission is to enrich and entertain the Emerald Coast community through professional and educational theatre; it operates year-round with a two-fold mission to provide both educational and professional offerings to the Northwest Florida community.
Fidget Theatre love to take the familiar and make it fantastical. We specialise in playful and imaginative work for young children and family audiences. Our shows merge the recognisable with the magical and the adventurous. We love participation and welcome audiences who enjoy a good fidget!
Making exciting & challenging work for young audiences.
Flossy and Boo create imaginative and interactive work that looks at the world from an unconventional point of view. These women are smart, with enough observational wit and charm to cater for the whole family.
Fly High Stories was founded by old friends, director Jemma Gross and writer Rachel Barnett-Jones, to create work for family audiences with an emphasis on growth mindset and confidence building. Both mothers, they were inspired by a desire to create accessible stories on stage, screen and radio which their children would be captivated by. They are committed to making work which can be enjoyed and understood...
Folksy Theatre is a not-for-profit company founded in 2009, who tour rural areas throughout the UK. Folksy's productions include: Open-air Shakespeare, Open-air family shows, Book adaptations, Theatre-In-Education, Old-time Music Hall shows, Christmas productions.
Founded by Jennifer Sutherland, Freckle Productions is an independent production company producing theatre for children and families.
With our audience at the heart of our work we carefully craft, programme and develop theatre and performance projects for, by and with children and young people. We exist to enrich young creative minds, delight young audiences, and nurture a lifelong connection with the arts. Full House is committed to listening and responding to the needs of our audience, reaching out to all corners of the...
Fully Booked Theatre are a dance theatre company specialising in performances for young audiences. The company was formed in 2017 by Canadian dance choreographer Jennifer Essex and poet Harry Man. Mixing fast-paced physical comedy with surreal and wonder-filled stories, the company has gained a cult following among both indoor and outdoor theatre audiences. As of 2020, the company also provide socially-distanced and COVID-safe performances and activities...
At Ga Ga Theatre we believe that theatre can be a regular part of all children's lives. We produce shows, festivals and learning experiences designed to include all children, no matter what their situation. We bring popular children's stories to life in a unique way by combining modern technology with traditional theatre.
Garlic Theatre is an award winning, international visual theatre company that has toured to 21 countries outside the UK. Penny Francis OBE described Garlic Theatre as one of the main puppetry companies in the UK producing wholly original work. Garlic Theatre tours successfully to theatres, festivals, art centres, village halls and schools to average audience figures of 20,000 per year. Founded in 1997, Garlic Theatre has...
Gav Cross does: Many varied things, no two weeks are the same! Being diverse brings many chances to make links across the two worlds of creativity and the development of services for children with Special Educational Needs and their families. Both the priorities that get us out of bed!
Gigglemug Comedy was established in 2018 (over a pint) by a plucky bunch of Warwick Uni students. As a company, our aim is to create entertainment which will leave audiences grinning for the rest of the day. We're big believers that comedy should be about escapism, so we want to give people a chance to enjoy something fresh, zany and completely bonkers. Here at Team Gigglemug...
Goblin is a children's theatre company interested in telling stories with positive, contemporary themes that children of all backgrounds can relate to. We believe it's important for children to see themselves and their experiences reflected in the stories they are told. Goblin's shows are characterised by innovative use of original music, puppetry, movement and comedy. We aim to create shows that will make young people want...
We create and produce vibrant, original musicals to entertain and educate children, young people and families.
Gomito is a collaboration of artists making new visual theatre. The company is an ever-changing family of performers, designers, directors, musicians and writers who want to share stories in a certain way; with creativity, entertainment, humour, emotion, liveness and homespun roughness; with theatricality at its simplest.
We are an established female led company run by Co-Artistic Directors Hannah Stone and Ria Ashcroft who are both theatre making mammas. We create contemporary, playful, high quality theatre which puts women centre stage. We make theatre that is relevant and responsive but has hope and change at its heart. We tell stories that are rooted in the community, inspired by women's voices and that reach...
Naiads Foundry is a company of makers, creators and doers (Olivier, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations among them) harking from across the creative and theatre sectors who want to demonstrate that family theatre can still be crafted safely and beautifully in unconventional and thrilling ways. Their goal? To create a performance to help families dwell in play and imagination even when the world outside feels scary.
Groove Baby create exciting, inspiring and engaging concerts for people young and older. Come and experience a new kind of family concert which include storytelling, interaction and action songs for the little ones and great music for everyone!
Handprint Theatre make theatre for and with young people using storytelling, physical theatre, British Sign Language and a combination of anything they can get their hands on, the company strive to empower young audiences. Handprint create theatre and education projects which are accessible to both Deaf and Hearing audiences not segregating but allowing all to share stories which communicate across language, disability or culture. Deaf and...
The Hanuman Tales follow the Monkey King on his adventures. Using puppetry, dance and music, these highly interactive stories will get the whole family engaged. Become enchanted by this playful character as he flies from traditional stories into our hearts.
Head2Head Sensory Theatre is a registered charity dedicated to the Special Needs Community. We are passionate about making theatre accessible to all and understand that families who have a child with a disability face many barriers. We raise awareness, share knowledge and develop new ways to make this happen. We include opportunities for self-development and learning by offering work experience to students transitioning from education.
The Herd bring children, young people and families together in playful spaces to watch and share stories. Our work explores what it's like to be young, the good bits and the hard bits. We believe that children and young people deserve art that respects their rich, complex lives, and that by reflecting how children and young people see the world, we allow adults to view their...
Hikapee Circus Theatre Company. Taking stories into the air, into theatres and into the outdoors. Founded by Bryony Livesey and Edd Casey in 2014, Hikapee create narrative driven work that tell stories of the world we live in for the small and tall. Previous work has toured to theatre spaces, outdoor festivals, village halls & schools.
