Theatre Companies

Page One Theatre are a company of collaborators creating visual theatre for young audiences. We believe that children should be offered inspirational theatrical experiences. We aim to inspire, challenge and feed imaginations. Combining movement and object puppetry we produce original and vibrant new performances for children and their families.

We are a modern non-animal social circus traveling the UK providing hands on family entertainment and circus training workshops.

BIG STORIES FOR SMALL PEOPLE Paper Balloon create exciting, original storytelling theatre for young audiences. We produce exclusively new stories for the stage, whether working with writers or devising. We develop work with our core ensemble of artists, featuring original live music and song through all our productions. We consistently work with young people through development, ensuring they remain central to whatever we create.

We're passionate about panto as a genre that can entertain AND enlighten! We present them throughout the year and in the most surprising places! Come and join the adventure!

Twisted Tales with a heart. Engaging, Challenging and Transforming!

Our vision is to create unforgettable early experiences of contemporary dance-theatre for all children. Peut-Être Theatre is an award-winning children's dance theatre company that creates ambitious, accessible, multi-disciplinary performances. We have a collaborative, play based approach to making shows working with diversely skilled artists and researchers across sectors.

Pied Piper specialises in new writing for young children. We are committed to making our audience's crucial first experience of theatre as creative, original, exciting and high quality as it can be; regardless of how or where they are able to experience it. For this reason we tour into small rural and big inner-city schools, tiny arts venues and large scale theatres bringing the same high...

Pigfoot is a multi award-winning theatre company, dedicated to making collaborative, carbon-neutral theatre. We make work with and for those grappling with the climate & ecological crisis. Our theatre practices what it preaches (The Sunday Times on Pigfoot) & protests from within an industry which, in London alone, has been shown to have a carbon footprint of 50,000 tonnes a year - roughly equivalent to driving...

Pins and Needles Productions is an award-winning, female-led theatre company in Bristol, based on a strong Director/Designer partnership between Emma Earle & Zoe Squire. We create imaginative theatre for all ages and are passionate about finding playful ways to tell stories full of heart, humour and magic.

Pirates of the Carabina are a trailblazing circus company of highly experienced artists, riggers and musicians from across the world who specialise in theatrical, highly technical shows with a very strong live music ethos.

Plé is a trilingual play for kids that inspires curiosity while encouraging inclusivity and connection.

Polyglot Theatre is a globally-renowned company based in Melbourne that creates, produces and tours Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) all over the world. Polyglot's artistic approach of child-centred practice has earned our reputation at home and internationally as a leader in the TYA sector, celebrated for creating distinctive, collaborative works that are playful and conceptually robust. We involve kids from creative development through to immersive performances;...

Punchdrunk Enrichment is a charity that creates transformational theatre for children, adults, and communities across the UK and beyond.

AHA! is a promise to bring to our children the best of theatre, theatre that speaks to their aspirations and concerns, theatre that reflcts the times they live in. Under AHA! we produce plays at regular intervals in Kannada and English that bring the together great stories and an extremely talented team that puts it together. The productions are designed for different age groups allowing us...

Delve into our trunk of tremendous tales and join Really Big Pants Theatre Company on amazing adventures! Presenting theatre with serious messages in a playful way. Our awesome shows use the primary curriculum (and some really big pants) to inspire, educate, and entertain children aged 3-11 in your school, arts centre or community venue.

We make innovative, quality work for everyone under the age of 19: from the tiniest babies to the oldest teenagers, for disabled children and young people, for school groups, for families, for festivals. We tour locally, nationally and internationally taking shows to venues from Belfast to Broadway and lots of places in between.

Based in Wellington, the Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) is a company of dynamic dancers from diverse backgrounds, performing a broad repertoire for audiences at home and abroad, whilst continuing to build a style that is unique to Aotearoa. Since June 2017, the company has been under the artistic direction of Patricia Barker.

Our mission is to make the finest theatre productions of Shakespeare's plays, as well as other plays written when Shakespeare was alive or soon after and plays being written right now.

Second Hand Dance is a UK based dance company. We create intricately layered, highly visual shows for children and adults that tour nationally and internationally.

She Inspires, She Engages, She Empowers. She Productions are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) based in Hull & East Yorkshire who develop and produce vibrant original theatre driven by the female voice, alongside accessible and bespoke outreach programmes serving local communities. Our mission is to educate, to collaborate and make women heard.

Bringing drama to young people in and around Hampshire. At Shoes on Theatre, we encourage confidence to spark in children by leading them into the wonderful world of drama.

We are an international theatre company founded by immigrants whose mission is to create theatrical experiences that challenge boundaries, explore the connections that hold us together and celebrate our common humanity, regardless of where we come from.

Sitara offers dynamic, family theatre, in English and Arabic. Our all woman team presents international quality performances, celebrating Oriental culture.

Skewbald makes vibrant and playful theatre that seeks to inspire, engage and challenge the imaginations of our audience. We rummage around in the enchanting world of fairytales and folktales and devise new ways to bring these compelling and curious stories to life by giving them a quirky Skewbald twist. We blend storytelling, puppetry, atmospheric sound, music and song, physical physical and bold visuals.

Black Female-led Physical Theatre company creating new work for young audiences.

Spellbound Theatre is New York's award-winning theatre for very young children. We bring original theatre, storytelling and puppetry performances and workshops to schools, libraries, and performance venues in New York and across the country.

Spun Glass Theatre are an award-winning production company who create innovative children's theatre including 'Princess Charming' a cabaret for kids exploring gender stereotypes, co-produced by Ovalhouse.

Starcatchers is Scotland's Arts and Early Years organisation. We create performances and creative activities for babies and children aged 0-5 and the adults who care for them.

Stickyback Theatre is a theatre company focusing on exploration, aiming to find original forms within their puppetry-based theatre practice. Stickyback Theatre shows are wholly original, combining new scripts, hand-made puppets (from the carefully constructed to the wilfully thrown together) and a childish sense of wonder and enthusiasm. Our work is often comic and rarely restrained.

We are a theatre company devoted to bringing both classic and original children's stories to the stage in a magical, inventive and exciting way. Our productions are centred around the art of storytelling, creating a journey for our audience that we hope will inspire a love of stories and theatre.

Outta the Books is an innovative multi-platform family entertainment project created by Brian Banks and produced by StorySongs Productions. Developed by Banks' desire to create an ambitious musical re-imagining of our favorite fairy tales, it is an original and enchanting journey into the Land of Once Upon a time.

We bring accessible, world-class performances and creative learning to the doorsteps of people and communities in Newham and East London.

Award winning theatre company run by Sophia Hatfield. We collaborate with artists to create inventive touring theatre for libraries, rural venues, community spaces & theatres. We also run participatory workshops & make multi-skilled work with communities.

Live interactive online theatre for all the family.

Our shows contain fantastic professional performers from the world of pantomime! With colourful costumes, magical sets and quality sound and lighting. You're in for a fantastic time! The heart warming stories are made fantastical by the TaleGate's signature interactive take on stories. Each show includes songs, puppets and magic! What more could you want?

Tall Stories is a registered charity which has become internationally recognised for its exciting blend of storytelling theatre, original music and lots of laughs. The company's unique brand of physical storytelling theatre has toured from Cornwall to Aberdeen and from New York to Sydney.

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