Productions
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The Boy Who read aloud to the sea
This award winning family show follows Seb on a strange adventure to befriend the Sea itself. Blending humour, shadow theatre, and interactive moments, it celebrates the joy of reading aloud — with a companion workshop programme for schools that builds confidence and fun in reading.
Based on the Boy Who Read Aloud by Joan Aiken
On the bare hill
Inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, On The Bare Hill is an enchanting, visually striking tale of a peculiar day in a not-so-normal town (Malvern). Blending poetry, puppetry, and physical theatre, Strange Futures explores local lives touched by climate change with humour and wonder.
The endling
Inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, On The Bare Hill is an enchanting, visually striking tale of a peculiar day in a not-so-normal town (Malvern). Blending poetry, puppetry, and physical theatre, Strange Futures explores local lives touched by climate change with humour and wonder.
The tree rings
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Award-nominated, quirky, and playful—Tree Rings blends physical theatre, shadow, puppetry, live music, and animation to explore one boy’s lifelong relationship with a tree. Filled with myths, magic, humour, and an urgent environmental heartbeat.
slow cooked stories
An intimate, immersive dinner-party performance blending local history, heartfelt storytelling, and live cooking. Celebrating food, memories, and community, Strange Futures share collected tales from local residents around a shared table—bringing people together through stories and tastes from their own lives.
There's somEthing missing
★★★★ The Scotsman
Funny, physical, and deeply human. Two men sit in boxes, talking, singing, dancing—and asking big questions about identity, bees, darkness, and being male today. Autobiography wrapped in generous absurdity.