Traverse Theatre
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After Party
After Party gathers an elderly actress and her family for one final party before she undergoes assisted dying, with the occasion opening up years of family trauma and rivalry. The...
Badgers
Badgers is a true-crime-style piece of gig theatre in which the search for a missing young man opens into a strange story of badgerism, magic, loss and the difficulty of...
Bog Witch
Bog Witch is a solo piece about anthropogenic climate change, moving from the city to the countryside in an attempt to fill what the protagonist calls the “hole in her...
For Dolores
For Dolores is a two-hander about two women whose friendship becomes entangled with marriage, betrayal, murder, motherhood and class. One gets engaged and cheats with the other’s brother; the fiancé...
Kathy
Cathy is a show about death and belonging, centred on a newly widowed woman and a family processing the death of their husband, father and grandfather in very different ways....
Supposing:
Supposing: follows a woman who falls down a hole and acquires the ability to see the future, with a Greek chorus delivering predictions around the growth of the far right...
The Singer
The Singer pairs a washed-up street performer with a talented deaf musician, building a friendship around music, equity, acceptance and the expectations of an ableist society. Jamie Rea’s Joe experiences...
Water Colour
Water Colour brings together two lives shaped by pressure: a girl at art school struggling with her mental health and an aspiring chef working in a professional kitchen. Their lives...
