Moby Duck

The Kam Tree

The persimmon which is the fruit of the Kam Tree is the best in the world.  The musical magpie who lives high in it’s branches knows that - everyone does.  But no-one has ever remembered how the beautiful fruit first appeared — until now.

Many years ago, there was no tree here — just a house, a yard and a boy with a very sick mother.  Then came the fiercest tiger in the world — and things began to change …

Moby Duck’s latest Korean collaboration mixes storytelling with physical theatre, live music, puppetry and wild Korean humour in a show that’s as powerful as the tiger, and as eye-catching as the sunset over Mount Seorak,

Sheffield Theatre

‘Handful of Henna’

Saheeda hasn’t seen her homeland since she came to England as a young bride. Now she returns for a holiday with her young daughter Nasreen.  When they arrive in a monsoon, mother and daughter are set for a difficult time.

As the stories of Saheeda’s childhood unravel, mother and daughter are brought together and find that their journey into the past helps them embrace their future.
Rani Moorthy’s moving new play is an enlightening look at lives lived across two cultures.

Nostalgic, extremely moving and also unexpectedly funny, Handful of Henna is one of those rare plays that reaches out beyond the stage.  John Highfield,  Sheffield Star/The Stage

Multi Story Theatre

‘Dragon Fish

What do you dream about? In Dragon-Fish, Multi Story’s latest family play, the brother-who-had-a-sister, dreams of dragon-gold and huge fat trout for supper. But the sister- doesn’t have time to dream. She’s too busy digging the garden, feeding the hens and making plum jam.

The brother-who-had-a sister has an imaginary friend who takes him on underwater adventures. But the sister is too busy for adventures what with the house to clean and supper to make.

Then one day something quite extraordinary happens. A little Dragon Fish appears and their lives are changed forever.

This enchanting re-telling of a traditional tale uses colourful video and an intriguing soundtrack that’s conjured up in front of you. Multi story have an international reputation for creating imaginative productions of the highest quality.

Cartoon de Salvo

Hard Hearted Hannah and other Stories

Hard Hearted Hannah tells a different story every night. Featuring live Jug

Band music (think souped-up washboards, guitars, banjos and cider jugs for

bass!), each new adventure is inspired by songs chosen by the audience from

a ’menu’ before the show. Will it be the Boodle Am Shake or the Lindy Bird

Hop? Will tonight’s tale star Smokey Joe, Scrubber Sam – or Hard Hearted

Hannah, the notorious vamp of Savannah? Only one thing’s for sure – no two

audiences are alike and no two shows will tell the same story...

Ghost River Theatre

‘Mesa’

Paul, 34 and an unemployed writer, is enlisted to drive his wife’s Grandpa ‘Bud’ 93, all the way from Calgary to Arizona.   Their destination: Bud’s retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul dreams of a great adventure in the American desert. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6. They travel for five days, and in spite of their differences, discover a friendship for each other as they head south. This is Bud’s final year in Mesa, and Paul is his driver.

 “The best road trip adventure to hit the Calgary stage…As (Grandpa) Bud, Christopher Hunt's performance is outstanding…embodying his 93 years right down to his rubber shoe covers. The show is complete with incredible road music, performed by the funny and talented Marshall Hopkins.”

 Calgary Herald

Farnham Maltings

‘The Polish Play’

The Polish Play starts in a village hall and ends at a country dance.  It is about a father and daughter who travel to England to begin a new life.  He worries that she will throw family traditions to the wind in her hurry to get to the Topshop sale.  

Join them on their  journey.  Using an accordion, home movies and taking  in Yuri Gagarin, 70’s disco music  and the 1974 world cup finals, the Polish Play is a funny, affectionate and touching tale of what it is to belong.

Plested and Brown

A Minor Spectacular

The forgotten town of Watford-by-sea is holding out for a hero, to wash away its worries and tumble dry its tears.

Then Bosch! Terry arrives fixing washing machines and cleansing customer’s souls. With manual in hand, he rifles through the town’s dirty laundry, exposes mucky habits and cleanses customers souls.  No matter how deep the stains he’s undetergent.   But is he the angel he seems?

Only hapless local journalist Verity Toogood can uncover the truth about Terry and decide whether he is sent from Heaven or Hotpoint

‘Brilliantly  conceived… Impeccable comic timing’. The Scotsman

Fairgame Theatre

‘Keep on Moving’

Taking inspiration from the fairgrounds of bygone times and the lives of those who lived and worked them, Keep on Moving whirls you back to a time of toffee apples and bearded ladies, bare-fisted boxing matches and illusion. Welcome to a world where the colours are heady and strange, the music live and alluring, where your heart beats quicker in anticipation and just about anything can happen…

The story conveys the tensions between the insecurity and prejudice endured by travelling families and the fun and glamour of the show that their lives depend on.  This fast moving play with music is suitable for the whole family.