The Red Tree

The Red Tree adapted from the book by Shaun Tan The Red Tree is a play about feelings – feelings that can’t always be simply expressed in words. Shaun Tan’s art conjures up familiar and ye...

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Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou

It’s the third year we’ve worked in partnership with the incredibly talented lecturers, staff and students in the Theatre Design and live Performance team at Nottingham Trent University....

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Pirate and Parrot Online

Pirate and Parrot A Pirate so small and a Parrot so tall, it’s a wonder they ever met.   Performers and comedians, Gareth Berliner and Kiruna Stamell are fed up in isolation, so they take to th...

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Calm and Creative in a time of Crisis

Red Earth Theatre is on Virtual Tour, and your place is our next venue. We’ll be coming to you directly with a live streamed and recorded programme of family-friendly, theatre-based events each week....

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Calm and Creative for D/deaf Families

In this period of stress, you and your family and school need some special YOU time. There’s lots of Mindfulness stuff available online but not accessible for D/deaf families and people. Rebecca-Anne...

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The Curious Case of the Vanishing Toilet Rolls

 Red Earth Theatre Presents The Inspector Flushman Mysteries Series 1: The Curious Case of the Vanishing Toilet Rolls Inspector Stanley Flushman fights crime all over the world. But when a virus pand...

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Soonchild

Red Earth Theatre in association with Arena Theatre Wolverhampton and Derby Theatre present Soonchild – Now Touring! Adapted from the book by Russell Hoban & Illustrated by Alexis Deacon Mid...

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Mirror Mirror

For Children and Families When Snow White is offered a juicy red apple, by a kind old lady, she is sorely tempted. On the other hand, how can she be sure it’s not poisoned? She’s been nearly poisoned ...

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Hand on Heart

Hand on Heart celebrates British Sign Language (BSL) with evenings of true stories told live in sign and visual vernacular, with voice over. Red Earth is looking for 10 budding BSL storytellers. We’r...

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The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist

Everyone has heard of the small boy who dares to ask for more, but do you know the original story of Oliver Twist? Packed full of surprises for a modern audience, Red Earth’s adaptation of Charles Dic...

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Cinderella’s Last Ball

Cinderella is one of the best-loved stories in the world. In the proud tradition of Deaf Pantomime, we’ve kept all the ingredients that make the story so special: a wise and beautiful girl who i...

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Hansel & Gretel

Hansel & Gretel is one of the best known of the Grimms’ Tale, the most important and influential Western collection of folk tales ever published. In our retelling we have honoured the original but...

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Pirate and Parrot

Pirate and Parrot – a co-production with A Little Commitment and mac Birmingham. Set on the pirating high seas, a perfectly capable, yet diminutive Pirate (the world’s smallest) and a dowd...

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Price Tag

Price Tag – a 40 minute powerhouse of a show for teenage audiences. Price Tag takes a satirical swipe at the corporate world of fast food and touches on themes of health, exercise, protest, demo...

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Emil & The Detectives

An action packed adventure for the whole family. Emil and the Detectives has been adapted by Red Earth from the Classic children’s novel by Erich Kastner. The story of how a boy and his friends track ...

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Five

FIVE characters FIVE stories FIVE lives overlapping Once upon a time there were FIVE girls whose glorious technicolor dreams were of adventure and romance. As the years passed, their dreams faded and ...

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The Lost Happy Endings

Jub’s job is important and she’s very proud of it. She collects and sends out the Happy Endings from all the stories in the world in time for everybody’s bedtime. But one night she is caught by a wick...

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Cinderella's Sisters

Red Earth Theatre and Derby LIVE Special Story Spell Take: 1 sweet girl 1 wicked stepmother 1 handsome prince Add a royal invitation a fairy godmother a golden slipper Stir it all up and hey presto….W...

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The Crane

Based on the children’s book by Reiner Zimnik Red Earth Theatre in collaboration with Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham & Assembly Rooms Derby The Crane was originally commissioned by Hands Up So w...

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Hansel and Gretel

Red Earth Theatre & The Assembly Rooms & Guildhall Theatre “Come in, come in, you’ve nothing to fear, “ says the gentle old woman with kindly eyes. There’s no fooling us. It’s a trick of cours...

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The Last Balloon

Everything in Jink’s world is about to change and he is dreading it. But there’s no getting round this. His number’s up, his ticket’s booked, his seat’s reserved on the last balloon out. Wise-cracking...

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A Joshua Tree

A Joshua tree can live to be 5000 years old but the first 5 years of its life are the most crucial to its survival Joshua lives on a farm. His mum and dad know how to look after animals but are cluele...

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Double Take

Red Earth Theatre & Nottingham Playhouse – Roundabout T.I.E Double Take is inspired by the lives of African-Caribbean twins June and Jennifer Gibbon, who grew up in rural Wales in the 1970’s. Thei...

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