Making extraordinary theatre with extraordinary people.

Let Me Tell You

Throughout Spring 2010 Unfolding Theatre worked with a group of recovering heroin addicts to create a remarkable installation.

Let Me Tell You was presented in June 2010 an empty shop in Stockton-on-Tees.

It explored the recovering addicts' past, present and hopes for the future.

Designer: Imogen Cloet
Filmmaker: Alex Elliott
Director: Annie Rigby

Noah and the Fludd

In May 2010 Unfolding Theatre was delighted to work with award-winning children's writer, David Almond, to produce Noah and the Fludd.

The show was performed on a massive outdoor stage at The Sands, Durham, as part of the Durham Mysteries festival.

Noah and the Fludd was performed by a fantastic community cast from Esh Winning and Waterhouses in County Durham.

Featuring escaping gorillas, a Geordie God and a glorious 'nark', the piece was a hilarious retelling of this iconic story.

Strange Voyage

In December 2009 Unfolding Theatre produced a show exploring the tragic voyage of round-the-world yachtsman, Donald Crowhurst.

Inspired by entries in Crowhurst's real and faked logbooks, Strange Voyage revealed the devastating mental impact of long term isolation and deceit.

As Crowhurst's lies distanced him not only from his true position, but also from hope of salvation, the piece explored how and why we construct our own beliefs.

The production was created with students at Northumbria University.

Don Quixote!

For an intensive week in June 2009 Unfolding Theatre worked with break-dancer, Paul Allen (Bad Taste Cru) and visual artist, Josie Stewart to create a knightly adventure with Classes 1 & 2 from Percy Hedley Primary School.

Inspired by Don Quixote, the children made shields and helmets, perfected dance moves and created stories for themselves - a brand new band of knights.

This project was part of the Find Your Talent programme.

A Daydream to Remember

From January to March 2009 Unfolding Theatre was in residence at Mill Hill Primary School, Sunderland.

Inspired by the power of imagination, Year 5 & 6 created and performed a new play. The story followed the adventure of a class uprooted by their own imaginations to the mysterious world of Kids-Turned-into-Adults Land.