Productions Archive
Graeae’s Rollettes present The Buccaneers’ Final Frontiers
The Rollettes’ have been hurtling through the galaxy, training to become space pirates. When they accidentally land in The Scoop, the crew find themselves in a whole new world of chaos and new discoveries. The Rollettes are made up of …
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The Solid Life of Sugar Water – National Tour 2016
WINNER: Euan’s Guide Accessible Fringe Award 2015 5-stars (The Observer, UK Theatre Web) 4-stars (The Scotsman, The Herald, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Stage, FEST, The List, ThreeWeeks, Broadway Baby, British Theatre Guide,Time …
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Blood Wedding
In this day and age anybody can love anybody. Or are there still taboos? David Ireland’s radical new take on Lorca’s play re-fuels this classic story with a contemporary twist. Jenny Sealey and David Ireland push this tale of searing …
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The Rollettes – Graeae’s Youth Programme
The Rollettes are back with a new show and this Christmas, only two things are certain – all reindeers are equal and the flying is optional. Originally inspired by Graeae’s wheelchair dancing troupe, the Rhinestone Rollers, the Rollettes (Graeae’s Young Artistic Advisors) are descending on the Southbank Centre and …
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The Iron Man 2014
The Iron Man returns to crunch and clank his way to some of the UK’s top outdoor festivals this summer. A talented cast of Deaf and disabled actors and musicians come together under the direction of Amit Sharma to re-create one …
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Reasons to be Cheerful – concert version
Join Vinnie and his mates for an evening of raucous glee in this hugely popular show. Oi Oi! Reasons to be Cheerful celebrates Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ greatest hits and promises to raise the roof with hit songs including …
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Belonging
Graeae and Circo Crescer e Viver present Belonging ‘There is no house like the house of belonging’ David Whyte Where do we long to be? This bittersweet aerial production, featuring hoops, trapeze and silks, brings together a group of international …
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Signs of a Diva
No one remembers mousey old Sue, the undertaker from Bingley Bridge, until she is offered a cabaret spot at Harry’s Place. Overnight, Tammy Frascati is born – Sue finds herself hurtling to stardom and Vegas, signing the songs of her …
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The Threepenny Opera
Imagine a world where evil goes unpunished, money is corrupt, the law is fickle and lowly souls remain on the poverty line. London’s most notorious criminal, Macheath, has recently married Polly, the daughter of Jonathan Peachum, leader of the beggars. …
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Deck the Stalls
Roll up, roll up Graeae’s Youth Programme presents Deck the Stalls A motley crew of audience members arrive at the theatre. But something is amiss and, although they think they’re in for a treat, hilarity ensures as they realise they …
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The Limbless Knight – A Tale of Rights Reignited
Films are in black and white or colour. This film is in grey. These are the grey stories that need to be told. In this immersive theatre experience you are invited to play extras in a film where nothing is …
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The Iron Man
THE IRON MAN COMETH! Following a hugely successful tour in 2011 The Iron Man returns to crunch and clank his way around the UK’s cultural festivals this summer. See below for tour dates, with more festivals to be announced soon. …
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Sequins and Snowballs
Graeae’s Rhinestone Rollers present Sequins and Snowballs Directed by Jenny Sealey (Paralympic Opening Ceremony, Reasons to be Cheerful and The Garden) and Amit Sharma (Prometheus Awakes), the Rhinestone Rollers are back and this winter they are dreaming of a white …
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The Garden
Graeae and Strange Fruit present The Garden, gravity defying outdoor theatre in three stories of grace, growing up and imagination.
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Reasons to be Cheerful
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL Reasons to be Cheerful was nominated for Best Touring Production and the Renee Shepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre at the TMA Theatre UK Awards Jenny Sealey said: ‘I’m thrilled that Reasons to be Cheerful has been …
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Prometheus Awakes
Feel the earth move and the sky explode in this epic re-interpretation of the famous Greek myth.
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The Iron Man
At festivals across England this summer, The Iron Man will be saving mankind – but only if we can control his insatiable hunger for metal! There is still chance to join him in Bristol and Stockton.
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Wheels on Broadway
Graeae’s Rhinestone Rollers – the UK’s premiere power-wheelchair dancing troupe are storming into 2011 with their fabulous new show – Wheels on Broadway.
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Reasons to be Cheerful
A musical set in 1979, featuring Dury classics from ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’ to ‘Spasticus Autisticus’. A top class cast and scorching live band pay tribute to Ian Dury’s anarchic spirit in this riotous coming-of-age tale.
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The Rhinestone Rollers
A journey from Elizabethan times to chorus lines and line dancing – the girls shake, shimmy and shuffle their way through time in search of love. Will they ever break free and find the fame they dream of?
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Against the Tide
Imagine an island, separated from the world by a vast desert. The tribe that survives here has almost forgotten what water is; each day they share stories and memories of it. Maybe, if they remember well enough, the water will come back?
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The Garden
Commissioned as part of Unlimited, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme, from an original idea conceived by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival.
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Signs of a Star Shaped Diva
No one remembers mousey old Sue, the undertaker from Bingley Bridge, until she is offered a cabaret spot at Harry’s Place.
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Just Me, Bell
Just Me, Bell by Sophie Partridge Bored of her pushy dad and exams, fed up with her clothes, Bell can’t even get detention for racing around school in her wheelchair. She wants what most 14-year-old girls want: boys, a bit …
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Hunchback of Notre Dame
Graeae worked in collaboration with BBC Radio Drama North on a radical radio dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic tale of love, betrayal and moral courage.
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Static
Discovering a compilation tape he never gave her, a young widow becomes convinced it contains a secret message. Is her late husband trying to communicate from beyond the grave?
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Flower Girls
Flower Girls is the funny, beautifully observed and uplifting story of a group of disabled women who live and work at The Crippleage, Edgware.
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Whiter than Snow
When the perfect Snow White turns up, all their prayers are answered. But it’s soon clear the new star is too good, too clever and… well, just too perfect. As families begin to disappear and soldiers close in, the Frantz troupe falls into disarray.
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George Dandin
George Dandin or Mr Waddle, the Outwitted Husband by Molière in a new translation by Philip Osment Self-made man George Waddle suspects his wife has a lover; he is determined to prove to his impoverished but aristocratic in-laws that their …
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Blasted
Blasted by Sarah Kane Through dark landscapes of human longing and cruelty – from a gleaming hotel room, through threats and spite to personal brutality. Violence seems to spread like a virus until the world is engulfed and all is …
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Diary of an Action Man
Diary of an Action Man by Mike Kenny A co-production with Unicorn Theatre for Children Ezra’s toy action man (who is his imaginary dad) springs to life when no-one’s looking. In the safety of his bedroom and away from the …
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Bent
Germany 1934. Amid awakening fascist terror and persecution of homosexuals, a surprising love story unfolds. Travelling from the intoxicating world of Berlin’s gay nightclubs to the bleak horror of Dachau, Bent is a harrowing, historical tale of love, hate and prejudice.
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peeling
Alpha, Beaty and Coral – three actresses in ridiculous dresses – bicker, chat, heckle and share tales of sex, lies and recipes in absurd isolation as a fabulous production unfolds around them.
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