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Who do you care about and why?

'Feel Me' is an interactive theatre show from The Paper Birds, UK leaders in devised verbatim theatre. The show asks, via your mobile phone, who and what you care about from the stories unfolding live on stage in front of you.

A stunning mixture of live performance, film, projection, dance and music, 'Feel Me' will explore the different lenses through which we are told, and connect to stories in the modern digital world.

Worlds unfold from backpacks, and tents are constructed and dismantled again, each scene and location temporary, like a transient teenager in search of safety, acceptance and a new place to call home.

An interrogation of empathy, 'Feel Me' asks what makes us ‘feel’ for another person, as we journey through landscapes and across borders, through weather storms and paperwork, changing seasons, endless queues and interviews.

Working with academics from Essex University, the theatre company uses audiences' mobile phones to measure empathy levels during and after the show. The data is then shared live as part of the performance.

Audiences use their phones to anonymously share their emotional responses at different moments during the show. The interactive elements are woven into the performance, which combines live theatre, film, projection and dance.


Presented by The Paper Birds and the New Wolsey Theatre.

Production photography - Will Green Photography

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Who do you care about and why?

'Feel Me' is an interactive theatre show from The Paper Birds, UK leaders in devised verbatim theatre. The show asks, via your mobile phone, who and what you care about from the stories unfolding live on stage in front of you.

A stunning mixture of live performance, film, projection, dance and music, 'Feel Me' will explore the different lenses through which we are told, and connect to stories in the modern digital world.

Worlds unfold from backpacks, and tents are constructed and dismantled again, each scene and location temporary, like a transient teenager in search of safety, acceptance and a new place to call home.

An interrogation of empathy, 'Feel Me' asks what makes us ‘feel’ for another person, as we journey through landscapes and across borders, through weather storms and paperwork, changing seasons, endless queues and interviews.

Working with academics from Essex University, the theatre company uses audiences' mobile phones to measure empathy levels during and after the show. The data is then shared live as part of the performance.

Audiences use their phones to anonymously share their emotional responses at different moments during the show. The interactive elements are woven into the performance, which combines live theatre, film, projection and dance.


Presented by The Paper Birds and the New Wolsey Theatre.

Production photography - Will Green Photography

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“Welcome to our space. You are a guest, and we are not f..kin’ sorry!”

The Not Your Circus Dog collective return after their sold-out runs in 2019 and 2022 for more shameless sexy punk crip cabaret. With luscious lip syncs, sweaty dances and verbatim stories have your preconceptions rattled as we take you to the edge.

‘These four performers are some of the bravest, boldest, most candid and risk-taking on the contemporary London theatre scene.’
Disability Arts Online

★★★★★ - ‘An incredibly life-affirming event.’ - Broadway World

★★★★ - ‘Perfectly deliver the message that learning disabled and neurodivergent performers…are a true force to be reckoned with.’ - North West End

Age Guidance: 16+.

Content advice: discussions of hate crimes and sex, strong language and some audience participation.

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Written by Margaret May Hobbs
Directed and designed by Michael Lunney

Starring Alasdair Baker, Estrid Barton, Isabella Inchbald, Joey Lockhart, Luke Rhodri and Theo Woolford.

Middle Ground Theatre Company Ltd is delighted to present Dial M For Mayhem, a brand new charming comedy drama from the author and director of the hugely successful courtroom phenomenon The Verdict.
Set in 1991, it follows of a group of travelling actors from south of the Scottish border as they conquer the beautiful unforgiving landscape of the Highlands and Islands village hall circuit to perform Frederick Knott’s classic 1950’s thriller Dial M For Murder.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of mountains and lochs, complete with unpredictable Scottish weather and internal company squabbling, Act 1's gentle comic yarn gives way to Act 2's gleeful back stage comedy of the play within the play!

“Impressive... keeps the laughter rolling. 4 STARS” Behind the Arras

“A joy to watch. 4 STARS” Fairypoweredproductions.com

“A theatrical treat. 4 STARS” Derbyworld

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Written by Margaret May Hobbs
Directed and designed by Michael Lunney

Starring Alasdair Baker, Estrid Barton, Isabella Inchbald, Joey Lockhart, Luke Rhodri and Theo Woolford.

Middle Ground Theatre Company Ltd is delighted to present Dial M For Mayhem, a brand new charming comedy drama from the author and director of the hugely successful courtroom phenomenon The Verdict.
Set in 1991, it follows of a group of travelling actors from south of the Scottish border as they conquer the beautiful unforgiving landscape of the Highlands and Islands village hall circuit to perform Frederick Knott’s classic 1950’s thriller Dial M For Murder.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of mountains and lochs, complete with unpredictable Scottish weather and internal company squabbling, Act 1's gentle comic yarn gives way to Act 2's gleeful back stage comedy of the play within the play!

“Impressive... keeps the laughter rolling. 4 STARS” Behind the Arras

“A joy to watch. 4 STARS” Fairypoweredproductions.com

“A theatrical treat. 4 STARS” Derbyworld

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Tilted Wig and MAST Mayflower Studios presents

SPITFIRE GIRLS

By Katherine Senior

INSPIRED BY REMARKABLE TRUE EVENTS

“It’s built for us, isn’t it? The Spitfire. Built for women.”

New Year’s Eve, 1959.

Decades after answering the call, two women separated by the war meet again as the rain hammers down on the windows of The Spitfire pub.

As we hear their story, we’re transported back to a time when female pioneers defied expectations and soared through the skies.

Spitfire Girls is inspired by the extraordinary true stories of the women who dared to fly during WWII and the incredible bond that tied them together.

Funny and heart-warming, this is an untold story of strength, courage and loss. But above all else, hope.

Recommended ages 10+.

Spitfire Girls was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.

This production contains themes of war.

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Tilted Wig and MAST Mayflower Studios presents

SPITFIRE GIRLS

By Katherine Senior

INSPIRED BY REMARKABLE TRUE EVENTS

“It’s built for us, isn’t it? The Spitfire. Built for women.”

New Year’s Eve, 1959.

Decades after answering the call, two women separated by the war meet again as the rain hammers down on the windows of The Spitfire pub.

As we hear their story, we’re transported back to a time when female pioneers defied expectations and soared through the skies.

Spitfire Girls is inspired by the extraordinary true stories of the women who dared to fly during WWII and the incredible bond that tied them together.

Funny and heart-warming, this is an untold story of strength, courage and loss. But above all else, hope.

Recommended ages 10+.

Spitfire Girls was developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.

This production contains themes of war.

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A New Wolsey Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre by the Lake production.

A wildly hilarious, fast-paced comedy that takes you behind the curtain of a chaotic touring theatre company desperately trying to maintain their composure and regain any shred of credibility.

From their frantic last-minute rehearsals in Weston-super-Mare to a disastrously silent performance in Ashton-under-Lyne, and a spectacularly calamitous final performance in Stockton-on-Tees, ‘Noises Off’ promises an evening of non-stop laughter and mayhem as the doomed actors struggle to keep their performance together whilst everything around them quite literally falls apart.

Written by the multi-award-winning British novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, this is a new production of one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Age guidance: 12+.

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A New Wolsey Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre by the Lake production.

A wildly hilarious, fast-paced comedy that takes you behind the curtain of a chaotic touring theatre company desperately trying to maintain their composure and regain any shred of credibility.

From their frantic last-minute rehearsals in Weston-super-Mare to a disastrously silent performance in Ashton-under-Lyne, and a spectacularly calamitous final performance in Stockton-on-Tees, ‘Noises Off’ promises an evening of non-stop laughter and mayhem as the doomed actors struggle to keep their performance together whilst everything around them quite literally falls apart.

Written by the multi-award-winning British novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, this is a new production of one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Age guidance: 12+.

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A New Wolsey Theatre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre by the Lake production.

A wildly hilarious, fast-paced comedy that takes you behind the curtain of a chaotic touring theatre company desperately trying to maintain their composure and regain any shred of credibility.

From their frantic last-minute rehearsals in Weston-super-Mare to a disastrously silent performance in Ashton-under-Lyne, and a spectacularly calamitous final performance in Stockton-on-Tees, ‘Noises Off’ promises an evening of non-stop laughter and mayhem as the doomed actors struggle to keep their performance together whilst everything around them quite literally falls apart.

Written by the multi-award-winning British novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, this is a new production of one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Age guidance: 12+.

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Escape to Treasure Island with Le Navet Bete and their swashbuckling, smash-hit comedy for all the family!

Featuring dastardly pirates, tropical islands and a mermaid you’ll never forget, set sail on the Jolly Todger with Jim Lad, Long John Silver and a whole host of other characters for a hilarious voyage across the seas. But will they get there in one piece? Is everyone who they say they are? And does ‘X’ really mark the spot?

Le Navet Bete (The Three Musketeers, Dracula: The Bloody Truth) are a multi award-winning physical comedy company based in Devon. Joining forces with one of UK theatre’s best comedy writers and directors John Nicholson (Peepolykus, BBC Radio 4), the company of four play out Robert Louis Stevenson’s legendary tale as you’ve NEVER seen it before!

‘A ripping good yarn with an abundance of theatrical surprises’ ⋆⋆⋆⋆ The Stage

‘Great fun! Ideal for children who love an adventure’ ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Reviewshub

Production photography: Mark Dawson

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Escape to Treasure Island with Le Navet Bete and their swashbuckling, smash-hit comedy for all the family!

Featuring dastardly pirates, tropical islands and a mermaid you’ll never forget, set sail on the Jolly Todger with Jim Lad, Long John Silver and a whole host of other characters for a hilarious voyage across the seas. But will they get there in one piece? Is everyone who they say they are? And does ‘X’ really mark the spot?

Le Navet Bete (The Three Musketeers, Dracula: The Bloody Truth) are a multi award-winning physical comedy company based in Devon. Joining forces with one of UK theatre’s best comedy writers and directors John Nicholson (Peepolykus, BBC Radio 4), the company of four play out Robert Louis Stevenson’s legendary tale as you’ve NEVER seen it before!

‘A ripping good yarn with an abundance of theatrical surprises’ ⋆⋆⋆⋆ The Stage

‘Great fun! Ideal for children who love an adventure’ ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Reviewshub

Production photography: Mark Dawson

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