Simon Franklin

Live realisation of internationally acclaimed award winning film  incorporating movement & theatrics (Best Experimental Music Short, Richmond, Virginia International Film Festival)

A fast-paced and thrilling verse play about intertwined marital and political upheaval, trust. Told in blistering verse by one of the UK’s most celebrated poets.

The latest instalment in Proto-type’s provocative Truth to Power project takes you into the room where the lies begin. It visits Sheffield and Harrogate this month.

Gritty, uncompromising and dark new dance-theatre from bold and brave choreographer Rhiannon Faith. Autobiographical testimonials and text to amplify the voices of the vulnerable and unheard in modern Britain’s areas of social deprivation.

One woman’s quest for tortured beefcake, 80s action and raw sexual power. Poet, theatremaker, translator and feminist powerhouse Rosy Carrick gets Musclebound to examine our most shameful sexual secrets

Rocks, beats and geological time: this is a violent, fun, loud and lyrical experience, with projection design from award-winning Limbic Cinema looking at how copper mining has fuelled the growth of human civilization for the last 10,000 years.

Rocks, beats and geological time: this is a violent, fun, loud and lyrical experience, with projection design from award-winning Limbic Cinema looking at how copper mining has fuelled the growth of human civilization for the last 10,000 years.

Fresh from wowing huge crowds when opening for The Libertines and John Cooper Clarke, Luke serves up banger after banger at one of the hottest, most poetic, late-night shows in town. Rock n roll poetry at its visceral, inventive best.

Manchester’s Award-winning Hope Mill Theatre makes its Fringe debut with Classic! a new comic play, featuring a multitude of classic novels in 60 minutes. 

A play for today with a style that’s pure class as brother and sister confront their past to secure their future.  MUCK is new play that has been selected for a London premiere at the first Come What May Festival at Park Theatre, 12-14 May

Leading poet delivers his new collection with the ferocity and panache of a raconteur at the very top of his game.

New York/London choir led by the charismatic Rev Billy come to the UK to celebrate their 20th anniversary and sing their joyful, radical music for the Earth to the attendees of the COP26 International Conference for Climate Change.