Darkly comic play coming to Tideswell on 24th October – make sure you see it!

It’s hard to figure out a future when everyone around you thinks there isn’t one…

Get your tickets now for this funny, dark and sharply observed play and tell others about it too! Not to be missed!

Birdcatcher is a coming-of-age story with a difference. Laura Waldren’s striking new play asks what it takes to find your own voice inside an apocalyptic high-control group. With wit running through its darker edges, Birdcatcher explores the pressures of growing up into a world where the end is always just around the corner.

Directed by Pentabus’s BAFTA-winning Artistic Director Elle While, Birdcatcher is the world premiere of a brand-new play from the Papatango Prize-winning writer of ‘astonishing debut play’ ★★★★ (The Telegraph of Some Demon).

This powerful new play is coming to Tideswell Community Hall on 24^th October. Make sure you see this complicated, funny and deeply human play and bring your friends!

Birdcatcher is a production by Pentabus Theatre Company. They brought the exceptional Make Good, The Post Office Scandal to the village two years ago and it sold out – people are still talking about it! So this new play must be seen.

Written by Laura Waldren and directed by BAFTA-winning Elle While. Laura Waldren’s first play won the 2023 prestigious Papatango Prize. Elle While is Artistic Director of Pentabus and Associate Artist at Shakespeare’s Globe. The play stars Lucy Mangan, whose performance is electric. Her rigour, wit and heart ignite the production.

Exploring life within a strict religious community, it includes hard-hitting themes of coercive control and institutional abuse. strong language and descriptions of sexual acts and death.

Brought to Tideswell by Tideswell Theatre, Pentabus is the Nation’s Rural Theatre. There is an interval and pre-show bar for ticketholders.

7:30pm Saturday 24^th October at Tideswell Community Hall, Church Lane, Tideswell, SK17 8PD. Tickets £16 (£15 concessions): www.ticketsource.com/tideswelltheatre reservations: info@tideswelltheatre.org.uk or 07973963525.

Also coming up this autumn (booking details as above): 31^st October – The Tideswell Tales: Tideswell Community Players’ series of originally written spooky stories specially written for Halloween and an intimate evening of theatre. (limited tickets left). 12^th November – Marcella’s Minute To Midnight – can Marcella find a new purpose and fulfilment in later life? More details very soon!