Heroica Theatre Company

01/08/2025

Up-and-coming performances of 'Pat Douthwaite: Alive and Kicking': take your pick! Don't miss out: bookings filling fast for these final 2025 performances:

The Lillie Gallery, Milngavie Glasgow G62 8BZ
Friday August 15th 6.30pm
Tickets £15 plus booking fee: https://edlc.ticketlight.co.uk/

The Space, Hebden Bridge Town Hall HX7 7BY
Thursday August 21st 7pm
Tickets £12: https://buytickets.at/heroicatheatrecompany/1703195

Kirkcudbright Galleries, St Mary's Street DG6 4AA
(part of the Kirkcudbright Fringe 2025)
Saturday September 6th 6pm
Tickets £12-£15: available after June 1st at https://kbtfringe.com/

Duration: approx 70 minutes. Some triggering themes.
All performances to be followed by a Q&A with the actor and the writer.

Please remember you can also DONATE to this and ongoing Heroica projects by going to the SUPPORT US page of the Heroica website:
https://www.heroicatheatrecompany.co.uk/supportus

28/05/2025

Take your pick! Scarborough? Milngavie? Hebden Bridge? or lovely Kirkcudbright? The venues for our summer 2025 performances of 'Pat Douthwaite: Alive and Kicking'. Make it a lovely day out or weekend away? Get to one of them if you can - we've been hailed as a triumph.

25/04/2025

Will you come to Scarborough Fair? Make a lovely day out of it on the train: amble by the sands or on the cliffs, be at the Old Parcels Office in the railway station yard, for the 7.30 show, then you're back on the platform for the train home! What could be nicer? Plus Alexandra Mathie and Angie Cairns in 'Pat Douthwaite: Alive and Kicking' to boot! Two shows: 17th and 18th June. Book here:

One-woman show with live piano and projected images. The play pulls no punches, so get ready for an extraordinary performance – that will certainly get you talking.

11/03/2025

No wonder Pat's raging! We had to do the unthinkable and, for the first time ever, break the old theatre rule: we had to postpone two performances! (New dates TBA.) Covid wove its wicked way into our house and decided to stay long enough to infect us both. Alex is still positive and really unwell, and I'm negative but completely wrung out. There was no way we could have loaded up and travelled and performed and everything. But sincere apologies to all, especially those who were planning to come to the performance at the Lillie Gallery on Friday. We do hope you will be able to make it on the re-scheduled date. Watch this space.

06/03/2025

This year Heroica Theatre Company celebrates International Women’s Day by honouring the extraordinary German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945).

Käthe Kollwitz was not merely a sculptor, painter, lithographer and printmaker but a profound social documenter who used her crafts as a voice, often lone, crying out against the derelictions of the twentieth century: especially war, injustice, poverty and hunger.

Kollwitz felt most keenly the plight of women who were so often left to suffer their losses alone and to try vainly to feed children. Her tender, moving depictions all carry – both despite and because of their beauty – trenchant condemnations of war.

After a lifetime of outrageous incidences of side-lining because she was a woman, perhaps it is Kollwitz’s dogged persistence that is to be most admired. She never ceased in her creations – whether in charcoal, paints, print or bronze - that silently railed against the system, and the message in all her works is both deeply affecting and glaringly unavoidable.

In something of a reversal of her lifetime’s experience of marginalisation, Käthe Kollwitz is now honoured most handsomely especially in Berlin, with her sculptures prominent in its parks, squares, main thoroughfares and, of course, a specially designated museum.

Go to Heroica’s International Women’s Day page https://www.heroicatheatrecompany.co.uk/international-womens-day
to read more and see a sample of some of Käthe Kollwitz’s most celebrated works.

26/02/2025

For all our Glasgow friends: want to catch Alexandra Mathie in a special performance of 'Pat Douthwaite: Alive and Kicking' at the beautiful Lillie Art Gallery in Milngavie? Friday 14th March at 6.30pm! Book now at https://edlc.ticketlight.co.uk/

13/02/2025

Wow! This is nice!

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