Unfolding Theatre

07/09/2026

🎭 East End Story Makers is back next Wednesday! 🎭

We’ll be working with the brilliant musical maestro Tim Dalling as we create, play and work towards our next performance. ✨

East End Story Makers is a free weekly creative group for 7–14 year olds, every Wednesday, 4–5.30pm at The Lighthouse Project in Byker.

Come make stories and theatre with us! 🎵

📍 The Lighthouse Project, Byker
🗓️ Wednesdays, 4–5.30pm, term-time
💷 Free — booking required

Find out more: unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/east-end-story-makers

UnfoldingTheatre

07/09/2026

🎭 East End Story Makers is back next Wednesday! 🎭

We’ll be working with the brilliant musical maestro Tim Dalling as we create, play and work towards our next performance. ✨

East End Story Makers is a free weekly creative group for 7–14 year olds, every Wednesday, 4–5.30pm at The Lighthouse Project in Byker.

Come make stories and theatre with us! 🎵

📍 The Lighthouse Project
🗓️ Wednesdays, 4.30pm, term-time
💷 Free - booking required

Find out more - https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/east-end-story-makers

Performance development supported by The Squires Foundation.

04/09/2026

✨ Exciting announcement!

North East writer Alison Carr has won a prestigious Peter Shaffer Commission to develop a brand new play with Unfolding Theatre.

'That Friday Feeling (but Friday is the Apocalypse)' promises to be a darkly funny play about closures, endings and what we leave behind.

Set in the offices of the London Gazette as the world starts to fall apart, it asks: what happens when everything we thought was permanent starts to disappear?

The £7,294 commission, administered by the National Theatre in collaboration with the Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation, will support the next stage of development.

And we’re very excited to see where this extraordinary idea takes us. 💛

Read the full story → head to the link in our bio.

Theatre

04/09/2026

✨ Exciting announcement!

North East writer Alison Carr has won a prestigious Peter Shaffer Commission to develop a brand new play with Unfolding Theatre.

'That Friday Feeling (but Friday is the Apocalypse)' promises to be a darkly funny play about closures, endings and what we leave behind.

Set in the offices of the London Gazette as the world starts to fall apart, it asks: what happens when everything we thought was permanent starts to disappear?

The £7,294 commission, administered by the National Theatre in collaboration with the Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation, will support the next stage of development.

And we’re very excited to see where this extraordinary idea takes us. 💛

Read the full story → https://tinyurl.com/ytuvma42

02/09/2026

🎭 Cowgate Young Theatre Makers is back!

Starting Monday 7th September - come and play, create, perform and make new friends!

📅 Mondays, 4 - 5.30pm
📍 The Cowshed, Cowgate (Projects 4 Change)
🎟️ FREE | Ages 8–14

Places are limited - book now!

📧 [email protected]
📱 07842 855 761

https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/whatson/cowgatetheatremakers-7472j-bytte-z5xw2-nm5kd



📸 Von Fox Promotions

FAMILY EXPLORERS NORTH EAST - Day out reviews and recommendations

26/08/2026

Newcastle’s cultural future is being shaped and you’re invited to be part of it.

Join us at Northern Stage, Fri 2 Oct (10am – 1pm) as we bring together organisations, freelancers and creatives to explore:

✨ How we can work together to build prosperity in Newcastle’s cultural ecology
✨ Best practice for the freelancers and organisations who make up the city’s workforce
✨ The next steps for Newcastle Culture Partnership

Hosted by Annie Rigby (Unfolding Theatre), Sam Brimer & Leila D’Aronville (North East Cultural Freelancers )

Tickets + bursary info - https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/whatson/2026/10/2/lets-talk-about-prosperity

📸 Von Fox Promotions

25/08/2026

Could you nominate Unfolding Theatre for a North East Culture Award? 💛

We’re asking our friends, audiences and supporters to nominate Unfolding Theatre for a North East Culture Award 2026!

We’d particularly love nominations for The Arts Council England Award, which celebrates the arts and cultural experiences that have made a positive difference to people’s lives.

Maybe Dear Sunderland was your highlight of the year? Or Here Be Dragons? Did Clear the Way make you reframe your year? Has your child enjoyed one of our youth theatre programmes? Or perhaps you’ve experienced another Unfolding project that stayed with you.

You can also nominate us in the Performance of the Year category - for Dear Sunderland, Here Be Dragons or another category that feels right.

The more nominations we receive, the better - so if Unfolding Theatre has made you laugh, think, connect, create or see your world differently, we’d be incredibly grateful for your support.

Thank you! 💛

You can nominate here 👉https://necultureawards.com/northeastcultureawards2026/en/page/home

North East Culture Awards

20/08/2026

Stuck for things to do with the kids this summer?

Then explore our recent project - Don't Get Lost in the Portal - with the East End Story Makers!

Working together with the Unfolding Theatre team, our young theatre-makers co-created this new audio story by developing the script, creating artwork, and producing the eventual audio experience (available to listen to below).

An inspirational bit of listening for youngsters this summer (and a cracking story that will make them laugh too)!

Don't forget that East End Story Makers returns in September:

📅 Wednesdays (during term term-time)
⏱️ 4.00pm - 5.30pm
📍Lighthouse Project Byker

https://www.unfoldingtheatre.co.uk/dont-get-lost-in-the-portal

📸 Von Fox Promotions

17/08/2026

This summer, we're revisiting the Unfolding Theatre archive and reintroducing a few of our past productions.

Next up - A Street Like This!

A Street Like This premiered at The Fire Station in June 2023 and toured regionally in autumn 2023 to Gosforth Civic Theatre, Thornley Village Centre (a No More Nowt Culture Hub), Jarrow Focus, The Tute and 17Nineteen.

Written by Alison Carr (Finalist: Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2022) with music by Ross Millard (The Futureheads), the show was co-created with a community company: a group of local Sunderland residents.

A Street Like This is a show about the unexpected friendships that arise when something unforeseen happens, changing the way people define themselves forever and throwing them into a world of new possibilities.

This music-filled theatre production reminds us that even at a time of social division, we have more in common than keeps us apart.

It won Performance of the Year at the 2023 North East Culture Awards

Did you catch A Street Like This? Let us know what you thought by dropping a comment below!

📹 Von Fox Promotions

16/08/2026

Wonderful to perform Dear Sunderland once again yesterday, this time at Sunderland Minster. A really gorgeous, well-attended community event, so many rich conversations and friendly faces. Well done to everyone involved 👏

In partnership with Cultural Spring.

Article from Sunderland Echo.

"Unity in the Community is all about celebrating Sunderland and the people who make it such a fantastic place to live.”