Big Brum toured 'Romeo and Juliet' early 2022. The performance is aimed at whole year groups, and involves an experimental use of live theatre and film. The company has taken the step of combining live theatre with filmed elements so as to enhance the form as well as the content of Shakespeare’s play. This aesthetic and blended approach will transform the audience into the streets and homes of Romeo and Juliet’s Verona, while at the same time resonating with the streets and homes of the young audience's lives today.

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What happens when we’re deprived of human contact? Join us as we tell the story of a teacher in isolation working through the death of his son. Our new digital Theatre in Education programme, ‘Socially Distant’, is inspired by the themes that have come to light during the pandemic, as well as those found in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – disconnection, isolation, repression and civil dissonance.

TOURED: Spring Term 2020

‘Paper Umbrella’ is a past Theatre in Education programme based on a recent short play by Rowan Padmore. The play echoes the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy and prompts urgent questions about authority, community, society and the pressures upon people growing up with the stark realities of disadvantage, injustice and prejudice.

TOURED: 2006 — 2014

‘Giant’s Embrace’ toured primary schools and theatres between 2006 to 2014 and was created by Big Brum as a fairy-tale for early years that explores the relationship between a young boy and a greedy giant.

TOURED: Jan 2019 — May 2020

‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was adapted by Chris Cooper based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella, and Big Brum toured it in 2019 and 2020. The spooky thriller explores the complexities of science and the duplicity of human nature. Dr Jekyll is a doctor in battle with himself and also with his evil alter-ego, Mr Hyde, who does not accept responsibility for his actions or have a conscience.

TOURED: Sep — Dec 2018

‘Worlds Apart Together’ is Part V of Big Brum’s ‘The End of Reason: 1914 – 1918’ Theatre in Education project consisting of five plays. This play by Chris Cooper explored the experiences of ordinary men and women forever changed by the First World War.

TOURED: Sep — Nov 2019

“What makes a monster, a monster?” It’s the question that ‘Minotaur’, a play by Chris Cooper, aims to answer. Gods and monsters, heroes and kings – these are the main focuses of Greek mythology. But what about the perspective of the ‘monster’ inside the labyrinth?

TOURED: Jan — Jul 2018

‘Flee’ explores the lives of two lost children whose worlds are in transition: one, a young Syrian refugee and the other, a disruptive child, bullied both at home and school. The play tells their stories in tandem, drawing on the similarities of the characters’ isolation and fights for survival, despite their paths and backgrounds being very different.

TOURED: May 2016 — Mar 2018

Big Brum’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic, ‘Macbeth’, explored the story of Fleance to the modern world: a young character tarnished by the decisions of adults through no fault of his own.

TOURED: Oct — Dec 2016

In Part III of ‘The End of Reason: 1914 – 1918’ project, Big Brum explored themes of duty and equality, autonomy and freedom. Chris Cooper’s ‘Over The Top’ once again visited the experiences of serving men and women in the First World War and asked the question: “what would you kill for?”