ACTA provides opportunities for excluded groups to experience and participate in theatre, by delivering quality arts projects in and around Bristol. Its key areas of activity neighbourhood arts, work with young people, and work with learning disabled people. Projects include theatre, carnival, music, video and visual arts.
Activate Performing Arts is the theatre and dance development agency for Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole. It was formed in 2004 as a regularly funded organisation of Arts Council England South West to initiate, develop and sustain a range of dance and theatre opportunities for the people of Dorset and the south west.
Presents a programme of dance, theatre, music and children's theatre, supported by an extensive programme of opportunities to participate in theatre and dance activity.
South Dorset based AsOne Theatre aims to bring quality, professionally devised, multi-media performance - with music and projected image – to venues throughout Wessex
The Barrington Theatre is a 250 seat facility offering professional and amateur shows and plays and is suitable for dancing with its maple sprung floor.
Since 1991 Bash Street has performed to an estimated 300,000 people. The company has been delighting audiences, both young and old, with its unique style of circus-theatre at major festivals throughout the UK, as well as in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Japan and Hong Kong
Bridgwater Arts Centre is a community Arts Centre, dedicated to creating opportunities for people to get involved in the arts – by taking part as well as watching!
Bridport Arts Centre has a theatre and three gallery spaces. It is a pivotal arts provider for West Dorset, delivering a diverse and professional performing and visual arts programme that meets community needs.
The Bristol Old Vic is an important producing theatre, offering a programme of classical, family theatre and new writing. It has a reputation for co-producing and promoting culturally diverse theatre and has a wide rqnging education programme.
Carn to Cove is Cornwall’s performing arts touring scheme which brings quality professional artists into rural areas. It works in partnership with local authorities partnerships, to establish audiences for and participation in theatre, dance and music
Forkbeard Fantasy is an established touring company creating theatre which blends film, amination and cartoon live on stage. The company's touring work is complemented by a programme of education work including summer schools and innovative, interactive film and theatre and exhibitions
Gadzooks is a co-operative organisation which aims to produce demanding theatre supported by on-going training and development of core skills in speech, movement and stagecraft.
The Gloucester Guildhall boasts two cinema screens, a concert hall, theatre, galleries, workshops and café-bar. Regular classes include street dance, breakdancing, drama for the under-5s, juggling and creative writing
Hall for Cornwall is the largest theatre in Cornwall offering a mix of live theatre shows from musicals, children's shows, gigs, drama, plays and music shows. The Upstage Youth Theatre runs groups for 7-18-year-olds and there’s also vocal groups for 11-16s.
The Inside Out Festival brings free outdoor performance to Dorset, transforming the landscape with performances by international companies, involving fire sculptures, circus, theatre and dance
From its base in Cornwall Kneehigh produces and tours new, high quality, exciting and engaging theatre for family and mixed audiences to indoor and outdoor venues nationally and internationally.
Dance theatre company drawing on a wealth of dance/movement styles such as physical theatre, funk, hip hop culture as well as contemporary dance, jazz and capoeira.
Miracle Theatre, based in Cornwall, tours original, high quality small-scale theatre for family and mixed audiences to a wide range of rural, community and theatre venues throughout the South West
Natural Theatre is a highly successful company, renowned for both its indoor and outdoor comic-visual theatre. The company tours nationally and and internationally and is involved in training new street theatre artists
The North Devon Theatres' Trust is a key partner in audience, theatre, music and dance development in Devon and the region. It aims are promote the improvement and development of artistic knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts and their cultural and educational value in North Devon
The Northcott is a producing repertory theatre, that is to say the bulk of the productions are staged by the company itself, rather than being brought in from elsewhere.
The Regal Theatre stands in the centre of Minehead, and is loved by the people of West Somerset for its wide ranging programme of professional and community entertainment that includes drama, comedy, dance, music and performance of all kinds
The current events programme is diverse, providing a mix of professional music of all kinds, small to mid- scale touring theatre, film, dance, and extensive use by some ten local amateur companies, representing approximately 400 events annually
RumDoxy Theatre aims to produce exciting theatre from the heart. Their productions range from traditional performance and texts to contemporary mixed media adaptations and devised work.
Salisbury Arts Centre presents a range of of theatre, music and dance events, a visual arts programme and provides a key focus for local community and social activities.
Salisbury Playhouse is one of Britain’s leading producing theatres, with a national reputation for work of the highest quality and an extensive participation programme
Started out as a very small tented circus. In the last ten years Sardine has evolved into a street act, a children's show and now into Sardine Circus Productions, a fully grown theatre company
Scratch Productions produces quirky, eye-catching street theatre featuring a plethora of off-the-wall characters to bring elements of the extraordinary to any occasion
'SATTF' is one of the leading professional producers of Shakespeare in the U.K. From our inception eight years ago we have mounted annual, two-play spring seasons of Shakespeare (and others) at our home in Bristol's most exciting studio theatre and played a 5-week season in London at the Barbican Centre
Show Of Strength has produced new work in non theatre spaces for over twenty years, and created three informal, intimate and accessible new venues in Bristol – most recently the Tobacco Factory (1998).
Sixth Sense produces and tours original theatre for young people. Integrating education and performance programmes, the company takes closely researched issue-based work to a variety of theatre and community venues throughout the country
Community theatre company in Torbay specialising in new work about local history and myths. Members are aged 16+ and there are always opportunities to take part in performance, techincal, or organisational roles
The Sundial Theatre at Cirencester College was opened in January 1998 as a professional and community venue. The programme includes touring theatre, classical and folk music, lectures and celebrity evenings.
The 566-seat Bacon Theatre plays host to professional touring theatre, live music, dance, film and celebrity speakers as well as productions by local youth and community groups. It is located in the grounds of Dean Close School, Cheltenham
The Brewhouse promotes a programme of theatre, music and dance events and runs a contemporary gallery. It also runs a programme of courses, workshops and residencies
The Common Players specialise in producing and touring small-scale original theatre for family and mixed audiences to a variety of indoor and outdoor rural venues in the region.
The Exeter Phoenix offers a contemporary programme of dance, theatre, music, live art, film, spoken word and visual art. It also offers participatory activities
The Merlin Theatre presents a programme of innovative theatre, dance and music. It also works to link artists in the region with the theatre and local community, running a range of workshops, courses and longer-term community arts projects
The Theatre Royal Plymouth is the premier venue for large-scale theatre, music and dance in the south west. The theatre has an active education and community programme which has been enhanced by the opening of the Education and Production Centre
The Works! is the development agency for dance and theatre in Cornwall, committed to working in partnership with artists, companies, venues, cultural development organisations, educational establishments and community groups to develop a vibrant performing arts ecology in Cornwall
Its aim is to offer a friendly and informative meeting place for like-minded individuals, where you can list your professional details, network, join discussion groups, find out about jobs and funding opportunities, and hear about performances and events taking place across the city
Brimming with history, the Theatre Royal Bath is one of the oldest and most beautiful theatres in Britain. Comprising three auditoria, the Main House, Ustinov Studio and the egg theatre for children and young people, a wonderfully varied programme of top quality entertainment is on offer all year round.
The Tobacco Factory theatre is a non-conventional, versatile theatre space, which has been used for performance since 1998. Often described as ‘intimate’ and 'raw', the space seats up to 250 people and can be arranged in the round, end-on, traverse, or thrust. The building used to be, believe it or not, a tobacco factory
Travelling Light one of the UK's leading creators of new and stimulating theatre for young audiences. It is a professional touring company taking its work to schools theatres, community venues and festivals in nationally and internationally.
Villages in Action is a rural touring scheme in Devon. It works with local authorities to bring professional performances of theatre, dance, music and arts and participatory workshops to rural communities at affordable prices
Wildworks make unique and spectacular landscape theatre - performances and artworks that grow out of their locations; quarries, cliffs, harbours, derelict industrial sites, castles and empty department stores
Wyvern Theatre is named after a mythical beast, similar to a dragon, which was once the emblem of the Kings of Wessex. The auditorium has 615 seats and every seat is designed to be no further than 70ft from the stage.
