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After a successful development performance at ACCA in 2024, Earth Teeth returns to the stage as part of Brighton Festival, with a bigger budget & more spectacle
The Monday BYC teenage group brought this brilliant play by Alistair McDowall to life on the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts in November 2024
A trapped girl’s hopes are kept alive by hearing folktales from Ukraine, North & Central Africa, the Middle East, & more. Performed at Brighton Dome in Dec 2024
For the 2024 winter show at ACCA, ThirdSpace actors focused on performing without dialogue, including physical theatre & poetry, mask & ensemble work.
In July 2024, ThirdSpace’s infant & junior actors stepped out onto BOAT’s stage in the sun to show audiences what kites meant to them & those across the world.
“Everything is part of a bigger system, everything plays their part. Everything except us.” A development performance of a new play, performed by our 16+ group
A Theatre-in-Education piece funded by the Fonthill Foundation explored Caribbean soldiers who came to Seaford to fight in WWI, toured to 4 schools in the city.
Down at the Rose Hill pub, things are not what they seem. It’s a world where Puck, Titania, and Bottom may remind you of your friends, your family, or even yourself.
In 2023, ThirdSpace returned to Brighton Festival with an exciting twist on a classic tale. This play brought the ancient story to life for today’s audience.
After the success of the 2019 production and having weathered the Covid-19 pandemic, Brighton Festival commissioned a redevelopment of our skatepark Shakespeare
After lockdown, we returned to the stage with an anthology of stories, each told by a different 12-16 group, held together by our Wednesday 16+ group. We were able to tell an epic and large story whilst ensuring we worked within current COVID-19 regulations.
ThirdSpace Theatre (then Windmill Young Actors), in partnership with BYC, presented Romeo and Juliet in Hollingdean Skatepark, at the time our most ambitious and creatively challenging production ever!
Adapted from a novel for the stage by Amanda Dalton, Nothing is a story about existentialism, the loss of youth in modern life, and youth identity, and was one of the most thematically rich and intense scripts we’ve performed.
In the wake of the dramatic success of Agamemnon, and political turmoil forming the backdrop of Britain at the time, the Wednesday 16+ ensemble tackled the subject of revolution in our most experimental production yet.
Nominated for Best Family Show in the Fringe, the show was a beautifully whimsical anthology of these stories, telling the story of a young girl escaping her life through the fairytales her grandmother told her.
Performing in Brighton Fringe 2017, ThirdSpace Theatre (then Windmill Young Actors) brought Berkoff’s iconic adaptation of the Greek classic, winning the Fringe Outstanding Theatre award of that year!
An early foray into truly politically driven theatre, this double bill of shows from our two senior groups explored ideas of revolution, patriarchy, the power of the media, and oppression.
For the first time in a summer production, we involved actors from as young as 8 to as old as 18 to create an utterly striking and devasting version of the Scottish play.
Our first original adaptation, ThirdSpace (then Windmill Young Actors) was lucky enough to be given permission by Jane Ray to adapt her beautiful novel about youth, friendship, and survival.
Telling stories such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Arabian Nights was driven by a key ideal which ThirdSpace still holds to this day – children’s theatre doesn’t have to be sanitized.
For our first Brighton Fringe show, we chose Orwell’s classic story of revolution and fascism, and told it with an all female cast to rave reviews!
Past & Present.