About the Company
© Nathan Edwards
Originally operating under 'Goblin Baby Theatre Co.' , the company was re-branded as 'Goblin Baby Co.' in 2017 when it expanded into further areas of work and production.
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Goblin Baby Co. is a currently Berlin- & formerly London based production company launched in March 2013. Goblin Baby creates bold and vibrant original works focused on authentic representation and radical exploration.
We are not afraid to address taboos and challenge the confines of conventional storytelling. We focus on creating work that gives a voice to people and perspectives too often unknown, forgotten, repressed or ignored. Goblin Baby has a particular interest in working with new and contemporary writing, as well as conceiving and developing original projects and performances. Our aim is to create thought-provoking productions that have the potential to raise social awareness as well as to expose, question and re-imagine the world and society we live in. |
The world is full of women with no voice of their own or no one to speak on their behalf. It is good that Goblin Baby Theatre in its own way highlights their plight in an entertaining, but provoking fashion. ★★★★ - Female Arts
Production HistoryGoblin Baby's birth project was a V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues in March 2013 at the Rose Lippmann Building (London). Following this, our next project, UNHEARD - A New Writing Festival exploring themes around sexual abuse and violence, premièred in June 2013 at The Space (London).
We then kicked off January 2014 with RETOLD - A Fairytale Festival... without the 'happily ever after' which featured three new, darkly-comic and socio-critical takes on three traditional fairytales. It was performed at The Space (London) for one week before transferring to The Hen & Chickens Theatre (London) for another one week run at the end of January. Goblin Baby Theatre Co. seems to have a knack for finding ways to address at times challenging or unusual topics through theatre. ★★★★ - Remotegoat |
UNHEARD Festival 2013 © Ainhoa Barriola
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The Snow White Complex at RETOLD © Eliza Power
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In March 2014 we joined V-Day's One Billion Rising for Justice campaign, to raise awareness for and end violence against women and girls, and took part with a sold-out benefit performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at The Space (London).
In June & July 2014 we presented our first full Off-Westend run of a full length play, The Devil & Stepashka by our associate writer Claire Booker, which explores the question if there can be true justice in an unjust society. The production ran at The Space for two weeks before transferring to Ye Olde Rose & Crown (London). The superstitiously secular, domestic world of Claire Booker’s The Devil and Stepashka manages to create a believable male Antigone in what ends up to be very literally one hell of a double-bind. ★★★★ - Exeunt Magazine |
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In August 2014 we presented FORESEEN - A Future Festival, which was performed at The Hen & Chickens Theatre (London) as part of the Camden Fringe and featured four post-apocalyptic and topical new short plays.
In October 2014 we returned to The Hen & Chickens Theatre (London) once more with a free adaptation of Anton Chekhov's one act farce The Proposal as a same-sex marriage comedy, in a double-bill with a new play about equal marriage by our associate writer Tilly Lunken called To Be a Wife. In February 2015 we presented a second and much extended instalment of the UNHEARD Festival, exploring themes around sexual abuse and violence, in combination with V-Day benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London). The festival featured twelve events, over a period of four days, the majority of which sold-out. |
The Devil & Stepashka © Goblin Baby Co. / Leigh-Anne Abela
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CinderElla - And Her Smelly Old Slipper © Goblin Baby Co.
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Needless to say, we think this is an important project as it opens up honest discussions about sexual abuse and violence, lets people tell their stories, and brings attention to a subject that is still rife with taboo. - SheraMag on the UNHEARD Festival 2015 In August 2015 we return to The Bread & Roses Theatre (London) with our first family theatre show, recommended for ages five and above. CinderElla - And Her Smelly Old Slipper was written by our artistic director Tessa Hart and is a fun, exciting and modern retelling of the classic fairytale in which a girl's ultimate dream doesn't necessarily need to be to marry some Prince.
From November 2015 to February 2016 we took The Princess Monologues on a little London tour, heading back to The Space, The Hen & Chickens Theatre and The Bread & Roses Theatre, as well as performing at Theatre N16 for the first time. The show explores the concept of what it means to be a 'princess' in the 21st century through seven 10-minute-monologues each by a different writer. |
'made me laugh and cry and taught me some new things. (...) A must-see for everyone!' ★★★★★ - RemoteGoat
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In December 2015, in the lead-up to Christmas, we presented our second family theatre show at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London), (S̶) Elfish Christmas, again written by Tessa Hart, it tells the story of a little Elf that has to save Christmas.
We kicked off 2016 in by producing the One Billion Rising Festival, an eight-day creative campaign raising awareness for and demanding an end to violence against women, featuring performances, workshops, talks and an exhibition, in February 2016 at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London). Later in the year we presented Alone Inside the Box in July 2016, a collection of monologues presenting boxed up tales about our messed up world, also at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London). In February 2017 we produced a new V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues as well as new writing night Where do we go from here?, featuring reactions to Brexit and Trump, one again at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London). In December 2017 we also acted as Associate Producer for the newly developed V&T family theatre show Fran and the Littlest Reindeer, which was performed at the Rosemary Branch Theatre and The Bread & Roses Theatre (both London). |
One Billion Rising Festival © Sonia Sanchez Lopez
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Schwarze Zukunft © Goblin Baby Co.
In February 2018 we produced our 6th V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues, for the second time also alongside a V-Day benefit production of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer, once more at The Bread & Roses Theatre (London).
In February 2019 we staged our first German-language theatre show, a V-Day benefit production of Die Vagina-Monologe at Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer in Berlin, with this also being our 7th (and so far final) yearly production of The Vagina Monologues.
In March 2020 we returned with another V-Day production in Berlin, this time a German and English language Raise the Vibration performance in collaboration with the collective kaboom at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek. This event was part of a special opening celebration of the famous library's theme room on "emancipation" but ended up being the last event staged there before the eventual Covid-19 lockdown.
In February 2019 we staged our first German-language theatre show, a V-Day benefit production of Die Vagina-Monologe at Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer in Berlin, with this also being our 7th (and so far final) yearly production of The Vagina Monologues.
In March 2020 we returned with another V-Day production in Berlin, this time a German and English language Raise the Vibration performance in collaboration with the collective kaboom at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek. This event was part of a special opening celebration of the famous library's theme room on "emancipation" but ended up being the last event staged there before the eventual Covid-19 lockdown.
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In December 2022 we then finally presented a new project in Berlin, entitled Schwarze Zukunft - eine afrofuristische Märchenstunde (Black Future - an afrofuturistic fairy tale story time) at Theater Expedition Metropolis, which subsequently was invited and transferred to zwinger x - Theater & Orchester Heidelberg in February 2023 for Black History Month.
In March 2023, we presented a performative exploration into the worlds of neurodiversity with A.U.T.I.S.M. - Artistically Ultimately Tangibly Intensely Shamelessly Myself at Vierte Welt in Berlin. Most recently we brought Schwarze Magie - eine afro(sur)realistische Poesie-Performance (Black Magic - an afro(sur)realistic poetry performance) to the Theater Expedition Metropolis once again. Schwarze Magie is both a new stand-alone production and at the same time a companion piece to our 2022 production Schwarze Zukunft, furthermore also part of a planned trilogy that will/should/could/would/should bring all parts together. |
Schwarze Magie © Goblin Baby Co.
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