We are thrilled to be presenting V-Day benefit performances again this year at the Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham.

20 & 21 February: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer
A collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even a put-down.

22-24 February: The Vagina Monologues
For 20 years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public!

Tickets are selling fast, so make sure to book asap to avoid disappointment.

Goblin Baby Theatre Co. presents the
 
One Billion Rising Festival
 
7th to 14th February 2016
 
at The Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham
68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ London
 
An eight-day creative campaign raising awareness for
and demanding an end to violence against women!
 
According to UN statistics 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime; that is more than One Billion Women!
 
This year Goblin Baby Theatre Co. joins One Billion Rising - the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history - with an eight day creative campaign ​featuring Performances (The Vagina Monologues, Comedy, Poetry, Burlesque, The Princess Monologues & New Writing), Workshops (Drumming, Body Confidence & Photography), Talks and an Exhibition!
 
Creatives and campaigners involved include festival producer Tessa Hart (Artistic Director of the Bread & Roses Theatre & Goblin Baby Theatre Co.) and assistant producer Alisa James (performer, director & cabaret producer) as well as Jo King (founder of the London Academy of Burlesque), Claire Booker (internationally produced playwright and poet), Tom Morley (co-founder of Instant Teamwork & original drummer of Scritti Politti), Miss Glory Pearl (The Naked Stand Up), Alice Frick (comedian & Funny Women Finalist 2012), Sonia Sanchez Lopez (photographer & women and gender analyst), Pavan Amara (founder of My Body Back Clinic) and many more!
 
The OBR Festival is set to reach out to and engage people on many different levels by offering a diverse line-up of events and creative activities. It runs at The Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham in the lead-up to the international OBR- and V-Day on February 14th. Several events take place each day and ticket prices range from Free to £15 with discounts available for multiple bookings.
 
LISTEN! ACT! RISE!
 
"The rising of the women means the rising of the race." - James Oppenheim (Bread & Roses poem)
  
7th to 14th February 2016
at The Bread & Roses Theatre, 68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ Clapham, London
Full details at: www.obrfestival.uk
Tickets FREE to £15, with a 20% discount available when booking for several events

2016 is here and our Winter Season is ready to kick off!

First up we have The Princess Monologues transferring to The Hen & Chickens Theatre and returning to The Bread & Roses Theatre! After rave reviews for its previous run in November and December 2015, the production is returning for two performances this season:

• Friday 22nd Jan at The Hen & Chickens Theatre
• Friday 12th Feb at The Bread & Roses Theatre

Next we are producing the first One Billion Rising (OBR) Festival at The Bread & Roses Theatre from 7th to 14th February. With the OBR Festival, we join the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history, with an eight day creative campaign, ​featuring performances, workshops, talks and exhibitions.

Performances include Eve Ensler's award-winning The Vagina Monologues, comedy, burlesque, poetry and new writing, whilst workshops include Drumming with Tom Morley and Body Confidence with Jo King.

​More details on all events are available at www.obrfestival.uk.

We are excited to have confirmed a further couple of team members for our first children's theatre production CinderElla - And Her Smelly Old Slipper: Su Gilroy will be directing whilst Alisa James will be the production's designer and stage manager.

Su has been involved in many forms of theatre, from TIE and community theatre through provincial and touring theatre to West End,  and in many types of performance, from devised work through pantomime and rep to classics. She has directed over 20 productions in weekly rep, two plays on the London fringe, two plays for the Brighton Festival and two school tours. She has worked extensively with young people and has directed many youth productions. Su has an MA in Theatre and Performance Studies and is delighted to be working with Goblin Baby Theatre Company. And we are delighted that she will bring her experience and expertise to CinderElla!

Alisa is a designer, actor and director. She holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre Design for Performance from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Design credits include Don Giovanni, The Maids, Oedipus Rex, The Tempest, and Macbeth. She has previously worked with Goblin Baby as an actress on The Vagina Monologues and also supported the UNHEARD Festival backstage so we are thrilled that she will now bring her design skills to our next production!

Click here to find out more about the production, the team and how to book tickets.

We kicked off the year straight away in January with RETOLD - A Fairytale Festival... without the happily ever after, which ran for a week each at The Space as well as The Hen & Chickens Theatre and following which we were invited to become a resident company at the latter.

We then returned The Space twice in a row. First with a sell-out one-night-only benefit production of The Vagina Monologues in March, followed by our first full Off-Westend run of a full-length play The Devil & Stepashka in June, which transferred to Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre in July.

We then returned to The Hen & Chickens Theatre with two more productions. In August, as part of the Camden Fringe, we presented FORESEEN - Four post-apocalyptic new short plays and we ended our 2014 season at the venue with The Proposal / To Be a Wife - Two same-sex marriage comedies in October.

So after 5 successful productions this year, our 2014 production season is now over. But do not fear we've got lots of exciting things in planning for 2015, and a little preview will already be shown in a rehearsed reading this December. So stay tuned for further details to be announced shortly!

We are delighted to announce that Christopher Keech is joining us as the Production Designer of The Devil & Stepashka, which will be presented for a three-week-run in June 2014!

Christopher is a London based Cross Platform Artist.  His work fuses together a wide range of techniques and past experiences. Having graduated from The University of Huddersfield in 2011 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Technical Theatre, Christopher then went onto complete a MA by Research Degree, through practical and theoretical research into the application of Kinetic Screens (projection onto moving resources). Although his background is within a technical based arts environment, his interest and passion lays within design and visual arts. 

Whilst she has already been attached to the project for a while, we would also like to formally announce and introduce Leigh-Anne Abela who is joining us as the Director of The Devil & Stepashka.

Leigh-Anne  trained in Acting & Contemporary Theatre at East 15 Acting School & Performance Arts at Trinity College London. Leigh-Anne's recent theatrical credits, as a director, deviser and as a performer, include the French play, starring Juliette Binoche, 'Mademoiselle Julie,'which was performed at the Barbican Theatre, Sibling Production's 'Short Cuts' at The Hen & Chicken's  Theatre Bar, and National Youth Theatre's 'Playing Up: Double Bill' at the Unicorn Theatre. Leigh-Anne already appeared performing with the Goblin Babies in March 2014 at The Vagina Monologues.

Our one-night-only benefit performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues last night was a big success and sell-out!

Many thanks to everyone who came, our fabulous cast and crew as well as The Space for having us once more.

The night also raised a lot of money for the charities Tender, Refuge as well as the V-Day Spotlight Campaign.

Also many thanks to photographer Nathan Edwards for capturing us so beautifully; check out the gallery for more!

Despite being on for one-night-only, our benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues as part of V-Day 2014 and One Billion Rising for Justice has received a lot of features and exposure on web publications.

Most notably the Londonist has included us in their Things To Do In London This Weekend and About Time Magazine listed our production as part of March's Most Peculiar Theatre. Here's what they had to say about it:

The Vagina  Monologues will be performed on Sunday, 16th March at The Space.
Tickets are selling quickly, so make sure to book asap.

We'd like to wish everyone a very happy International Women's Day!

A brilliant way to celebrate would be to treat yourself to some tickets for our upcoming performance of The Vagina Monologues on Sunday, March 16th.

With one-night-only and all profits going to charity tickets are selling quickly, so book asap.