Join us for an afternoon of music, drinks, food and entertainment, to celebrate the achievements of DST!

D’Oscars is a celebration of Durham Student Theatre, applauding the hard work that has gone into creating theatre in this unconventional year, from live shows to radio plays. The event will feature entertainment from bands to a dance troupe, local food trucks, and of course, the presenting of the D'Oscar awards themselves. The event is open to any current DST members as well as any interested alumni.

This Event is held at the Tent on the Racecourse, our brand new performing arts venue which will be running a variety of events across June. This is a covid-safe event, with marshalls in place to ensure you can enjoy the entertainment in safety!

Ticket Prices: £18 Standard, £15 DST Members, available online until midnight on June 21st  

Please note that due to special requirements relating to social distancing the ticket link below is inactive - Instead you can purchase tickets Here

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.

DULOG is proud to present our production of The Last Five Years, the internationally acclaimed musical by Jason Robert Brown. The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy telling her story backwards, at the end of their marriage, while Jamie tells his story chronologically, when they first fall in love. There is therefore no mystery about what happened – the real question is about why.

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre

A factory above, a factory below. Two worlds, existing side by side - until someone crosses the boundary.

MJ is a human who is sick of moving boxes around all day like a robot. Pins is a robot who doesn’t fit into the underground. When they meet in the space between their worlds, they form a friendship that blurs the boundaries of human and machine. Are we becoming machines? Are machines becoming too much like us? Is there another possibility? Foundations is a play about technology, love, and bad dancing, told through physical theatre and puppetry.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 20th at 7:30pm until midnight on June 26th.

A court of all-female leads. Three male witches who look more like traders and journalists than hags on a moor. How much can we trust what we’re told to believe?

‘Treasons capital, confessed and proved.’ ‘Macbeth’ is a play about what happens offstage. This filmed adaptation asks us to examine how much we can trust what is being reported when we are kept at an arm’s length from the real action. Words fail to describe the unnameable as the cycle of violence repeats before our very eyes. It is hard to believe that you have all the power when everyone is lying to you.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 21st at 7:30pm until midnight on June 27th.

A play of 400 letters, spanning three decades and tracking the complex and beautiful relationship of America's beloved poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

“Asking you is the ‘might have been’ for me, the one towering change, the other life that might have been had. But I am sure it is the will of the heavens that all is as it is.” Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. Throughout their lifetime, they wrote over 400 letters to eachother, spanning decades, continents, political eras and tumultuous periods in their own lives. Their connection was messy and profound, platonic yet romantic: a love that resists easy definition. These are their words, compiled and compressed by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl.

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre

A comic operetta, following the fortunes of Frederic, a young pirate, as he comes to the end of his apprenticeship and falls in love, but is he really as free as he thinks?

It is assumed he will marry his ex-nursemaid, but he meets Mabel, who agrees to marry him so that he can enter polite society. When the Pirates force Mabel and her sisters into marrying them, they are saved by the trickery of their father. A mix-up with Frederic's birthday forces him to give up Mabel, to complete 63 years more service. A group of policemen ponder the difficulties of capturing the Pirates. Battle ensues, before a shock revelation leads to peace, happiness, and a wedding for good measure!

This Event is held at the Tent on the Racecourse, our brand new performing arts venue which will be running a variety of events across June. This is a covid-safe event, with marshalls in place to ensure you can enjoy the entertainment in safety!

Ticket Prices: £8 Standard, £6 Concession, £5 DST available online until midnight on June 23rdt  

Please note that due to special requirements relating to social distancing the ticket link below is inactive - Instead you can purchase tickets Here

DUCT presents a night of classical theatre, with ‘The Lovers’, a dark adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, followed by a modern adaptation of ‘Everyman’, the Medieval morality play.

DUCT presents a double-bill of student-written adaptations of classical plays! ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a magical romp through a forest. ‘The Lovers’ asks whether it is quite so comedic when the trappings of fairies and mechanicals fall away, leaving us with a broken man begging us for answers. We must face the fact that we can give him none. ‘Everyman’ both isolates us and brings us together as we follow one man's journey to the afterlife. Filled with more questions than answers, we confront our own mortality in Everyman's journey to discover what it is that makes us human.

TW // Sexism // Implied threat of sexual assault // Descriptions of violence // strobe lighting

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 13th at 6:00pm until midnight on June 27th.

Ella Hickson's Eight is a dark, touching, and often funny portrayal of life in an age of excess: excess sex, excess commercialism, excess freedom (filmed under approved COVID exemptions).

Astrid is cheating on her boyfriend. Danny talks to dead people. Andre's partner just killed himself. Bobby is struggling to make ends meet. This state of the nation portrait questions who we have become in a world with with an abundance of everything except for self belief, and a little bit of faith.

TW // Suicide reference // Suicide description // Description of terrorist attack // Sexual content // Swearing // Homophobic language // Racism // Flashing Lights // Sexist language

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance.

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 25th at 7:00pm until midnight on June 28th.

A comic operetta, following the fortunes of Frederic, a young pirate, as he comes to the end of his apprenticeship and falls in love, but is he really as free as he thinks?

It is assumed he will marry his ex-nursemaid, but he meets Mabel, who agrees to marry him so that he can enter polite society. When the Pirates force Mabel and her sisters into marrying them, they are saved by the trickery of their father. A mix-up with Frederic's birthday forces him to give up Mabel, to complete 63 years more service. A group of policemen ponder the difficulties of capturing the Pirates. Battle ensues, before a shock revelation leads to peace, happiness, and a wedding for good measure!

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre

War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! 1984 is a dystopian tale based around Winston Smith, an unimportant member of the oppressive party 'Ingsoc'.

This show takes place in Winston’s cell in the ‘Ministry of Truth’, and centres around his interrogation by O’Brien, on suspicion of ‘Thought Crime’ against the Party and Big Brother. The ensemble is on stage for the entirety of the show and tell Winston’s story through a series of re-enactments. All ensemble roles are multi-rolled and strong, versatile actors have been cast to bring this production to life.

TW // Strobe // Torture // Language (age 15)

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance.

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 27th at 7:30pm until midnight on July 4th.

Join a cast of talented performers on a musical tour through time!

Tone Deaf Theatre Company is delighted to present this year's Easter Showcase: Musicals Through The Ages. From Ancient Greece to the Jazz Age, and from the Renaissance to post-apocalyptic futures, enjoy a talented cast performing a wide variety of musical theatre numbers from all eras.

TW //  References to the 9/11 terrorist attacks

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 28th at 7:30pm until midnight on July 5th.

The restless souls of award winning sketch comedy troupe, The Durham Revue are back from the dead with some Unfinished Business to attend to...

New year. New troupe. 100% new material.

Join the recently departed sketch comedy group, The Durham Revue, as they perform the show of their lives/deaths.

From the group that brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Jeremy Vine, and many more, this is an hour of cutting-edge student comedy not to be missed.

‘Durham...had the crowd screaming for more’ ★★★★★ - Intermission Bristol

‘High energy and excellent performance talent’ ★★★★ - National Student

‘Outrageous, energetic and intensely funny… I could have watched at least another hour’ ★★★★ - EdFringeReview

TW // flashing lights

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre

A brand-new, student-written musical focusing on the infamous love triangle between Elizabeth I, her cousin Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley.

As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth knows how much love can go wrong, but when she is seduced by courtier Dudley, History asks her one question: how far must a woman go to win at a man's game? Written by Will Geraint Drake and Lauren Brewer, 'The Single Lady' offers a glimpse into the sacrifice and personal cost to be a female leader in a man's world. Perhaps the “Virgin Queen” really isn’t all she seems in the history books...

This show is Streamed Live from the Assembly Rooms Theatre

A brand-new, student-written musical focusing on the infamous love triangle between Elizabeth I, her cousin Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley.

As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth knows how much love can go wrong, but when she is seduced by courtier Dudley, History asks her one question: how far must a woman go to win at a man's game? Written by Will Geraint Drake and Lauren Brewer, 'The Single Lady' offers a glimpse into the sacrifice and personal cost to be a female leader in a man's world. Perhaps the “Virgin Queen” really isn’t all she seems in the history books...

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre