FHTC is excited to announce ‘Myths and Legends: The Intercollegiate Showcase’!

The intercollegiate showcase is back for its second year, raising money for Children of the North East. This year with the enchanting theme of myths and legends, each college theatre company displays its niche while celebrating a shared love of theatre. From Camelot to Hadestown, this showcase has it all, perfect for everyone.

The showcase celebrates college theatre and creates an accessible opportunity for performers and crew members to work in the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre.

£5 Standard

£4.50 Concession

£4.50 Durham Student Theatre Members

This event takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 N Bailey, DH1 3ET.

Doors will open at 7pm for a performance start time of 7.30pm. The show will last approximately 2 hours, with a 15 minute interval.

DUCT's Classical Acting Showcase is back for 2024!

Come along to see some of Durham's hottest classical acting talent take on a variety of classical monologues and duologues in a lighthearted competition for one night only!

Warnings: Death / Suicide

£7.50 Standard

£7 Concession

£6.50 Durham Student Theatre

This event is taking place at the Birley Room, Hatfield, North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RQ.

The perofrmance will start at 7:30pm and last until approximately 9:30pm. Doors will open half an hour before performances begin.

FOURTH WALL Theatre Company presents its Michaelmas Term show Sex Cells by Anna Longaretti.

In a busy call centre, the four female employees of Aphrodite, a sex toy manufacturer, take telephone orders for Teasey Maids, Titivators and rotating pearl g-strings. Sex Cells is a very funny, poignant play about motherhood, friendship, love and loss.

Fourthwall theatre company presents Sex Cells by Anna Longaretti, a new and provacative show following the lives of four women and their boss.

A dramatic comedy about motherhood considering longing, birth, death, love, relationships, despair and fear of intimacy. Focused in a call centre, four female employees of Mr Causeway, the boss in the busy sex toy manufacturer, take telephone orders for sex toys. Teasey Maids, Titivators and rotating pearl g-strings - they have it all!

Performing for one night only in Holy GrAle on the 26th November.

Content Warning: Discussions of abortion

£6 Standard

£5 Concession / Durham Student Theatre Members

This production takes place at the Holy GrAle, 57 Crossgate, St Margarets Garth, Durham DH1 4PR.

The performance will start at 7.30pm, and doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

This adaptation of 1984 reimagines Winston Smith's reconstruction, where he is forced to re-enact key moments of his life and his 'thoughtcrimes' with the help of others convicted.

The show reimagines sex and romantic relationships through a dystopian lens, using the relationship between Julia and Winston as its focal point (especially in act one). The script uses a lot of Orwell's original dialogue and so in many ways remains true to the novel, whilst incorporating this new metatheatrical twist.

£7 Standard    

£6 Concession

£5.50 Durham Student Theatre Members

This event takes place at Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre

Doors will open at 7pm, the Performance will start at 7.30pm and will last about 130 minutes, including a 15-minute interval

Content Warnings: Haze, Strobe Lighting, Suicide, Death, Torture, Violence, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Political Oppression, Surveillance

Sondheim's cult classic 'Merrily We Roll Along' traces the life of wealthy, jaded composer Franklin Shepard and his two estranged friends through each milestone of their lives – in reverse!

Woodplayers are delighted to present our Michaelmas musical, ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ by the legendary Stephen Sondheim.

'Merrily We Roll Along' begins in 1976 and moves backwards, tracing the rise to stardom of successful yet cynical composer Franklin Shepard, alongside his two estranged friends. The musical follows each milestone of their personal and professional lives in reverse, ending with a touch of rueful irony, as the friends at the start of their careers face a bright future: young, talented and enthusiastic about the world waiting to be conquered. A revered musical classic, this production is not to be missed...

Content Warnings: Alcoholism / violence

£8 Standard

£7 Concession

£6.50 Durham Student Theatre Members

This production takes place at the Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College, Durham DH1 3LT.

Performances begin at 7:30pm (2.30pm for the matinee), and the doors will open 30 minutes before the performance. The show will last 150 minutes including a 15 minute interval.