DDF 2025 will be a week long celebration of new student writing from February 16th to February 23rd.

Join Durham Student Theatre for the 50th Anniversary of the Durham Drama Festival. Featuring nine new plays across three venues, explore the wealth of emerging talent at the UK's largest and most prolific student theatre scene.

More details to follow.

£7 Standard

£6.50 Concessions

£6 Durham Student Theatre Members

This production takes place at the Mount Oswald Hub, Durham, DH1 3FP.

The performance takes place at 7pm (or at 2.30pm on a  Saturday). Front doors open 30 minutes before the show starts.

This programme is made up of three 50-minute plays with a short interval between each.

DDF 2025 will be a week long celebration of new student writing from February 16th to February 23rd.

Join Durham Student Theatre for the 50th Anniversary of the Durham Drama Festival. Featuring nine new plays across three venues, explore the wealth of emerging talent at the UK's largest and most prolific student theatre scene.

More details to follow.

£7 Standard

£6.50 Concessions

£6 Durham Student Theatre Members

This production takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

The performance takes place at 7pm (or at 2.30pm on Saturday). Front doors open 30 minutes before the show starts.

This programme is made up of three 50-minute plays with a short interval between each.

DDF 2025 will be a week long celebration of new student writing from February 16th to February 23rd.

Join Durham Student Theatre for the 50th Anniversary of the Durham Drama Festival. Featuring nine new plays across three venues, explore the wealth of emerging talent at the UK's largest and most prolific student theatre scene.

More details to follow.

£7 Standard

£6.50 Concessions

£6 Durham Student Theatre Members

This production takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

The performance takes place at 7pm (or at 2.30pm on Saturday). Front doors open 30 minutes before the show starts.

This programme is made up of three 50-minute plays with a short interval between each.

A soulful drama about a young couple, Matt and Jen, coming to terms with their relationship, as one of them has to move across the country for work.

Matt and Jen have come home from work to their Edinburgh flat and are going about their evening as usual. Except there is an elephant in the room. Matt has a new job. And it’s in London. As much as they don’t particularly want to face it, the discussion of how it will affect their relationship is inevitably imminent.  

£4 Standard

£3.50 Concession

This performance will take place at the Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College, Elvet Hill Road, DH1 3LN.

This performance will begin at 7pm and last until 8.15pm. There is no interval.

Get ready for one of the biggest events in the Durham Student Theatre calendar - DST Events is proud to present The D'Oliviers 2025!

Come and join us for a night of friends, fun, and awards as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Durham Drama Festival! This annual event will take place at the end of Week 6, and is a chance to celebrate all those involved with DDF this year, alongside everyone else in the DST community. Expect a drinks reception, entertainment, live music, awards, and much more!

Dress Code: Black Tie

PLEASE NOTE: Involvement in the Durham Drama Festival is not at all required for attendance; everyone from all corners of Durham Student Theatre is encouraged to attend!

Tickets £10

This event is taking place in Hatfield College Dining Room, Hatfield College, North Bailey.

This event will begin at 8pm and run until 10.30pm.

Durham Opera Ensemble presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, a witty and whimsical operetta combining political satire with fairy magic, great music, and unforgettable characters.

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe, presented by Durham Opera Ensemble, is a sparkling blend of political satire, romance, and fairy magic. Strephon, a half-fairy shepherd, loves Phyllis, a Ward of Court sought in marriage by the entire House of Lords. When a misunderstanding involving Strephon’s fairy mother, Iolanthe, causes Phyllis to renounce him, chaos ensues. The fairies retaliate by sending Strephon to Parliament, where their magic turns the British political system upside down.

With whimsical fairies, lovesick politicians, and sharp satire on privilege and power, plus a fantastic score, Iolanthe is a must-see!

£12.50 Standard

£9.50 Concession

£7.50 Durham Student Theatre Member

This production takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham, DH1 3ET.

Performances begin at 2.30 or 7.30pm and last approximately 160 minutes with a 15 minute interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Set in the Southern multicultural haven of New Orleans, Tennessee Williams' era defining commentary on the divided cultural American psyche, tackling the complexities of love, power, and class.

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and understood as one 20th century's greatest plays, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is not to be missed. Tennessee Williams explores the lives of Stella and Stanley Kowalski in their shabby apartment in Elysium Fields, set in the Southern multicultural haven of New Orleans. In a commentary on the divided cultural American psyche, their world is brought to a head by the arrival of Blanche DuBois.

Content Warnings: Physical and sexual violence / rape / racism

£7.50 Standard

£7 Concessions

£6.50 Durham Student Theatre Members

This production is taking place at the Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College, South Road, DH1 3LT.

This performance will start at 7.30pm and run for 150 minutes with a 15 minute interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start time.