Peripeteia Theatre turned 5 years old in October of 2025! While this might be a small number to some it's a HUGE achievement to us!

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We celebrated this achievement by re-delving back into the subconscious mind and re-staging our first ever full-length production - The Dreams! 

Performed on Friday 15th of August at the King’s Arms in Salford, just before Manchester Pride. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2025 was the third year of our annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

Mac’s cosy northern-town life is upturned by a visit from an old flame who’s been absent for twenty years. The revelation to his two daughters of his hidden, gay son blows everything apart.

SLAM was a scratch night event where actors and creatives were invited to come together to share monologues, duologues, and short scenes. This was original or published work.

 

In this prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves.

Based on the original play by Jean Cocteau, this new version of the text was adapted by our Artistic Director, Adam Cachia. The play explores our need for human connection.

​In the anticipation of Manchester Pride 2024 we launched a new online series called ‘Raise Your Voice’ where this time around, we have asked actors to record queer focused monologues.

‘Raise Your Voice’ is an online series where we ask writers for monologues that are then recorded and performed by actors. Each ‘burst’ of ‘Raise Your Voice’ focuses on a different theme.

The Grill (Jokes About Ovens) was a fast-paced comedy about two chefs in a death row kitchen

A workers strike leaves two chefs alone in the death row kitchen of a maximum-security prison. Under pressure, and the stern supervision of the prison Guard, Tom and Wally are in a race against time to execute a culinary masterclass that will satisfy the most dangerous man in Britain on his final night on Earth.

Performed on Friday 21st of June at the King’s Arms in Salford, during Pride Month. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2024 was the second year of our annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

Pandæmonium was our fourth free immersive audio experience. Following on from the successes of past audio productions including Dreams (2020), Mum Can You Hear Me? (2021) and WMN (2021). We were delighted to bring another one to life in this short audio anthology series.

The Departure was a concept created by Artistic Director, Adam Cachia, and Associate Director, Jessica Rose Renshall, to provide a platform to share short plays over the course of a three nights. The plays would range in theme and would also be a platform to connect emerging talent and established ones - this was seen across the board from writers to director to actors!

Performed on Sunday the 25th of June at the King’s Arms in Salford, during Pride Month. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2023 is the start of an annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

All good conversations start in nightclub smoking areas.

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On a quiet, mid-week night out, two strangers, Sam and Tyler, meet in a smoking area of a gay bar. What starts off as a short conversation soon unravels into a tale of twisted truths and outrageous lies. The pair soon clash and the night gets darker; neither of their lives will be the same after this encounter. 

Protest. Poetry. Peace and Song is an event which we twice in 2023.

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On the event's night we invite female identifying artists to use their words and songs of protest, peace and healing in solidarity with women, for women from all corners of the world.

Mirror Mirror was 2022's free and online project. Through the use of extended monologues Mirror Mirror explored the change in relations we have with fairy tales and fables now that we are older, wiser and understand their true meaning. Some of the work flipped the tale completely on its head whilst others will be explored the aftermath of certain events or re-imaging the whole thing altogether.

What does being twenty bring?

For Pete Clapton, his teenage years were as free from worry as they should be. For his whole life, he’s lived in the same city, same apartment. Ever since his parents passed away, it’s been just him and his Aunt Holly, on whom the family legacy lies, a confident role model for Pete and a big partier and traveller in her day.

Family Tree was a production inspired by Duncan Macmillian's Lungs. It was a witty two-hander about a couple planning on having a child but are re-evaluating their living circumstance. The world the character finds themselves living in was a total disaster - there was political unrest, the fear of war breaking out and to top it all off the ice caps are melting. It begs the question, is having a child really the right decision to make, given the current climate of the world?

If an object had consciousness, what would its thoughts be? What experience of the world would it have? And how would human beings look like from its perspective?

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'Sandy' was a play that explored the unique place between reality and fantasy in which two similar and yet very different 'women' were able to meet, think, talk and

be themselves.

WMN was our second free immersive audio experience. This project explored what it means to be a woman in the modern world. Split over three nights, each night focused on a specific element such as body image, emotions and motherhood.

A Man is in quest of the vanished meaning of his life. The Waiter is there to entertain him. Will that be pleasurable enough for Man? Or would Man be able to recognise what he misses from life? The need of others. Or would he suffer in the vast endlessness?

Maria, Alex, Joshua and Samantha. Four people. Four strangers. They meet in a dark room to discover something, to get better, to speak... Because while in the darkness we wear no masks.

Mum Can You Hear Me? Was a four-act audio drama, inspired by the Essex lorry deaths of 2019. The piece itself invited the audience into the subconscious mind of a young dying woman as she struggles to say goodbye to a world and person she can no longer see.

2020 is a year many of us will not forget anytime soon and for many different reasons. The global Covid-19 pandemic has been a significant event across the globe. But the pandemic isn't the only important event that has happened this year - BLM protest, the US Elections, the awareness towards government oppression are examples of just some of the events also have occurred this year.

Inspired by the work of both Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange, our version of The Dreams incorporated a redesigned soundscape and a newly written text to create an immersive audio experience in which the listener truly imagines what it means to be conscious whilst dreaming.

Monologue Mondays was used as the launch project of our Theatre Company to the world. Launching in 2020 meant that we could not gain access to a theatre space due to the industry being temporary shutdown because of Covid-19 pandemic. This did not stop us. Instead of seeing this as a negative we viewed it as an opportunity to showcase our work to a larger online audience, completely free. In total we created nine monologues which were a mixture of newly written work by our resident writers and classical texts that we staged in a contemporary way.