Theatre Re, one of the UK’s leading theatre groups, has announced a captivating new season for
2025, featuring critically acclaimed shows which will return to delight audiences. Well
established across the globe for creating strikingly poignant and thought-provoking
performances, Theatre Re’s shows explore fragile human experiences through compelling
physical theatre.
Showcasing movement, visual theatre & original live music, Theatre Re are renowned for their
delicate depiction of human emotion. For each show, the company forges intimate
collaborations with experts in different fields – such as science, philosophy and public
health – as well as community groups, who play a crucial part throughout the devising process
and development of their work. For this year, they are partnering with National Institute for
Health and Care Research (NIHR) for the run of The Nature of Forgetting.
Coming to Poole this March is Theatre Re’s newest endeavour Moments, running as a double
with their previous show BIRTH. Moments starts off as a reflection on the company’s past 14
years together. What emerges is a piece about the key mid-life experience of losing a parent,
while also becoming and being a parent to the next generation.
BIRTH, Theatre Re’s sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2019 hit, is a poignant visual piece of theatre that
deals with the under-represented experience of pregnancy loss. BIRTH delves into the bond
between three women from the same family, their shared loss and their unconditional love, as
well as the strength they discover in each other. After the double-bill with Moments in Poole,
BIRTH will be performed on its own in Nottingham and Chester.
After more than 200 performances in sold-out venues across the globe, Theatre Re’s explosive,
powerful and joyous piece The Nature of Forgetting will tour to Winchester this March. Teaming
up with The National Institute for Health and Care Research for its 2025 run, The Nature of
Forgetting was inspired by neurobiological research, interviews with people living with
dementia and the work of theatre director Tadeusz Kantor. The Nature of Forgetting is a moving
and hauntingly beautiful piece about the inability to recollect and what remains when memory
fades.
Coming to Sheffield this June is Theatre Re’s visually striking and folktale-inspired production
Bluebelle. This non-verbal production weaves together plots from distinguished writers Angela
Carter, Italo Calvino, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault alongside interviews conducted with
parents and carers. The result is a new folk story that offers a new perspective on what it means
to be a parent. Developed alongside Visual Vernacular and d/Deaf Artists, Bluebelle is accessible
to d/Deaf audiences without the need for BSL interpretation.
Moments and BIRTH
BIRTH
Tuesday 11th March 2025
The Lighthouse, POOLE
https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/event/moments
birth/
Monday 17th March 2025
Nottingham Playhouse, NOTTINGHAM
https://nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/birth/
Tuesday 13th May – Wednesday 14th May
The Storyhouse, CHESTER
https://www.storyhouse.com/whats-on/theatre-re
presents-birth/
The Nature of Forgetting
Wednesday 26th March – Thursday 27th March
Theatre Royal, WINCHESTER
https://www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk/whats
on/nature-forgetting
Bluebelle
Wednesday 11th June – Thursday 12th June
The Crucible, SHEFFIELD
https://www.theatrere.co.uk/diary.html