theatre

Birdcatcher

On tour at 2 venues in 2 towns · 4 performances from Thu 22 Oct to Sat 27 Feb.

Birdcatcher is a darkly comic drama about a teenage girl navigating life inside a doomsday cult. Set in East Yorkshire, the play shines a light on the murky, repressive underworld of religious ‘high control groups’ in the UK – and asks how you find yourself in a world you think is about to end. Pentabus is the Nation’s Rural Theatre. This new play is directed by BAFTA-winning Artistic Director Elle While (Mother Courage, Richard III Shakespeare’s Globe) and written by rising star and award-winning playwright Laura Waldren, whose first play Some Demon won the 2023 Papatango Prize.