PRIDE & PREJUDICE
FEBRUARY 13th - 21st
Set among the landed gentry in the south of England, Pride & Prejudice explores contemporary anxiety around courtship, reputation and social expectations for women. The story centers on the Bennet family, whose unmarried daughters are not in line to inherit their family estate and must therefore marry to secure their livelihoods. The heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, champions the importance of marrying for mutual love and respect, rather than for wealth or status, although in the end she manages to achieve both in her own marriage to Mr Darcy.
This production designed to innovate on traditional practice through adaptation, access and stylistic form. Seven actors will rotate roles within each performance, every actor playing almost every character. The aim is to produce a faithful adaptation of the original text while maintaining a small cast allowing fresh takes on enduring characters and archetypes. This production offers actors an opportunity to stretch themselves in their abilities and work in unique ways with their fellow performers and offers audiences a unique experience that couples modern creative practices with traditional stories and characters.
FEBRUARY 13th - 21st
Set among the landed gentry in the south of England, Pride & Prejudice explores contemporary anxiety around courtship, reputation and social expectations for women. The story centers on the Bennet family, whose unmarried daughters are not in line to inherit their family estate and must therefore marry to secure their livelihoods. The heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, champions the importance of marrying for mutual love and respect, rather than for wealth or status, although in the end she manages to achieve both in her own marriage to Mr Darcy.
This production designed to innovate on traditional practice through adaptation, access and stylistic form. Seven actors will rotate roles within each performance, every actor playing almost every character. The aim is to produce a faithful adaptation of the original text while maintaining a small cast allowing fresh takes on enduring characters and archetypes. This production offers actors an opportunity to stretch themselves in their abilities and work in unique ways with their fellow performers and offers audiences a unique experience that couples modern creative practices with traditional stories and characters.
1984
MAY 15th - 23rd
In a world of constant notifications, shifting headlines, and invisible watchers, Orwell’s warning feels closer than ever. Our original adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 brings this classic to the stage with urgent, contemporary force, reminding us that control doesn’t always arrive with boots and guns. Sometimes it comes disguised as convenience, safety, and “truth.”
This new retelling highlights the many tragedies at the heart of Orwell’s beloved book: the rewriting of history, the slow surrender of privacy, the corrosion of language, and the heartbreaking cost to the individual in a regime of obliterative unification, regardless of one's side.
Echoing our own age of surveillance, misinformation, and cultural division, this production asks a difficult question: If freedom can be edited, who decides what remains?
Dark, gripping, and unsettling in its familiarity, this adaptation invites audiences to confront the world of 1984 not as a figurative mirror to modernity, but instead as an example of the cost of apathy.
MAY 15th - 23rd
In a world of constant notifications, shifting headlines, and invisible watchers, Orwell’s warning feels closer than ever. Our original adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 brings this classic to the stage with urgent, contemporary force, reminding us that control doesn’t always arrive with boots and guns. Sometimes it comes disguised as convenience, safety, and “truth.”
This new retelling highlights the many tragedies at the heart of Orwell’s beloved book: the rewriting of history, the slow surrender of privacy, the corrosion of language, and the heartbreaking cost to the individual in a regime of obliterative unification, regardless of one's side.
Echoing our own age of surveillance, misinformation, and cultural division, this production asks a difficult question: If freedom can be edited, who decides what remains?
Dark, gripping, and unsettling in its familiarity, this adaptation invites audiences to confront the world of 1984 not as a figurative mirror to modernity, but instead as an example of the cost of apathy.
WEREWOLF
JULY 17th - 25th
Werewolf is a brand new Dire Original that explores the weight of generational curses. It follows a man living with a terrible curse: each full moon, he becomes something wild, destructive, and impossible to control. This time, he swears it will be his last. For the sake of his marriage, his future, and the people he loves, he’s determined to face the night, endure it, and finally break free.
But love, fear, and denial make complicated companions. After an argument with his wife at his 'last moon celebration', the man and his mother, also cursed, take to the streets to celebrate the way their family has for ages. Only this time the man brings his tragedy home with him, out of the night and in to the cold light of day having committed a crime so heinous in his altered state that forgiveness and survival may be impossible. His exhausted wife clings to hope. His mother calls him foolish while quietly bracing for the worst. And as the beast offers itself as a vessel of emancipation from responsibility, the wreckage that follows cannot be undone.
Allegorical, intimate, painfully human, and all to familiar, Werewolf uses the mythology of the monster to explore the quiet tragedies families carry in private, the damage we cause, the people who stay anyway, and the realities of addiction.
JULY 17th - 25th
Werewolf is a brand new Dire Original that explores the weight of generational curses. It follows a man living with a terrible curse: each full moon, he becomes something wild, destructive, and impossible to control. This time, he swears it will be his last. For the sake of his marriage, his future, and the people he loves, he’s determined to face the night, endure it, and finally break free.
But love, fear, and denial make complicated companions. After an argument with his wife at his 'last moon celebration', the man and his mother, also cursed, take to the streets to celebrate the way their family has for ages. Only this time the man brings his tragedy home with him, out of the night and in to the cold light of day having committed a crime so heinous in his altered state that forgiveness and survival may be impossible. His exhausted wife clings to hope. His mother calls him foolish while quietly bracing for the worst. And as the beast offers itself as a vessel of emancipation from responsibility, the wreckage that follows cannot be undone.
Allegorical, intimate, painfully human, and all to familiar, Werewolf uses the mythology of the monster to explore the quiet tragedies families carry in private, the damage we cause, the people who stay anyway, and the realities of addiction.
JEKYLL / HYDE
OCTOBER 16th - 24th
The duality of man is decidedly more fractious than perhaps first imagined.
In The Dire Theatre Company's newest radical adaptation, Jekyll / Hyde, the duality of man is fractured and amplified: different actors embody the many different facets of both Jekyll and Hyde, giving physical form to the conflicting desires, fears, and impulses that live within both halves of the single soul. Dr. Jekyll’s obsession with separating light from darkness unleashes Edward Hyde, but the struggle is no longer contained within one body, it is a chorus of ambition, temptation, guilt, and violence, each facet taking the stage to wrestle for dominance.
Those around them, friends, lovers, and colleagues, are caught in the wake of this fragmentation. Each must confront their own hidden impulses, loyalties, and moral compromises as the line between good and evil begins to blur.
With a sleek, clean, and sharp delivery and a rhythm that speaks to modern audiences, this production dissects identity, obsession, and morality with forensic precision. There is no such thing as good and evil, only collections of components that build two halves of a whole.
OCTOBER 16th - 24th
The duality of man is decidedly more fractious than perhaps first imagined.
In The Dire Theatre Company's newest radical adaptation, Jekyll / Hyde, the duality of man is fractured and amplified: different actors embody the many different facets of both Jekyll and Hyde, giving physical form to the conflicting desires, fears, and impulses that live within both halves of the single soul. Dr. Jekyll’s obsession with separating light from darkness unleashes Edward Hyde, but the struggle is no longer contained within one body, it is a chorus of ambition, temptation, guilt, and violence, each facet taking the stage to wrestle for dominance.
Those around them, friends, lovers, and colleagues, are caught in the wake of this fragmentation. Each must confront their own hidden impulses, loyalties, and moral compromises as the line between good and evil begins to blur.
With a sleek, clean, and sharp delivery and a rhythm that speaks to modern audiences, this production dissects identity, obsession, and morality with forensic precision. There is no such thing as good and evil, only collections of components that build two halves of a whole.