Birdcatcher
A new play by Laura Waldren | Directed by Elle WhileTickets go on sale to Artists’, Associates’ & Directors’ Circles on Wed 23 Sep at 12pm, Member Plus on Mon 28 Sep and Members on Tue 29 Sep, at 12pm. Tickets will go on general sale on Wed 30 Sep at 12pm. Become a Member to gain access to priority booking and other exclusive benefits.
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 inaugural production 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.
A work that suggests a major talent… one of my plays of the year
WhatsOnStage on Laura Waldren’s Some Demon
An astonishing debut … Ambitious, astute and utterly gripping
The Telegraph on Laura Waldren’s Some Demon
One of British theatre’s unsung treasures
The Guardian on Pentabus
