WHO ARE WE and WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Regeneration Theatre is a new theatre company whose mission is to make World Class theatre, and take it not just to established audiences, but to the people and places left behind.

Fiona Laird: “During the Covid pandemic, and thinking about isolation and the negative effects it was clearly having on so many people, I started thinking about HAMLET, and had the idea to explore the play’s themes of isolation, psychlogical torment, grief, madness and put them all - the whole play - through the medium of ONE actor: Mark Lockyer. Having got the support of Rufus Norris the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, who has known Mark for many years and worked with him numerous times - I set about cutting the play, and a few months later Mark and I started developing the idea/play at the National Theatre Studio. This process lasted the best part of two years, and it became clear that we had something very special on our hands. Not only that but it had such far-reaching potential that I felt we had to do something new and different with it: and so Regeneration Theatre was born.

Last year (April 2024, we previewed the show to great acclaim at the New Diorama, London, and then embarked on a huge fund-raising campaign to get us to the point where we could launch the play ourselves as an independent Production Company.”

Launching at WILTON’s MUSIC HALL in April 2025 the play will then tour to respected regional theatres nationally, as well as smaller theatres - to follow Regeneration’s deep commitment to taking its work to “the people and places left behind”.

See the trailer for the production HERE

We are partnering, on this production, with the National Youth Arts Trust whose mission is to make training in the performing arts accessible to young people with talent from non-privileged and disadvantaged backgrounds. This collaboration will provide discounted tickets for young people to see the work, and direct access routes to our educational workshops.

Triggered by the play’s themes and treatment, we will work with charitable partners in the mental health, homeless, and prison sectors, as well as in schools in disadvantaged areas, and deliver innovative outreach therapeutic programmes, to promote understanding of issues and emotions, and ultimately improving life chances and outcomes.

We will reach people and places previously left behind, offering pathways to therapy and recovery.