A NEW SHOW FOR 2024
1967 – a remarkable year! The Summer of Love, Sergeant Pepper, the launch of the QE2 and BBC Local Radio, Sandie Shaw wins The Eurovision Song Contest, and a flying saucer lands in Stoke-on-Trent…
Oh yes!
Dozens of witnesses saw a glowing, saucer-shaped craft touch down in a field beside the largest council estate in Europe, and for the characters in Claybody’s new drama, life will never be the same again.
Because of all the people on Planet Earth, the pottery folk of Stoke-on-Trent know a saucer when they see one!
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER - SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER
THE DIPPING HOUSE
SPODE WORKS
CHURCH STREET, STOKE
ST4 1BU
PERFORMANCE RUNNING TIME
2 hours 15 minutes (including interval)
MEET THE CAST
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ALSO COMING UP LATER THIS YEAR...
HOOTENANNA!
A Six Towns Celebration for New Year’s Eve 2024 (Caution, may contain Nannas)
On New Year’s Eve 2024 Claybody Theatre will present an online celebration of Stoke-on-Trent, with a special focus on the city’s Grandmothers..
If you have a great story about a Grandmother doing amazing things, we’d like to hear from you!
THE DIPPING HOUSE
THE DIPPING HOUSE A new arts and community venue for Claybody and Stoke-on-Trent
We're delighted to announce our residency at Spode in a former dipping house.
We presented our 2023 production SONG OF THE SYTCH in this wonderful industrial space, and we're now working hard to bring more events, performances and community activities to this brand new venue we have called THE DIPPING HOUSE.
At the start of the year we presented a 12th NIGHT WASSAIL event with Cor Bach, and in February we were delighted to be joined by our Patron for AN AUDIENCE WITH TOBY JONES - in conversation with Deborah McAndrew, sponsored by KMF.
'This amazing space… which really is one of the most beautiful theatrical spaces I’ve seen in years.
It’s so wonderful… how it’s haunted by its past – it’s great!'
TOBY JONES
This is how you do site specific theatre,
this is how you make historic spaces work and this is how you entertain audiences
AT THE THEATRE
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