Supported by Arts Council England, Marlowe Theatre, Backstage Trust, Kent County Council & Folkestone Town Council

Based on the award-winning picture book by Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley, The Littlest Yak is a joyful musical adventure about growing up and finding your place in the world.

Nominated for four OffWestEnd Awards for Performance, Writing, Music and Design, The Littlest Yak has toured nationally following sold-out runs at the Marlowe Theatre, Polka Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre.

Bursting with catchy songs, ensemble storytelling and beautiful puppets, The Littlest Yak is an uplifting celebration of self-acceptance, reminding audiences (big and small) that we all have a place in the Big Yak Pack.

Touring has included: Marlowe Theatre, Polka Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Lowry, Watford Palace, Belgrade Theatre, New Wolsey and many more.

Commissioned by Albany & Arc Stockton. Supported by Arts Council England, Backstage Trust & the Sylvia Waddilove Foundation

Inspired by George MacDonald’s fairytale, The Light Princess was a joyful musical adventure about a floating princess, an overprotective queen and a kingdom obsessed with turnips.

In the frozen land of Sneachta - where “same is safe”, clocks stand still and laughter is treated with suspicion - the floating, giggling Princess had always been different. Hidden away in the palace, her world changes forever when she meets Orla, an inventor and dreamer determined to help her fly free.

Driven by a pop-infused score, the production filled theatres with giant turnips, ridiculous characters and gravity defying princesses. It was a poignant celebration of creativity, friendship and that being different is actually rather brilliant.

Tour Included: ARC Stockton, Storyhouse Chester, Harrow Arts Centre, Gosforth Civic & The Albany.

Supported by Bath Spa Productions and the egg, Theatre Royal Bath

LAStheatre brought Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s award-winning novel to the stage in a sweeping adventure about friendship, forbidden places and the courage to question the received wisdom of borders and those we are told to fear.

Raised on stories of floating islands and the warrior-girl Arinta, Isabella dreams of the world beyond her small corner of Joya. But when her best friend disappears, she sets out into the island’s dangerous wilderness armed only with an ancient map, the stars above her and the stories passed down by her father.

Combining shadow play, physical theatre and puppetry, the production vividly conjured the forests and volcanic landscapes of Joya.

Venue: the egg, Theatre Royal Bath

Commissioned by Folkestone Quarterhouse. Supported by Arts Council England.

LAStheatre’s anarchic musical adaptation of Dickens’ festive classic transformed A Christmas Carol into a fast-paced seaside caper filled with songs, silliness and larger-than-life ghosts.

Performed on a giant Victorian toy theatre inspired by Folkestone’s seafront, the production combined actor-musicianship, shadow puppetry and comedy to reimagine Scrooge’s journey for a family audience.

The production also foregrounded the story’s social themes - homelessness, poverty and collective responsibility - through a partnership with Folkestone’s Rainbow Centre. Across the sold-out run, post-show collections raised over £1,400 for the charity.

Bursting with music hall energy, mischievous humour and original songs, A Christmas Carol celebrated the power of kindness, community and festive chaos.

Venue: Folkestone Quarterhouse.

A LAStheatre and Wild Rumpus co-production. Commisioned by Barnaby Festival. Supported by Arts Council England.

The Astronomer’s Story invited audiences into the extraordinary world of John Merschel and his eccentric team of scientists, alchemists and ragamuffins. Together they recounted their attempts to outdo the infamous “Great Moon Hoax” through increasingly absurd experiments involving swan-powered space travel, giant marshmallows, dancing stars and lunar beavers.

Created as the theatrical centrepiece of La Lune - a town-wide artistic takeover of Macclesfield - the production transformed Christ Church into a strange observatory where audiences became part of an unfolding celestial crisis. Armed with diffraction glasses, stars and wishing rhymes, audiences were enlisted to help return the moon to the sky before catastrophic floods engulfed the world.

The Astronomer’s Story was a glorious celebration of imagination, collective wonder and the power of communities to create real magic.

Venue: Christchurch, Macclesfield

Supported by Arts Council England & Folkestone Quarterhouse

Inspired by The Story of Mrs Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat by Lore Segal, Lovewright was a non-verbal, circus-theatre production exploring loneliness, companionship and learning to love others for who they truly are.

The story followed Mrs Lovewright, who longed for the perfect cat - one that would purr, cuddle and curl up happily on her knee. But when her new companion arrives, things do not go quite as expected. Together, the pair navigate their very different ideas of affection, comfort and friendship until they discover a relationship that feels right for them both.

Blending physical theatre, puppetry, live music and circus, the production used movement and visual storytelling to create a powerful experience for young people and their families.

Venue: Folkestone Quarterhouse

Commissioned by Applause, 101 Outdoor Arts and 1DegreeEast. Supported by Arts Council England

Happy in his rockpool, Caspian loves cleaning and collecting stories from passing squid and curious sea snails. But when humans come and build a town near his home, everything changes!

As rubbish and sewage begin pouring into the sea, Caspian is swept into an unexpected adventure that transforms him from timid caretaker into an unlikely leader determined to help creatures and humans live better together.

Beneath the chaos lies a joyful exploration of environmental responsibility, collective action and the idea that even the smallest voices can create change.

A funny, heartfelt and gloriously silly outdoor adventure for landlubbers aged 3+.

Touring has included: Eastleigh Unwrapped, Basingstoke Festival, Wonder In The Streets and rural touring dates with Applause and Spot On Lancashire.

A LAStheatre, Wild Rumpus & So It Is co-production. Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Cheshire East Council & Arts Council England

The Lost Carnival was a large-scale immersive family arts festival created in collaboration with Wild Rumpus and So It Is, with LAStheatre leading the creation of the central spectacle.

In its first year, audiences discovered the fading Ingénue Carnival hidden amongst the trees of Burrs Country Park. Sustained by the dying magic of a stolen phoenix, the carnival depended on its audiences to survive. Families became part of the story - helping to “wind up” the carnival as performers, musicians and clairvoyants united to summon the phoenix home.

In year two, the story expanded into a spectacular rivalry between two competing carnival dynasties: the glamorous Ingénues and their long-time adversaries, the Birds. At Queen’s Park in Crewe, audiences chose sides and explored the rival carnivals filled with roaming musicians, jugglers and clowns before gathering for a huge finale.

The Lost Carnival invited families to run away with the circus and step inside a theatrical world where phoenixes rose, carnivals feuded and public parks became utterly magical.

Venue: Burrs Country Park, Bury & Queens Park, Crewe

Commissioned by Without Walls & Just So Festival. Supported by Arts Council England, 101 Outdoor Arts & artsdepot 

Everybody clap your pans - it's time for The Rascally Diner!

Inspired by The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis and Korky Paul, this riotous outdoor production invited audiences to join celebrity chef Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley for a televised birthday spectacular celebrating ten years of revolting recipes. Armed with pots, pans and emergency “cake checks”, audiences became part of Rufus' kitchen crew as he attempted to protect the world from his greatest creation (and nemesis) - a gigantic man-eating cake.

Messy, musical and gloriously absurd, The Rascally Diner brought a chaotic world of goo and culinary catastrophe to festivals and city streets across the UK. Beneath the anarchy lay a exploration of food, sustainability, and our relationship with the natural world. 

Tour included: GDIF, Brighton Festival, Just So Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Point Eastleigh and Chichester Festival Theatre.

Supported by Arts Council England, house, 101 Outdoor Arts & Harrow Arts Centre

Mouse lives in a tiny house beneath a great rock. At the very top lives Lion - owner of the loudest roar on the savannah.

Based on the bestselling book by Rachel Bright and Jim Field, The Lion Inside was a outdoor adventure celebrating courage, confidence and finding your voice. Audiences joined Mouse on an epic journey as they learned songs, practised their roars and helped transform a tiny squeak into something much bigger.

At the heart of the production was a simple but powerful idea - that being brave does not mean becoming someone else, but discovering the confidence to be yourself.

Tour Including: Theatr Clwyd, Watford Palace, New Wolsey, Corn Exchange Newbury, North Wall

Supported by Bath Spa Productions and Visit Bath

LAStheatre transformed the streets of Bath into a city-wide immersive adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Following a spectacular opening at Bath Abbey featuring a cast of 25 performers, audiences became Scrooge and were led by towering spectres through the city streets to encounter the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Blending promenade theatre, large-scale spectacle and intimate encounters, the production expanded Dickens’ world far beyond the original novella. Along the journey, audiences encountered characters and stories from Dickens’ other Christmas writings, including The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth and The Haunted Man, transforming Bath into a living, breathing Dickensian winter world.

With stilt-walking spirits, lantern-lit processions and a finale returning audiences to Bath Abbey, the production reimagined a familiar classic as an epic immersive adventure about generosity, memory and redemption.

Venue: Bath Abbey and across the city

Commissioned by Kew Gardens. Supported by Culture Creative & Raymond Gubbay

Created for the winter landscape of Kew Gardens, Hweol was a spectacular immersive experience inspired by British mythology, pagan traditions and the ancient rivalry between the Oak King and the Holly King. Towering above the audience stood the Holly King himself - a 20-foot illuminated figure watching silently over the flames and the gardens beyond.

Across the evening, audiences encountered poetic tales of kings, witches, jesters and queens - stories filled with riddles, rituals, magic and warnings about power, excess and humanity’s relationship with nature. 

Seen by over 100,000 audience members, Hweol invited audiences to pause, gather and reflect on the cycles connecting people, landscape and season.

Venue: Kew Gardens, London

A LAStheatre, Taking Flight & Awen co-production. Supported by Bridgend County Council’s Social Recovery Fund

An immersive adventure inspired by real Welsh witches!

Audiences were recruited by the Department of Strange Events after Heledd Harries accidentally unleashed a magical crisis whilst researching her family history. Descended from the legendary Wizards of Cwrt-y-cadno - a family of astrologers, herbalists and cunning folk - Heledd unknowingly cast a spell causing fairies across Wales to lose their memories and become stranded far from home.

Armed with fairy-filled satchels, magical lullabies and a trail of hidden clues, audiences embarked on an interactive treasure hunt to return the Tylwyth Teg safely to their Fairy Lodges before Wales became trapped in an endless winter.

Tour inc: Taliesin Arts Centre, Pontio Arts, The Welfare Ystradgynlais, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Awen

Comissioned by The City of London. Supported by Coney

At St Dunstan-in-the-East, audiences were welcomed by the Story Dispensers - mysterious characters responsible for collecting, protecting and sharing the stories of London. 

Before a tale could be released from their archive, audiences had to offer one of their own: a memory, confession, fear or fragment of truth exchanged through a series of peculiar rituals and ceremonies.

The Story Dispensary reimagined London as a living archive of giants, rogues and transformed St Dunstan-in-the-East into a mischievous site of exchange, asking audiences not just to hear stories, but to become part of them.

Venue: St Dunstan-in-the-East, London

Supported by Arts Council England

ZΩΗ placed human stories at the centre of the climate and ecological emergency.

The production invited audiences to imagine possible futures for our planet and consider their own role in shaping them. Drawing on scenarios developed from the UN's  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the experience transformed complex ecological systems into a accessible participatory experience.

At the centre of the production were stories from Climate Witnesses - people living on the frontline of environmental change. Their experiences became the foundation for an exploration of biodiversity, global inequality, migration, indigenous knowledge and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Collaborators included researchers and practitioners from Cardiff University, University College London, University of Kent, the Francis Crick Institute & Greenpeace.

Venue: Studio 338, London

Supported by Arts & Business Scotland, BBSRC, Royal Society of Edinburgh & The Gate 

Set inside a quarantined Edinburgh under martial law, audiences took on the role of the last uninfected citizens in Scotland - herded through laboratories, lecture halls and hidden corners of Summerhall by soldiers, scientists and survivors as the epidemic unfolded around them.

Created in collaboration with leading researchers across public health and biomedical science, the production introduced audiences to the real-world science of epidemiology, surveillance and outbreak management.

Blending horror-movie tension with genuine scientific inquiry, Deadinburgh invited audiences to confront urgent questions around fear, freedom and what it truly means to be human in a time of crisis.

Collaborators included the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh University, Health Protection Agency, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Heriot Watt University & Manchester Metropolitan University.

Venue: Summerhall, Edinburgh

Supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, Arts Council England, STFC and UCL

The year is 2050. The world is running out of water and humanity is searching for a new way forward.

New Atlantis invited audiences to step into a world of climate crisis, political debate and speculative futures. As the leader of New Atlantis prepared to step down, audiences had just 90 minutes to explore competing visions for the future - and decide who should lead humanity through the troubling years ahead.

Audiences wandered freely between engineers, climate scientists, policy-makers and performers debating everything from Antarctic research and asteroid mining to food systems, water infrastructure and radical lifestyle change.

Collaborators included UCL, Pennine Water Group and Rutherford Appleton Space Lab

Venue: The Crystal, London

Commissioned by Coventry Mysteries Festival. Supported by Arts Council England & Big Bang Fair

Hidden in the heart of Coventry is a mysterious building known only as The Institute of Impossibility - a place of strange noises, occasional fireworks and extraordinary ideas.

For the first time in a generation, audiences were invited inside the Institute to encounter peculiar characters, real scientists and EVO - a mysterious machine on the verge of collapse. To save creativity from destruction, audiences helped refuel the machine with their own ideas, imagination and curiosity.

Created in collaboration with Coventry University and the University of Warwick, this immersive experience introduced audiences to agroecology, satellites, synthetic biology and what network theory can teach us about myths and legends.

Venue: Drapers Hall, Coventry

Supported by the Old Vic Tunnels 

Deep in the tunnels beneath Waterloo station, audiences were invited to wander through a labyrinth of candlelit chambers filled with peculiar lectures, theatrical encounters, scientific demonstrations and spirited debate. Visitors attended ward rounds at the Royal Bethlem Hospital, experiment with gin distillation, discussed philosophy in velvet armchairs and encountered fire scientists, psychiatrists and psychic physicians.

Combining live music, immersive theatre, historical curiosity and real scientific research, The Enlightenment Café surreptitiously served science to an arty crowd, and invited the scientists amongst the audience to dabble in the play of performance.

Collaborators included astronomer Stuart  Clark, fire scientist Clare Benson, toxicologist Kathryn Harkup, psychiatrist Tim McInerny, mathematician Alex Belos, curator (and mermaid enthusiast) Paolo Viscardi & Perhaps Contraption.

Venue: Old Vic Tunnels

Supported by Surge Scotland, Bath Spa University & Clwstwr

During the COVID-19 pandemic, LAStheatre hosted Neverthere Festival - a programme of workshops, conversations, residencies and performances exploring the new possibilities digital technologies hold for live performance.

The programme included conversations around digital platforms, open-source technologies and accessible tools for creating interactive performance, alongside artist residencies and practical workshops led by experienced digital practitioners.

Neverthere also platformed innovative online performances and hybrid experiences, including a collaboration with Surge Scotland to present a digital Outdoor Arts showcase.

Part festival, part laboratory, Neverthere explored how audiences might gather, play and experience stories together in new and unexpected ways.

Venue: Online

LAStheatre & Taking Flight co-production in association with Awen Cultural Trust & Theatrau Sir Gar

An interactive outdoor adventure inviting audiences to join the Department of Strange Events and investigate the mysterious disappearance of colour from a small Welsh town.

The hybrid experience combined an interactive app with live performers, creating a curious journey for audiences across parks and public spaces as they followed clues, solved puzzles and planted seeds to restore Aberlliw’s hue and humour.

Performed in Welsh, British Sign Language and English, the show featured integrated accessibility and a cast of Deaf, disabled and non-disabled performers.

Tour Inc: Unity Festival, Memo Arts Centre, The Big Splash (Newport), Span Arts, Treboth Botanical Gardens

Commissioned by the China Children's Book Expo

Story Storage was an interactive installation that imagined a company with an unusual purpose: storing stories.

Commissioned for the China Children’s Book Expo to showcase the events four flagship picture books, Story Storage invited audiences to journey into the world of each book, discovering interactive play spaces along the way.

Part interactive exhibition and part theatrical adventure, Story Storage explored imagination as something precious and worth protecting.

Venue: Beijing Exhibition Centre

Supported by The Ragdoll Foundation

HOME was a geolocated audio experience exploring the meaning of home, belonging and the spaces that shape us.

Created in collaboration with five young artists during the Covid-19 pandemic, the project invited audiences to explore parks and public spaces across Lewisham using an interactive audio map unlocked through movement and discovery.

The R&D project also explored new ways of collaborating creatively with young people online and investigated geolocated audio as a tool for playful, socially distanced performance.

Locations: Hilly Fields, Brockley & Beckenham Place Park, Lewisham

Supported by Greenwich Theatre and Paisley Arts Centre.

Broadcast live from Greenwich Theatre, this gloriously chaotic online experience transformed kitchens into culinary playgrounds led by the infamous chef Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley.

Armed with a collection of deeply questionable ingredients - including freeze-dried maggots, stinky toenail clippings and bugs in backwash - audiences cooked together live on Zoom while learning the all-important “Cake-Cake Slide”: an emergency dance routine designed to detect rogue man-eating cakes.

As children compared “Daddy’s toenails”, shouted “BLEURRGGHH”, and proudly shared their “revolting” creations, kitchens across the country became part of one enormous theatrical dining experience celebrating silliness, food and the joy of making a mess together.

Venue: Online

Commissioned by artsdepot
Supported by John Lyon's Charity and Ove Arup Foundation

LAStheatre worked with pupils from four Barnet schools to build a future city - an inclusive and sustainable metropolis designed around two simple ideas: that it should be good for people and good for the planet.

Inspired by the Social Model of Disability, the project explored how the design of our towns and cities can either create or remove barriers to living sustainable, environmentally conscious lives.

Through collaborative world-building, young people were invited to reimagine the future of the communities they might one day inherit.

Venue: artsdepot, London

Commissioned by Royal Opera House and ICON Theatre

Creative Connections brought together teachers and artistic practitioners to explore how storytelling and play could become part of everyday learning.

Working alongside primary schools across the Isle of Sheppey, LAStheatre developed simple, imaginative approaches to supporting curriculum learning through creativity and collaboration.

The project later evolved into a CPD programme which LAStheatre has since delivered to hundreds of teachers across the UK.

Commissioned by the Southbank Centre

As Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre, LAStheatre created The Big Wedding Makeathon - an interactive craft experience celebrating hundreds of couples getting married at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Festival of Love.

Inspired by real stories shared by the couples themselves, audiences were invited to create eco-friendly wedding decorations including origami pets, cake toppers, confetti balloons and handmade bunting whilst the performers regaled them with tales of romance, connection and celebration as the Royal Festival Hall was transformed for the big day.

Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London

Commissioned by National Museums Scotland

Created with young people as part of Scotland Creates: A Sense of Place, Zombies in the Museum transformed Edinburgh's Chamber's Street Museum into an interactive horror adventure inspired by zombie films, live-action gaming and scientific research. 

Guided by real scientists from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh, participants explored darkened corridors, encountered infected survivors and uncovered the source of a terrifying epidemic hidden amongst the museum collections.

Co-created alongside young adults and youth theatre groups, the event used immersive storytelling, science communication and the ever popular after-hours museum event to produce a thrilling theatrical takeover. 

Venue: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Commissioned by Art+798, Beijing

LAStheatre adaptated 王蕾’s book Monster In My House during a residency at the Art+798 International Arts Centre in Beijing.

LAStheatre collaborated with children aged 4–12 to devise and build the production. Across the residency, young participants helped create the set, costumes and puppets before sharing the finished performance.

Audiences arrived as babysitters tasked with looking after a nervous little girl while her parents went out for the evening. But no sooner had the door closed than monsters began creeping from cupboards, mirrors and shadows - including the Great Venus Demon, the Bull Demon King, the White Bone Demon and a particularly greedy pig. 

Monster In My House celebrated collaborative making, imagination and the thrill of things going bump in the night.

Venue: Art+798 International Arts Centre, Beijing.