Chickenshed

Chickenshed is your local theatre – and so much more besides! We have been making entertaining and outstanding theatre for over 40 years, and our inclusive creative process is renowned nationally and internationally. Our purpose-built theatre spaces play host to a huge range of productions and activities across the whole year, offering a welcoming, creative hub to a community of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. We create in-house productions that take place on our main stage, the Rayne Theatre, present regular interactive shows for very young children, new and smaller scale work for adults and families in our intimate Studio Theatre and have a busy programme of live music and comedy events in the Bar. But that’s not all - we run weekly sessions for our Children’s and Youth Theatre members, Saturday and holiday activity workshops for 5-12s, with performance and singing workshops for adults too. Chickenshed also offers a unique opportunity to learn and perform in a working theatre. We offer three nationally accr ed education courses at Foundation Degree, BTEC and BA level - and are rated 'Outstanding' by OFSTED. And if all that wasn’t enough, we have Brothers Grill at the heart of our building, a wonderful café bar/restaurant which is perfect for a morning coffee, a light lunch or an evening meal, and who can host meetings, parties or celebration events in any of our many spaces! Check out our website for more details, and see what Chickenshed could be for you... And don’t forget, as a registered charity there are always ways that you can get involved in supporting our pioneering work. From volunteering front of house, behind the scenes or as part of our general or administrative team, to taking part in challenge events or partnering us through your business or organisation you could be a part of creating a society which enables every individual to flourish.