Touring Together: An Exciting New Collaboration

We have joined forces with Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Oxford Playhouse, Warwick Arts Centre, Leeds Playhouse and Brighton Dome to create a robust network of touring venues to make, present and partner with us on this new venture. Touring Together is being generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 

We will produce and tour work that sparks a national conversation about some of the big questions of our times. We'll be working with exceptional artists to share new stories which shed fresh light on the world we live in today, for new and diverse audiences, with an aim to build and encourage theatre-going across the country.

As an industry, we are collectively aware of how difficult it is to produce new work at the midscale and the perceived risks surrounding it. Touring Together aims to tackle these issues through extensive audience-building programmes running throughout the year built around our programme of shows to create a strong new touring brand. Through this long-term collaboration with venues, we can build real relationships within communities across the country and long-term theatre-going habits. 

We’re starting our three-year programme with a year of audience development with our partner venues. The first show, produced by Fuel, will be presented in autumn 2026 followed by a China Plate production in autumn 2027. We will be announcing our first show this autumn!

A key element of Touring Together will be evaluating the project and sharing our findings as we go, exploring new ways of working and collaborating that we can share with the industry. We will be actively looking for opportunities to connect and share what we learn throughout the project with a more comprehensive evaluation shared once we have completed this first cycle. 

We can’t wait to share more of this project with you as it develops: watch this space! 

For more information please contact Fiona Bradley (Producer, China Plate) [javascript protected email address] or Luke Holbrook (Senior Producer, Fuel) luke@fueltheatre.com.