How they work – An award winning women’s theatre company and a leading force in the North of England with a national and international reach.They collaborate with women and young women on the margins of society to create bold and innovative theatre for personal, social and political change.

Why they are unique in the way they work – Their women-centred practice collaborates with women to draw out their collective voices and shine a light on their experiences, thus creating powerful professional theatre by perform to wide-ranging audiences. They encourage their audiences to walk in the shoes of the women and make space for debate.

Club members visited Newcastle’s Live Theatre fully expecting a fantastic evening and it was a mesmerising hour of superb acting from a very realistic script.  To describe it simply, truly AWESOME.

Rattle Snake

An epic tale, based on real life stories of women who have faced and survived coercive controlling domestic abuse. A story with no ending; a chance meeting with one man changes the lives of two women forever. Now they both live trying to predict the unpredictable. Rattle Snake is based on real life stories of women who have faced and survived coercive controlling domestic abuse.

Coinciding with the change in UK law in 2015 making coercive control in relationships a crime, Rattle Snake was originally commissioned by Durham University and Durham Constabulary and funded by Durham PCC and the AHRC and is used in the training of front-line police officers.