WHO ARE WE?
"A force to reckon with..." - ReviewerNumber9
"At the forefront of making high quality theatre for northern audiences." - The Play's The Thing
Elysium TC is a new, independent, professional theatre company based in Durham. Our goal is to bring the best of world theatre to the North of England, with particular focus on the North East.
THE COVID-19 MONOLOGUES VOL 2, ARE HERE!:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2m5VY1oKaKZ4MkwgvORXIw2A0tOguh4W
Elysium Theatre Company is an award-winning, independent theatre company based in Durham. We tour regularly across the North East and in Greater Manchester. We have produced six highly acclaimed productions so far, including northern premieres of plays by Jez Butterworth, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Owen MacCafferty and Athol Fugard, and revivals of modern classics by August Strindberg and Samuel Beckett. Our Northumberland-set adaptation of 'Miss Julie' won Best Revival in the North East in the British Theatre Guide in 2019.
Covid-19 forced us off the stage and online. As well as producing a host of online workshops on the great dramatists of Europe and America, we produced the Covid-19 Monologues, nine specially-commissioned pieces of new writing that can be seen online on our YouTube channel Elysium TC. These won us a prestigious Olwen Wymark Award from the Writers Guild of Great Britain in 2021 for support for new writing.
We also produced our first live streamed production, 'Hello And Goodbye' by Athol Fugard, featuring Elysium TC co-founders Danny Solomon and Hannah Ellis Ryan. Produced with our long-term collaborators QHA in Hexham it was live streamed from the Northern School of Art's beautiful theatre in Hartlepool and remained online for a week to immense critical acclaim. Students of the Northern School of Art designed and built the set and customer and operated the live stream cameras. It was a very exciting experience.
We have big plans for the future. Stay tuned!
