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.

As Covid-19 hit we were just about to launch our latest production, 'Look Back In Anger' by John Osborne. We've had to postpone that into 2021, but we have not been deterred. Throughout lockdown we have been very busy moving our creativity online.

We have produced a new play, 'Isolations' by Gary Kitching, a monologue for three actors which was commissioned by the Online: Onstage Festival in Durham pioneered by the Gala and Assembly Rooms Theatres. We have also launched the Covid-19 Monologues, all filmed under socially distanced conditions during lockdown. The first five are out, and we have begun work on the next five which will appear next February.

We've also been holding live online workshops on great dramatists. Our first series featured the work of the seven indisputably great European dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov. Our second series features the three key American playwrights Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. More workshops are promised for 2021!

You can catch all of these monologues and workshops in the LATEST NEWS section on here.

More to come! Covid-19 will not defeat us! Onwards and upwards!