Touring

Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 The Empty Space is now touring three productions nationally and internationally during 2009. For more detail on each show (including tour dates and technical information) please click on the links below:

Hand-me-Down - a one-woman show that unfolds stories from the everyday objects and unwanted clothing of the second hand shop to ask what place charity really has in today’s world of instant gratification and must-have bags. Immersive, intimate and funny – this is a little piece of charity shop heaven. More

Motherland dramatises the powerful and moving stories of women whose lives have in some way been touched by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  These are the women who live in our street, who drink in our local, who share our bus journey home. With warmth, humour and candour they let us into their homes and their lives to show us the lottery of war - a snapshot of our time that is both hard-hitting and everyday.  “He was a boy.  I loaned my son to them to do a job.  I didn’t say you could keep him.” More

Heartbreak Soup premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. The show is now touring for the first time. Heartbreak Soup is a kaleidoscope of live action, puppetry, humour and an all encompassing soundscape. Heartbreak Soup is the story of Cuddy. He’s getting ready to tell his story. Dan is here to help. They tell tales of playground games, fantastic islands, even a secret romance. But the real magic is that all these tales are conjured from the drawers under Cuddy’s hospital bed.” More