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- Offstage Theatre (UK) is "an enterprising young theatre company", based in Waltham Forest, London, run by Artistic Director and Producer . The company's first piece was Home, written by Gbolahan Obisesan, Cressida Brown and Emily Randall in response to the demolition of the housing estate Beaumont Road. The site-responsive piece functioned as "a valuable document of a people and a place just moments before an irrevocable change". "The project, which overwhelmed the creative team with its success" established Offstage as a Site-specific theatre company. In 2015, Offstage Theatre was announced as recipients of the . With KSF's support, they returned to Beaumont to create the sequel to Home, Re:Home. The production was performed at The Yard in 2016 and was nominated for Best Production and Best Ensemble at the Offies 2016. Offstage has also staged a site-specific production of Macbeth in Paris to mark the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday. The production was featured on French news channel France 24, where director Cressida Brown and actor were interviewed. Other productions include Walking The Tightrope, ten five-minute plays exploring censorship in the arts, longlisted for Amnesty Scotland's Freedom of Expression Award. "Tricky, dangerous, stimulating, discomfiting – what serious theatre is for, in other words"., it was first shown at Theatre Delicatessen with the following plays:
* Tickets are now on sale by Caryl Churchill
* Please Forgive Us Whoever You Are by Ryan Craig
* Sun City by April De Angelis
* Beyond the Fringe by Tim Fountain
* A Bond of Love by
* Exhibit A by Neil LaBute
* Acting Towards the Promotion of Peace by Sarah Solemani
* Faust for Kids by Hattie Naylor
* Re:Exhibit by Gbolahan Obisesan
* Old Newland by Julia Pascal
* Band Wagon by
* What Are We Going To Do About Harry? by Mark Ravenhill In August 2015, Walking the Tightrope transferred to the Underbelly for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with two new commissioned works from and Timberlake Wertenbaker; it was pick of the festival for both The Scotsman and The New York Times. The patrons of Offstage Theatre include Richard Rogers and Baron Rogers of Riverside. (en)
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- Offstage Theatre (UK) is "an enterprising young theatre company", based in Waltham Forest, London, run by Artistic Director and Producer . The company's first piece was Home, written by Gbolahan Obisesan, Cressida Brown and Emily Randall in response to the demolition of the housing estate Beaumont Road. The site-responsive piece functioned as "a valuable document of a people and a place just moments before an irrevocable change". "The project, which overwhelmed the creative team with its success" established Offstage as a Site-specific theatre company. (en)
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