HighTide Festival

HighTide Theatre

Address	Box Office: Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, IP15 5AU Aldeburgh, Suffolk
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HighTide Theatre is one of the UK’s leading producers of new plays, and the only professional theatre focused on the production of new playwrights. The company produces around six new productions each year which tour the UK's leading theatres and internationally.

Under Artistic Director Steven Atkinson, HighTide have premièred major productions by playwrights including Ella Hickson, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Nick Payne, Adam Brace, Beth Steel, Laura Poliakoff, Luke Barnes, Vickie Donoghue, Lydia Adetunji, Jack Thorne and Joel Horwood. Since being founded in 2007 and hosted at The Cut Theatre in Halesworth until 2014, HighTide have partnered with many of the world's leading theatre companies to co-produce new playwrights, including: the National Theatre, Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre, The Old Vic, Latitude Festival, Sheffield Theatres, Headlong, BAC, Watford Palace Theatre, Theatre 503, Aldeburgh Music, Eastern Angles, nabokov, Macrobert, to London's West End, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Australian National Play Festival and The Public Theater, New York and Off-Broadway.

HighTide receives and considers around 1000 scripts a year from around the world, from which they then work with 100 playwrights on a range of development opportunities, from workshops to full productions. Every play that is received is read by the Artistic Director and Associates.

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