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Who are Time & Again?

Time & Again are a multi-award winning theatre company with an innovative niche of exploring disability and mental health within a vibrant historical context. Our new writing pushes the boundaries of how a story can be told visually, whilst having accessibility at its heart via creative captioning, integrated BSL, and projections.

We are passionate about showing that disability, neurodivergence, and mental health aren’t new concepts – they have always been present throughout history – and we want to positively represent this on our stages.

We’re particularly interested in giving voice to the lives of women who pushed boundaries, either by working in typically male-dominated industries, engaging in political or revolutionary ideas, or behaving in a way that wasn’t deemed acceptable by society at the time.

Based in Manchester, Time & Again have been creating theatre since 2017 and its core team is made up of members who are deaf, neurodivergent, and with lived experience of chronic illness. 

 

What have you worked on?

Time & Again have extensive experience creating and producing new writing, adapting Shakespeare and other classic texts, critically acclaimed runs at the Greater Manchester Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe, rural touring, regional touring, and outdoor theatre.

We are particularly experienced in working with museums and heritage sites to help bring history to life, and have previously collaborated with the Pankhurst Centre, RAF Museum Cosford, the Severn Valley Steam Railway, Yorkshire Air Museum, Kirkstall Abbey, and Victoria Baths.

In 2022 Time & Again premiered their multi-award winning show, EARWIG. Following the life of Marigold Webb, a deaf insect collector living in the 1920s. EARWIG performed at the Greater Manchester Fringe before transferring to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a critically acclaimed run at the Assembly Rooms, where it won both the Birds of Paradise Emerging Talent Award (for writer/actor Laura Crow) and the Offie Award for Best Show of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Time & Again also staged their popular SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK event again in 2022; outdoor theatre featuring a revival of our wonderful 1980s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as a 1950s seaside themed Much Ado About Nothing!

Previous productions have included: CLOUDS, which won the Oldham Coliseum Pick of the Fringe Award in August 2019, as well as an Undrowning Scholarship for using theatre to promote women in STEM, particularly the lack of women in the aviation industry; and GREYHOUNDS, which was developed into an audio drama during the UK’s first national lockdown with support from The Library Presents, Angel Radio, and Yorkshire Air Museum, following a successful UK tour in spring 2019.