Integrating acting, design and animation to produce exhilarating and challenging theatre.

Red Dog are committed to accessible theatre, bringing contemporary theatre to new audiences nationwide. In particular we explore the extraordinary aspects of human nature, touring plays that are critically acclaimed, often rarely seen in the UK, but always provocative.

  • The House of Bernarda Alba
  • One Flea Spare
  • Yellow Wallpaper
  • Skin Tight
  • The Ugly Duckling

Welcome to Red Dog

Red Dog is a professional theatre company and registered charity based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Our style is contemporary and bold and our mission is to create theatre that inspires and engages intellectually,  imaginatively and emotionally.

Live theatre is about the dynamic between the audience and the actors and we aim to offer the extraordinary opportunity to share an immediate, unrepeatable experience.

Following our successful tour and London run with Naomi Wallace's 'One Flea Spare',  Red Dog have just finished touring Federico Garcia Lorca's final masterpiece 'The House of Bernarda Alba' to many venues including Chipping Norton, Theatre Royal, York and The Bikeshed, Exeter.

The House of Bernarda Alba Testimonial

"Powerful and dark but not without humour too. Wonderful set and costumes"

"Totally gripping. Very imaginative production"

"Beautiful combination of words, talent and technical mastery"


"The use of projection and costume was very skilfully used. The energy of the cast was excellent and the intensity of emotion has left me quite drained!"

"Brilliantly performed, excellent set, very powerful!"

"Lively, insightful, emotional truth, Lorca - a man after my own heart....Red Dog's One Flea Spare was so good, I wanted to see this production. Not disappointed!"

"Very faithful to the spirit of the play, I love the modern translation, very dramatic, superb strong acting."

'Dombey & Son' by Charles Dickens

“Papa, what is money?
What can it do?”
“Money, Paul, can do anything”

Paul Dombey of the house of Dombey and Son in the heart of the City, worships at the altar of money and power, ready to sacrifice all human feelings of love and sympathy to achieve position, reputation and the greatness he aspires to.

When at last his dream of a son and heir with whom to share all these material advantages is realised, even at the cost of his wife’s life, he builds his castles in the air and imagines the greatness to come.

In his world there is no place for a girl, not even his own daughter, though a beautiful new wife may be bought and bent to his inflexible will. But castles built on dreams will tumble down, and Dombey’s blindness in his dealings with those he thinks he controls will prove his undoing.

Can there be any redemption for him from the ruins around him or has he indeed lost everything? Set against a backdrop of bustling mid-Victorian London trying to adjust to its new industrial might, “Dombey and Son” is peopled by a rogues gallery of unforgettable characters to delight and entertain as well as outrage, all brought affectionately and vividly to life in Red Dog’s brand new production to celebrate the bicentenary of this master storyteller.

Red Dog will be touring this production in Autumn 2012, please contact us if you would like it to come to your venue.

'The Ugly Duckling' December 17th-28th 2011

'The Ugly Duckling' by Hans Christian Anderson adapted by Jude Emmet at Foyer Arts , Stroud

When Mrs Duck's eggs finally hatch one duckling is too ugly to fit into the farmyard scene. Why is this little misfit so different from his brothers and sisters? Where can he go to hide his ugly feathers and stop the teasing?

Join the little duckling on his journey of discovery and celebrate with him as he finds his true identity in this heartwarming and enchanting adaptation of the well loved fairytale
An ideal introduction to live theatre for ages 3-7

Tickets available 01453 840021 or from Star Anise Organic Cafe.