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.

Over the past four years Red Dog has developed a style and way of working that is now key to our productions.

• Working with disadvantaged young people
• In the round performance
• Working with local artists to create costumes and textiles that link to and celebrate the artistic importance and excellence of the textile industry in Gloucestershire

Please call Kate Abrahams on 07971093397 for further informatn of productions and workshops

'Dombey & Son' by Charles Dickens

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

For Dombey, money and the power it brings are the only gods worth worshipping.  But can money really buy him everything he dreams of?  What of love, or life itself? This is a tale of pride and passion, generosity and greed, of human foibles and the society which breeds them. A tale told with Dickens’ characteristic humour, indignation and pathos. In this sparkling new adaptation Red Dog brings a rogues’ gallery of unforgettable characters vividly and imaginatively to life, to delight, outrage and entertain.

This new adaptation by Jude Emmet will be directed by Sue Colverd with design by Corinne Hockley and music by Colin Sell, ensuring the same impeccable acting and vitality of direction noted by playwright Naomi Wallace in our production of her One Flea Spare. Or as a Bristol audience member put it after seeing our production of The House of Bernarda Alba, ‘one of those rare plays where every decision is spot on’.

Red Dog will be touring this production in Autumn 2012 and tickets will be on sale shortly. Special preview prices available for OPENhouse, Stroud performances on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th September

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!"