Pregnant Fish Theatre Company are currently based at The University of Worcester, and are supported by the Drama and Performance Department
About
Ethos
Pregnant Fish’s ethos is that theatre isn’t about a grand expensive spectacle. It’s there to entertain, to tell stories, to create characters that seem real, to connect with each other and the audience in an extremely intense and basic style that can’t be done in any other way than through drama.
History
Pregnant Fish Theatre Company Ltd was set up in early 2010 by a group of 9 friends studying their first year for BA(Hons) in Drama and Performance at the University of Worcester. We are presently based at the University and are supported by the Drama and Performance Department.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim was our first production together, and was taken to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010 as part of PBH’s Free Fringe. Cutting the staging down to the bone, the production was in intimate one, for an audience of 40 at a time in the cramped backroom of a nightclub off the Royal Mile.
Since then we were awarded start up business funding and Pregnant Fish has expanded it’s membership and briney horizons, whether working on ‘Spring Awakening’ to promoting Specsavers’ ‘Big Fit’ through high street ukulele fuelled songs, to Folk-inspired storytelling and puppetry at the Dartmoor Folk Festival 2011, or our Summer 2012 tour of The Picture of Dorian Gray which promises to be our most challenging yet, we’re always trawling the sea for new projects and adventures!
