High Tide Festival 2012, 3 - 13th May 2012

HighTide Festival Theatre was founded in 2007 to discover, produce and champion emerging playwrights. This remains our core vision, and informs all of the company's work and future ambitions. We receive over 900 unsolicited script submissions annually. Every script is read.

Under Artistic Director Steven Atkinson, the annual HighTide Festival in Halesworth has become one of the UK's leading theatre events. HighTide's productions then transfer nationally and internationally in partnerships that have included: the Bush Theatre (2008 & 2009), National Theatre (2009), Old Vic Theatre (2010), Ambassador Theatre Group / West End (2011), to the Edinburgh Festival (2008, 2010 & 2011) and internationally to the Australian National Play Festival (2010).

HighTide Festival Theatre is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.

HighTide Festival 2012 is based at The Cut, The Rifle Hall and Printworks in our home of Halesworth, Suffolk.

We produced four productions in 2011. In 2012 we’re producing eighteen.

Why? Because all eighteen have at their heart extraordinary playwrights who have asked to share their stories with you.

How? Thanks to you. The HighTide Festival is increasingly known as a home where innovative artists are rewarded by playing to engaged and game audiences.

And so this Festival is welcoming many new partners: established theatres in Headlong, The Nuffield Southampton and the Public Theater in New York; leading companies in nabokov, Bad Physics and curious directive; and the next generation in Lucy Jackson, Utter and Jon McLeod.

An increase in size has enabled greater variety, and there are too many ‘firsts’ to list them all here. We develop and produce all the work you will see, and as such we hope you experience the festival as we intend it: by seeing everything. The two weekends are full of events, morning through night. And it’s ‘Pay What You Can’ for shows in the weekdays if you prefer to spread out your viewing.

TICKETS

Tickets are available to buy online NOW! Please visit our website via HighTide Festival, Halesworth.

Telephone bookings can be made on 0207 566 9766

FESTIVAL LOCATION

Suffolk's HighTide Festival takes place in the Suffolk market town of
Halesworth. Halesworth is close to the Suffolk / Norfolk boarder, situated south of Norwich, north of Ipswich, and is just a short drive from the costal holiday resorts of Southwold and Aldeburgh.

For Accommodation nearby please see - Accommodation in Halesworth

TRAVEL by TRAIN

Greater Anglia manages the line from London Liverpool Street, via Ipswich, to Halesworth. Services also run from Cambridge and Norwich.

Journeys from London Liverpool Street take just over two hours.


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