Playhouse 2022

Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Polka, Theatre Iolo, Theatre Royal Plymouth & York Theatre Royal/Written by Miriam Battye, Paul Birch, Jenna Drury & Tanika Gupta/ Performed by young casts from Primary Schools across the country/ 2022

Playhouse is a national collaboration between Theatre Royal Plymouth, York Theatre Royal, Polka Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Theatre Iolo and Bristol Old Vic. The six theatres have worked together to commission professional playwrights to write short plays specifically for large casts of primary school children to perform.

In Paul Birch’s Cross Words Hillview Primary School has a big problem. The children are at war with each other. To make matters worse the school is in a larger community which is at war with itself.

The problem is language. Everyone seems to be speaking a different language and too many cross words are being spoken. But something is about to change…

Photos below kindly supplied, with permission, of Polka’s performance of Cross Words 2022.