The Other Place

Our home for new writing, intimate performances and family events.

The Other Place is located on Southern Lane, just down the road from the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres. Every year we showcase new plays and writers in The Other Place theatre, alongside music, poetry and family events.

The Other Place is also home to Susie's Cafe Bar, which is open Wednesday to Saturday from 11am to 5pm. The ideal place to drop in to for barista-made coffee, plus a range of hot and cold drinks, snacks and cakes. 

Dogs are welcome. 

People going into the main entrance to The Other Place, which is festooned with bunting
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Past productions

The Other Place has hosted a range of new plays and writers, including being the home of our regular Mischief Festivals. Browse the gallery below to learn more about some of our past shows.

Peter Hamilton Dyer and Indra Ove in #WeAreArrested.

The play was part of our spring 2018 Mischief Festival and told the story of a journalist arrested and exiled for publishing information about illegal government activity.

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Jay Taylor as Lermontov in Maydays.

In 2018, David Edgar's award-winning 1983 play was revisited at The Other Place as part of the autumn Mischief Festival.

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Fehinti Balogun and Rebecca Humphries in Myth.

Truths were revealed around the dining table in this play from the spring 2017 Mischief Festival.

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Emmanuella Cole, Tom Lyall, Solomon Israel and Madeleine Worrall in Kingdom Come (2017).

This powerful play set during the English Civil War saw the actors and audience moving around the Other Place.

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Julie Legrand and Ruth Gemme in The Ant and the Cicada.

Erica Whyman directed this version of the Timberlake Wertenbaker play as part of the 2014 Mischief Festival.

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Laura Howard and Ifan Meredith in Always Orange.

The play was part of the Making Mischief festival in 2016.

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Jimena Larraguivel in Day of the Living.

Telling the story of 43 disappeared Mexican students, this play was part of a double bill with #WeAreArrested.

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Ruth Lass in Crooked Dances.

Robin French's compelling play about music, time and attention in our modern digital age first played at The Other Place in summer 2019.

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