Rachel Baynton

The Board of Directors has appointed Adam Pownall, who joins Zest from his current position as Senior Producer at Hull Truck Theatre, as Executive Producer of Zest Theatre at a momentous time for the organisation.

Contemporary politics is a game without defined rules, where artifice and spin are the tools of choice, and where the moves are made across the boardroom table. When one side wins it almost inevitably profits only a select and privileged few.

The latest instalment in their provocative Truth to Power project takes you into the room where the lies begin

The latest instalment in Proto-type's provocative Truth to Power project takes you into the room where the lies begin. It visits Sheffield and Harroget this month.

Last night, Birmingham Hippodrome raised the curtain on its first ever home-grown youth production as a fresh new production of West Side Story opened to a sell-out audience and standing ovation.

This August, Birmingham Hippodrome will present its first home-grown youth production as a fresh new production of West Side Story comes to the main stage from 29 - 31 August.

Proto-type Theater are bringing their innovative and critically acclaimed play A Machine They're Secretly Building to Sheffield University's Drama Studio on 7 November.

Following the disappointment of the March postponement caused by bad weather, a replacement date has been announced for Proto-type Theater's THE AUDIT (or Iceland, a modern myth) at ARC, Stockton-on-Tees. The show, which has been creating a stir around the country, can be seen today 10 July as the last date of its national tour. The performance will be interpreted in British Sign Language for those with hearing impairment.

The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide's swept out, and it's taken our hope with it. There's less in our pockets and more to be spent. The rich have got richer, the middle's squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards.

The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide's swept out, and it's taken our hope with it. There's less in our pockets and more to be spent. The rich have got richer, the middle's squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards.

Following the disappointment of the March postponement caused by bad weather, a replacement date has been announced for Proto-type Theater's THE AUDIT (or Iceland, a modern myth) at ARC, Stockton-on-Tees. The show, which has been creating a stir around the country, can be seen on Tuesday 10 July as the last date of its national tour. The performance will be interpreted in British Sign Language for those with hearing impairment.

The new show from acclaimed Proto-type Theater has its world premier at Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University in Lancaster on 27 February at 8pm.

The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide's swept out, and it's taken our hope with it. There's less in our pockets and more to be spent. The rich have got richer, the middle's squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards.

Proto-type Theater presents the Scottish premiere of A MACHINE THEY'RE SECRETLY BUILDING, a wry expose of spies, lies and surveillance, running Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 April at 8PM at Tron Theatre Changing House, Glasgow.

Starring one of Britain's best loved comedians, Joe Pasquale, and award-winning star of stage and screen, Robert Powell, Doctor in the House follows the comic misadventures of an inexperienced young medical student, Simon Sparrow, at the beginning of a five-year internship at St. Swithin's Teaching Hospital. Check out two photos of the cast in action here, ahead of the May 8 opening night. The show runs until May 12.