New Perspectives has announced an ambitious new season featuring three distinct works spanning national theatre tours, grassroots community spaces, and immersive digital audio. Renowned for taking bold contemporary drama to audiences across the UK for over five decades, the East Midlands company brings together darkly comic social satire, working-class history, and eerie fenland folklore to reach theatregoers wherever they are.
Arriving first next month in time for Christmas is Black Shuck, a haunting binaural audio ghost story designed to be experienced through headphones. Written by and starring Michael Lambourne alongside Jim Findley, Karl Theobald, Lucy Speed, Mark Jardine, and Tanya Myers, the digital release intertwines the chilling East Anglian legend of a death-heralding black dog roaming the fens with Lambourne’s deeply personal account of his own cancer diagnosis.
In March 2027, the company takes sixTeen to schools, civic hubs, and non-traditional spaces nationwide. Co-written by working-class academic Dr Lisa McKenzie and Participation Director Jayne Williams—who also directs—the piece blends live performance with audience discussion. Told by an all-female working-class cast and creative team, it follows three girls coming of age in a Nottinghamshire mining community during the turbulent 1984 miners’ strike.
Rounding out the season from April to June 2027 is Let the Whale Die, a provocative new play by Meg Schadler directed by Artistic Director Angharad Jones and co-produced with Royal & Derngate Northampton following their acclaimed collaboration on (the) Woman. When a young woman fails to keep an aquarium’s star orca alive, viral public outrage collides with her unexpected sense of liberation. Following its Northampton debut, the production tours to Park Theatre in London, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, The Lowry in Salford, Nottingham Playhouse, and Belgrade Theatre Coventry.
Reflecting on the programme, Artistic Director Angharad Jones noted that each piece uses storytelling to help audiences make sense of contemporary life and mortality. Full tour schedules, digital release updates, and booking details are available via the company’s official website.
