Gecko and Dream Awake (a newly formed immersive company) are delighted to be opening auditions for physical theatre performers and actor-musicians to join both companies across 2024, 2025 and beyond.

We are thrilled to announce we are running two professional development intensives this spring led by Gecko’s very own devising performers.

A chance to refuel, replenish and reinspire your creative practice with a particular focus on devising and making movement.

‘This residency was one of the most impactful and profound experiences in my artistic journey.’ - Spring ’23 Residency Participant

Internationally acclaimed physical theatre company Gecko are thrilled to be collaborating with East 15 Acting School and their CT 3rd year students. This brand-new devised production delves into the characteristics of archetypal childhood trauma and what happens to these wounds as adults. Directed by long-standing Gecko performer Chris Evans and told with Gecko’s unique visceral and poetic style, ‘The Rescue’ is a story about heroes, monsters and surviving growing up.

We are thrilled to announce our winter professional development intensive of 2023 led by Gecko performer, Dan Watson and Gecko’s Assistant Director, Andres Velasquez.

A chance to refuel, replenish and reinspire your creative practice with a particular focus on devising and making movement.

‘This residency was one of the most impactful and profound experiences in my artistic journey.’ - Spring ’23 Residency Participant

As it’s the 20-year anniversary of our debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, we’re reflecting on this year’s programme and all of the brilliant work that companies and creatives are bringing to the city. Edinburgh Fringe was critical to our development as a company and we were even taking shows there as late as 2017, so we know how vital to the arts in the UK (and indeed the world) the festival is.

We are thrilled to announce our summer professional development intensive of 2023 led by Gecko performer Chris Evans.

A chance to refuel, replenish and reinspire your creative practice with a particular focus on devising and making movement.

‘This residency was one of the most impactful and profound experiences in my artistic journey.’ - Spring ’23 Residency Participant

We are thrilled to announce the run of our new show, Kin at the National Theatre in January 2024. Kin will open at the Lyttleton Theatre from January 12-27 following our UK tour.

We are seeking an outstanding, driven and experienced Producer to join us at a pivotal time for the company as we tour our latest theatre production, Kin; make our debut with Kin at the National Theatre in January 2024; and develop and tour new and existing productions nationally and internationally. You will play a significant role in ensuring Kin’s touring success, working with the Artistic Director to manage the continued development of the show as it tours, bringing our work to new and exciting audiences.

It's extremely important to capture as much of our work as we can, especially due to the way that Amit and our devising performers create our shows. At the end of an R&D or a residency, we usually have roughly 20/25 minutes of material. This material will be performed, and we'll film it. In the periods between our time in the studio, Amit will then go away with the recording and pick the work apart before the next R&D or residency where often 90% of the material has been scrapped.

Today we say a fond farewell to two of our board members, Giles Kerkham and Jeanette Siddall CBE who are moving on from Gecko after working tirelessly to support us for many years. Their contribution to the company has been immeasurable and we wish them well in their future ventures!

As Giles and Jeanette exit stage right, we welcome two exciting new board members to the team, Amy Vaughan and Helen Lannaghan.

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we wanted to highlight and celebrate women working in backstage & technical roles in theatre. So, while on tour with our new show Kin in Newcastle, we spoke to our Company Stage Managers Alyssa Watts and Leah Butterworth, our Sound Operator Sharon Tsang and our Lighting Associate Lucy Adams and asked them each a series of questions about their roles, their experience in the industry and what advice they’d give to someone starting out.

We’re excited to be recruiting for two new positions to join our core team, a Producing Assistant (Creative Engagement) and a Fundraising and Development Manager (0.5 FTE).

We are thrilled to announce our first professional development intensive of 2023 led by Gecko performers Kenny Wing Tao Ho and Katie Lusby.

A chance to refuel, replenish and reinspire your creative practice with a particular focus on devising and making movement.

‘As soon as you walk into the space there is a special feeling’

December ‘21 Residency Participant

Alongside our tour of ‘Kin’ we are thrilled to offer a discounted educational workshop to all schools who make a group booking to see the production at their local venue.

Monday 28th November - Friday 2nd December 2022, Ipswich | Suffolk

We are thrilled to announce our Winter professional development intensive led by Gecko performers Ryen Perkins-Gangnes and Madeleine Fairminer

A chance to refuel, replenish and reinspire your artistic practice with a particular focus on Gecko’s unique performance style.

‘I feel very empowered coming away from this, my soul really needed it’

Summer ‘22 Residency Participant

It’s been a long time coming, but our brand-new show Kin has finally made its premiere at HOME Manchester. Some of the team have been working on this production since 2017, but it’s been during the last three years where the show has truly to come together through several intense periods of creation and R&D (despite the pandemic’s best efforts to thwart us!).

Still was created in May 2022. Inspired by physical interactions through our previous workshops and R&D phase, and their personal stories elicited in one to one conversations, we decided to create a beautiful, high quality film to celebrate the amazing residents of Lime Court through Gecko’s unique style and visuals.

We are seeking an outstanding, driven and experienced Producer to join us at a pivotal time for the company as we tour our latest theatre production, Kin.

Summer Residencies Are Back! Applications are now open for our 11-15 July 2022 residency programme, a uniquely curated experience and richly collaborative space in which to connect, play and make art within a safe community where honesty and vulnerability is encouraged and championed.

Following a sold out run in 2019, Gecko returns to the Barbican Theatre 7 - 11 June 2022 with The Wedding, a blur of wedding dresses and contractual obligations, set in a dystopian world in which we are all brides, wedded to society. Tickets are selling fast so book now!