Absolute Theatre – extraordinary, stimulating theatre

CURRENT/RECENT PROJECTS:
‘PAUSE: THE CLOWN OPERA’
‘BECAUSE I’M A LONDONER’, ‘THE PIRATES OF THE RIVER LEA’ and ‘THE STORY TREE’

THE SIMPLE CLOWN
Clowning workshops with Simon Fraser.
Sunday 14th June 2026. Playhouse East, London E8 4DG
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/34993/the-simple-clown-workshops

PAUSE: THE CLOWN OPERA
The Maestro dreams of grand opera – real orchestra, real glory. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with two hapless cleaners. As their well-meaning but disastrous attempts to help spiral out of control, music collides with mess, imagination runs wild, eventually revealing something extraordinary: the long-lost masterpiece ‘Pause’!

Audience Feedback
“Wonderfully silly”
“It gave me childish joy… and something I cannot fully describe. Like any good piece of art should do”
“An incredible performance – full of energy, emotion and talent”
“It was beautiful”

More dates announced soon

Absolute Theatre exists to make extraordinary, stimulating theatre, create new audiences and promote wider engagement with live performance.

The company was established in 1991 and acquired a reputation for an innovative, highly visual style, offering a sensorial, emotional and intellectual experience not available through any other medium.

Over the years it has established strong connections with other theatres and arts bodies, in particular, the Theatre Royal Bath, where the company’s creative team was involved in a number of productions which included ’Twelfth Night’, a new adaptation of ‘Electra’, several youth theatre shows and a revue piece for the Bath Shakespeare Festival.

Our 2018 collaboration with Portuguese company Teatro do Montemuro resulted in ‘Os 4 Clowns do Apocalipse’, which toured internationally and has inspired a continuing relationship with clowning.

Absolute has regularly delivered training and education, often as an element of the performances. Close links with schools and colleges within London and further afield have developed, leading to numerous projects including ‘Jericho Stone’ (Kingston Jamaica), ‘Portland Stories/Quarters Kids’ (Dorset) and, between January 2022 and February 2025, ‘Because I’m A Londoner’, made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.