Paschale Straiton

I am a theatre maker with 25 years of experience in making fun and playfully provocative performance in outdoor public space. My shows integrate carefully considered facilitation, to ease people into joining in as active audience members. And increasingly, my work includes space for non-professionals to join as cast and crew members. I have a playful and comic approach, which looks to create a sense of togetherness, here and now, from which to explore big ideas, such as difference, prejudice, loss and failure.

The images below represent a range of projects I have worked on in recent years. Some of these were created by Red Herring Productions – the company I founded in 2013. For more information about the company, please visit the Red Herring website. Others were created with Burn the Curtain, Avanti Display, Walk the Plank and Ramshacklicious. My roles in these projects were varied but all include a significant creative contribution.