Circa Theatre - Making History Real.

BRING THE CURRICULUM TO LIFE

Choose one of our national curriculum anchored characters so pupils can meet the people they’re learning about.

LIVE HISTORY

Bring to life the unique stories in your historic building or collection. Make it a day to remember with drama that shares and celebrates life stories.

Workshops Tailored to you

Work with our experienced writing team to create customised workshops that animate your space and captivate your audiences.

Making
History
Real

Circa brings people together through live stories and characters. With over twenty years of expertise in first person interpretation, history-based workshops, inter generational and reminiscence drama we make a dramatic difference to classroom history or visitor enjoyment.

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News

01 FEB
‘Explainer Training’ now underway Rehearsals begin for a new gallery character, ‘Mabel’ telling the remarkable insider story of how, in 1925, John Logie Baird came to make the first live television broadcast of a human face.
19 JAN
Circa Launches New Website! Over the past couple of months, we have been working closely with the team at Miln to carefully construct our new website, in order to provide a fantastic information hub to find all the facts you're looking for…
27 OCT
Circa at Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley Mills Circa created a murky canalside ‘whodunit’ for families and other visitors to Armley Mills. Set in Georgian Leeds, the mystery took visitors on a hunt for gruesome and smelly clues lurking in the dark alleys of 1830’s Leeds.

Feedback

"Extremely enjoyable…there were benefits to everyone without exception, every kind of learning style was catered for and we achieved some brilliant follow up work as a result of the experience."
Holy Spirit School, Dewsbury.

"Imaginative, absorbing and inspirational! Brought the past vividly into the present tense here at the Parsonage." Director. Bronte Parsonage Museum

"Your knowledge and enthusiasm for the period that you brought back to life is obvious for all to see. The day was a great success, bringing many visitors to the Museum for the first time. I look forward to the next time we can work together. Garry Smith, Curator, Tameside Metropolitan Museum