Spoon Theory & Rat Boy

Spoon Theory

Written and Directed by Bex Bowsher

Co-directed by Tory Copeland

Performed by Steven Blackshaw, Lisa Eagleton & Graham Hornsby



When it starts, you don't realise it’s started. In a flash of ink you are transformed. It happens that fast. Belle is newly married. Planning a honeymoon. A life. A future. She knows nothing of spoons.

And then she is hit by a car. And the spoons are dictating her life. The spoons tell her what she can do, and what she can't. But, how can she put her life back together when her spoons keep disappearing?

Rat Boy

Written by Christina Berriman Dawson & Lee Mattinson

Directed by Christina Berriman Dawson

Creative Support Laura Lindow

Music Composed by Kirk Turnbull (QFX)

Choreographer Malcolm Shields

Performed by Christina Berriman Dawson, Micky Cochrane, James Hedley, Paula Penman & Christopher Price

When a thirteen year old lad goes AWOL in the rat run of Byker Wall, Gash and Jam are the only ones with any hope of finding him. Each and every breadcrumb's laced with synthetic freedom. Because it's 1995 and, even if Rat Boy's mates had mobiles, they'd be as big as the bricks their Byker is built upon.

The Rat Boy media frenzy caught the imagination of region. See extracts of a story of a ‘Rat Boy’, and the heartbeat and heart break of a community, with a banging 90s rave sound track!