About

Red Herring is a performance company set up by Paschale Straiton in 2008 to create outdoor theatre performances and installations, in collaboration with a broad range of professional practitioners – designers, puppeteers, composers, stand up comedians, journalists - and often with the participation of students and community groups.

The company aims to create visually arresting theatre that has a highly intimate and interactive quality, which is experimental and provocative, while remaining accessible and engaging. The company presents work in public spaces, though sometimes unusual ones, and for free where possible in order to engage members of general public, and not just regular theatre-goers, in an immediate artistic experience.

Artistic Director Paschale Straiton is a performer, director, writer and maker with 10 years experience in devising theatre, having worked with a range of devising companies, including Company f.z., Cartoon de Salvo, Shifting Sands and Forkbeard Fantasy. She is committed to providing inspiring performance for wide ranging audiences, particularly those with a limited access to the arts.