BECAUSE I’M A LONDONER 3 schools, 6 months, lots of fun Absolute Theatre worked with primary-age children from 3 boroughs in London - Newham, Camden and Waltham Forest - in the spring and summer terms of 2022. Participants were encouraged to consider what being a Londoner meant to them. At the start of each schools’ ...

Produced in collaboration with TEATRO REGIONAL DA SERRA DO MONTEMURO, Portugal. Premiered Auditório Municipal de Cinfães, Portugal 17 February 2018; UK premiere The Performance Hub Walsall 16 March 2018 ‘The end of the world is nigh! Well maybe! The Horsemen of the Apocalypse assemble to fulfil their prophesied function. With epic scale incompetence they grapple with ...

New adaptation by Steve Fraser An Absolute Theatre creative team production for the Theatre Royal Bath. "Storm on the Lawn" Prior Park Bath August 2000

The lyricism and scoring of the work is emotive and at times genuinely tear-jerking – the impact heightened by the music… it’s a soap. It’s also an opera. And it all makes perfect sense. THE INDEPENDENT By Simon Fraser and Andrew Harries BAC September 2000

Absolute Theatre’s febrile production of Pam Gem’s remarkable play about a remarkable woman is pregnant with energy and ideas and is presented with a sumptuous panache seldom seen outside the National Theatre or Royal Shakespeare Company TIME OUT One of the years most exciting productions  KALEIDOSCOPE, BBC RADIO 4 TWICE TIME OUT CRITICS CHOICE; NOMINATED FOR ...

(Play in the Mountain) by Felix Mitterer. Translated by Penny Black, directed by Andrew Harries, music & sound by Simon Fraser, designed by Francisco Rodriguez-Weil. UK premiere October 2005 ABSOLUTE THEATRE/YOUNG ACTORS THEATRE CO-PRODUCTION with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Snipe Charitable Trust Mitterer's tale of two miners trapped in a salt ...

The Misanthrope flyerA confident, well performed production with a judicious edge of excess CRITICS CHOICE - CITY LIMITS A feast for the senses WHAT’S ON TIME OUT One of the finest companies on the London Fringe MARIE CLAIRE MAGAZINE

Andrew Harries’ accomplished production EVENING STANDARD Moving and atmospheric THE INDEPENDENT

by Henrik Ibsen Nominated for BEST PRODUCTION LONDON FRINGE AWARDS Nominated for TIME OUT THEATRE AWARD Winner BEST MUSIC LONDON FRINGE AWARDS “Flabbergastingly lively….Andrew Harries at once denaturalises and revitalises Ibsens text…and gets exceptionally strong performances out of his actors” THE TIMES The Man in the Moon London January – February 1994

By L. Frank Baum (RSC version) A cracker of a Christmas show... an absolutely fabulous evening TAUNTON TIMES Magical touch of wizardry THE STAGE