Welcome to Offbeat Theatre
What we do....
We do all sorts of interesting and strange plays, films and projects with youth theatres (and sometimes adults!). We devise our own plays and games and we LOVE making films. Our costume department is a wonderful room of strangeness as well as housing our Bugsy collection. Briefly this is what we have ... but do check the other pages for more details
We specialise in BUGSY MALONE costume and splurge gun hire. Check out our Bugsy page for details.
We also promote selected SCRIPTS for Youth Theatres and Schools that are slightly (or completely) off-the-wall, unusual, fantasy-based or just plain bonkers. We have Full length, one act, sketches and free stuff!
We also have the SHOTGUN from WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Take a look at the hire page
We LOVE to create STRANGE COSTUMES.... Take a look and see if we can help you out with your own requirements in the weirdly wonderful costume department
We have heaps of royalty free ambient sounds we're planning to share with you any day soon
We have some rather odd and quirky theatre games we'd also like to share (soon)
Feel free to contact us for extra info and queries etc!
We can provide some fairly unusual scripts for Youth Theatres, Groups and Schools, as well as costumes and splurge guns for Bugsy Malone.
Offbeat Blog & Updates
January - still.... Is there no end to this? Darkness in the Night is a 50 minute one act farce for teenagers & it is brilliant & very funny. A fantastic challenge for a cast of 4.
Yet more January news! More new stuff! Fantastic Figments is a short one act for a young cast of 15+. Lots of colourful characters, crazy action & scope for lots of fun! Next up is the wonderful Darkness in the Night Watch this space....
January 2012 - still Hooray! New stuff on the Offbeat site. Take a look at Perilous Tales on the one act page. It's a series of 4 very odd cautionary tales written for a youth theatre in 2008. If you don't want anything that long you can also get the tales as separate sketches. More coming ... on a roll now...
January 2012 Happy New Year! Just planning a lot more pages, more scripts, some games and some royalty free sounds for your stage, film or radio projects! Busy..... I'll start getting the new stuff on this week including the rather crazy Perilous Tales a series of tales involving peril believe it or not.... You can have them separately as sketches or as a one-act play with linking dialogue. Also, hot off the stage we have Rob Hockley's Darkness in the Night a one act farce for 3 teenagers & great fun! I have heaps of royalty free sounds created for me over the years by Corin Harper. I've used these on stage and in films and they add so much ambience and atmosphere to performances of all kinds (I'll put a few film clips up as well - just for interest). Throughout the years I've been running a Youth Theatre Company I've devised a lot of rather strange games and events - I'll get those together as well. So ... please come back soon!
November already ...: Cruising into Christmas now. Lots of hires but a decent sized break for the Xmas holidays. I would really like to find time to photograph the 50s collection (so far), a few more Bugsy costumes and some of the stranger pieces we have. Wyrd Sisters anyone? After Juliet? We have a lot of wonderful 'punk Elizabethan' costumes you can take a look at already. If you're planning Bugsy in the new year we are booking FAST! please don't leave it too late...