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UK TOUR 2025 ON SALE NOW

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Following the world premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 201 Dance Company are pleased to announce the UK tour of the critically acclaimed SAD BOOK will visit theatres in Spring 2025.

Adapted from Michael Rosen’s award-winning book, Sad Book is a visually inventive, moving story of navigating complex emotions in the midst of everyday life.


In this personal story of loss, a father explores the disconnection between what we feel, what we show, and different ways we deal with sadness.

Sad Book makes the deeply personal, universal, retelling the story through dance, physical theatre, animation and stunning original music.

Directed and Choreographed by Andrea Walker, Sad Book is the third production from 201 Dance Company, renowned for presenting emotional, evocative pieces with cinematic production design.

SELECTED TOUR DATES - INCLUDING HACKNEY EMPIRE - WILL FEATURE LIVE, IN PERSON NARRATION FROM MICHAEL ROSEN. 

UK TOUR DATES AND TICKETS

THE OLD MARKET 
BRIGHTON




NORWICH PLAYHOUSE
NORWICH





THE MILL ARTS CENTRE 
BANBURY




HACKNEY EMPIRE
LONDON



 

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Tues 11th and Wed 12th March 2025, 19:30

Tickets from £18

Post-show Q&A with members of the company plus special guests on both nights

Fri 14th, 19:30 and Sat 15th March 2025, 19:30

Tickets from £17.50

Post-show Q&A with Michael Rosen and members of the company after the Saturday evening performance

Fri 28th March 2025, 19:30

Sat 29th March 2025, 14:30 and 19:30

Tickets from £17.50

Wed 2nd April 2025, 19:30

Tickets £12-£22

Featuring live narration by Michael Rosen

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Photos by Josh Brady

PERFORMING CAST
2022 -Ongoing

creatives and crew

Directed and Choreographed by: Andrea Walker

Associate Director: Patrick Collier

Associate Choreographer: MIchaela Cisarikova

Music by:

Richard Evans

Angela Pollock 

Barney Morse Brown 

Simon ‘Palmskin’ Richmond 

Production and Lighting Design by: Louisa Smurthwaite

Projection Design for Really Creative Media by:

Jack Fox

Louise Rhoades-Brown

Animators:

Liu Bofan

Harriet Bruce

Louise Rhoades-Brown

Production Management: Pete Rickards for eStage

Lighting Programmer: Steve Heywood

Set Build by: Ox Events

Stage Manager: Hannah Swindell

Research and Development Performers:

Alan Coveney, Michaela Cisarikova, Yasmin Cogan de Abreu, Megan Ingram, Thomas Page, Sam Reeves, Zara Richards, Tamae Yoneda

Produced by:

Natalie Allison

Patrick Collier (development stage)

Pip Sayers (development stage)

A 201 DANCE COMPANY PRODUCTION

© 2022-2025

SAD BOOK IS SUPPORTED BY

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