Ensemble Season 2026 | Programme
The National Centre for Circus Arts presents its 2026 Ensemble Season!
Our talented BA2 and BA3 students have crafted these exciting ensemble performances, working with industry-renowned directors, Hobbit and Daisy Minto.
Cold Pouring
Cold Pouring is presented by our second year students.
Cast
Ryan Aiken, Lorna Budd, Marie Cassidy, Samara Chan, Jo Chow, Mabli Clegg, Melissa Collins, Aimee Deam, Amma L Dixon, Amira Fitz, Constance Kwok, Jay Lance, Harriet Littlehales, Hollie Moulton, Julia Musialek, Naruha Ohta, Lizzy Ramsey-Brooks, Abi Worsley
Directed by Hobbit
Designer: Ayelet Rechtschaffen
Cold Pouring explores concepts like ambiguity, reconstruction, collaboration, and creative paradox — inviting the audience to witness the multitude of human experience in all its wondrous complexity.
The piece draws on mechanisms from Surreal Theatre from a feminist perspective, and takes inspiration from figures like Claude Cahun, Leonora Fini, and Margerite Humeau.Â
Liminal Planes
In a new-format for our BA3 ensemble production, our final-year students were divided into three companies and tasked with creating work based on the theme of Dreams.
Under the creative facilitation of Daisy Minto, each group has devised and directed its own performance.
Dear Diary
Dear Diary, I feel so betrayed and unhappy. I invited everyone to my annual Valentine’s party, but this has turned into a disaster.
I open my home and my heart, and what do I get in return? I can barely grip the pen as I write this: someone has stolen my most prized possession!
Cast
Leah Cash, Niamh Mason-Butcher, Macy Fenwick, Rhiannon Murphy, Johannes Siven, Rosa Wilm
Production Roles
Dramaturg: Macy Fenwick
Design: Niamh Mason-Butcher
Production: Johannes Siven
Technical/Rigging: Rhiannon Murphy
Lighting/Sound: Rosa Wilm
Marketing: Leah Cash
Echoes of Arachne
Dream catchers originated from the Ojibwe Tribe and are a traditional craft piece hung above a child’s bed to protect them while they sleep.
Under the curse of the gods, Arachne is left to weave the web of a dream catcher and is believed to catch bad dreams and filter through good ones.
Join us on a journey through the landscape of a dreamer’s mind.
Cast
Tamsin Bowles, Rosa Fox, Lauren Gibbs, Alex Kyriacou, Amelia Rosier-Denton, Millie Turley
Production Roles
Dramaturg: Rosa Fox
Production: Tamsin Bowles
Technical/Rigging: Lauren Gibbs
Lighting/Sound: Alex Kyriacou
Costume/Props: Millie Turley
Marketing: Amelia Rosier-Denton
End of the Line
Darkness? Dying alone? Teeth? Spiders? Falling down the gap? What are you scared of?Â
No signal, no connection. Just you and the hum of your own mind. When there’s nothing left to do, what fills the silence?
What do you think about on the tube? We’ve been thinking about you. Stand clear of the closing doors, this train is ready to depart.
Cast
Vida Blenkhorn, Alanna Clay, Katie Jenkins, Walleska Moran, Rachel Raynes
Production Roles
Design: Vida Blenkhorn
Production: Alanna Clay
Technical/Rigging: Katie Jenkins
Lighting/Sound: Rachel Raynes
Marketing: Walleska Moran
Artistic Team (for both Cold Pouring and Liminal Planes)
Lighting Designer: Mark Dymock
Sound Designer: Ollie Brennan
Producers: Adrian Porter and Joe O’Neill
Production Manager: Cory Duffill
Company Stage Manager: Sophie Oxenbury
Deputy Stage Manager: Martin John Bristow
Assistant Stage Manager: Amelia Hill
Creative Rigger: Matt Burch
Stage Crew: Toffy Paulweber
Assistant Production Manager/Stage Crew: Catriana Black
A big thank you to the staff and teachers of the National Centre.
Photos Alice UnderwoodÂ
We’ve always been passionate about ensuring our students have high-quality opportunities to perform their work and donations have helped us continue to produce these shows. But, as with many producing theatres in recent times, the cost of delivery has rapidly increased, and it now costs us roughly £100,000 every year to put on our student productions.
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