The Bread & Roses
​Emerging Companies Award

From the very beginning The Bread & Roses Theatre has been dedicated to providing fair opportunities to companies and theatre-makers from all backgrounds, by offering box office splits without any upfront fees or reserves. With the Bread & Roses Emerging Companies Award the theatre is going a step further and offering one company a one-week-run for which they receive 90% of box office takings as well as awarding a runner-up prize of a Sunday/Monday slot with 90% box office takings. The previous winners of the award have achieved a sell-out run

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2015 Winner: Well Behaved Women with Dog Play Dead
presented 5th to 9th January 2016

2015 Runner-Up: Lo/Fall Theatre Company with How to Survive a Swarm of Bees, presented 17th to 20th March 2016

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Also given a one-week-run from 2nd to 6th February 2016, following originally an application with another play,
was given director David Gasperetti on behalf of Ghost Light Theatre Group with Swing by Around 8 by Jessica Bray.