Bruiser in a Box is our annual tour of post-primary schools and community groups/venues across Northern Ireland. The Bruiser team will stage a professional production in your assembly hall, sports hall or community centre for as many people as you'd like to attend. This is the perfect opportunity for students studying Bruiser as a chosen practitioner, for live theatre evaluations without the hassle of visiting a venue, and to spark an interest in the performing arts amongst young people.
Teechers by John Godber
3 week tour – September/October 2026
Back by popular demand, Bruiser will remount the political comedy Teechers by John Godber to post-primary schools across Northern Ireland.
Teechers is John Godber’s brilliant take on life at a modern Comprehensive. Through a hilarious end-of-term play, three Year 11s exuberantly sketch the new drama teacher’s progress through two terms of chaotic classes, cynical colleagues and obstructive caretakers. Disillusioned, the teacher departs for the safe waters of a private school, and leaves behind his students, whose youthful irreverence gives way to despair.
We believe Teechers offers exceptionally strong curriculum links, particularly within:
Drama: ensemble performance, physical theatre, characterisation, devising techniques, multi-role performance, theatre in education
English: satire, social commentary, narrative structure, character voice, contemporary text study
Learning for Life and Work / Citizenship: social inequality, representation, school life, student voice, pastoral themes
Cross-Curricular Skills: critical thinking, empathy, communication, and reflective analysis
The show has consistently proven to be a powerful learning tool that teachers can embed directly into department schemes of work, supporting both practical and theoretical components.
Dates: Monday 28th September - Friday 16th October. Please fill out the booking form to let us know which dates work best for you!
Price: We're running an early bird deal of £800 until the end of June 2026. Any bookings from July onwards, the cost is full price at £975. Don't delay in availing of this discount!
This tour typically sells out very quickly, so get your booking form in TODAY and be part of the unmatched Bruiser experience!
Touring from 28th September 2026
About the play: 13 year old Robert Caligari is a nasty piece of work. But today is the day he gets his comeuppance. Today is the day he’s going to die.
When Robert kicks his sister’s beloved piggy bank Trevor out of the window, he sets in motion a chain of events that results in the unexpected demise of a local fishmonger. Having developed a taste for blood and sick to death of sneering, imbecilic adults, Robert sets about becoming the real murderer he has always dreamed of being, all the while egged on by the newly-talking Trevor.
Based on the book by Doctor Who’s Tom Baker, this madly-hilarious, frenetic scream of a show, which includes shark-mauling beach-goers, burning vicars and even waltzing rats, is a multi-roling masterpiece that tells the gloriously grisly tale of one scoundrel’s attempt at infamy.
Packed full of the verbal and visual ingenuity that Bruiser is known for, this “horrible little show about a horrible little murderer” is jam packed with physical comedy, inventive staging and ensemble playing, in Bruiser’s trademark style.
“Inventive, clever, gruesome and hilarious, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs is a twisted triumph.”
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Wasted, by award-winning playwright Kat Woods, is a socio-political play that explores themes of binge drinking and sexual assault. Join Oli, Emma, and their friends on a night out drinking, flirting, and clubbing. The morning after the night before ensues and any event can only be remembered through the blurry haze of a dubious hangover. Wasted illuminates that grey area in the sexual relationship after a few too many drinks. The characters are not sure what has happened; both suffering from post-alcoholic amnesia. They are both secure in the fact that sex happened but, where alcohol puts the female in a state unable- legally- to consent to sex, our characters continually ask 'what happened' as they are marched through the legal system.
Age guidance: 16+ (strong language and potentially triggering content)
Trigger warnings: This production contains material of a highly sensitive nature including sexual assault, abuse, violence, mental illness/distress, drug/alcohol consumption/misuse, sexism and misogyny that may be triggering for some individuals. There will be discussions around the issue of sexual abuse and rape that some may find upsetting. Recommended support services include: Nexus, Ascert and Talk to Frank.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); a hilarious, fast-paced frolic through the Bard’s extensive playbook. Three maniacal actors clad in tights, weave, duck and dive through Shakespeare’s entire catalogue of Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. From Macbeth to As You Like It, from Romeo and Juliet to The Comedy of Errors, this is one wild evening that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.
This is visceral, energetic, physical theatre at its best, in a heart-rattling rollercoaster including the world record for the shortest-ever performance of Hamlet, clocking in at 43 seconds, as well as the fastest performance of Hamlet backwards, at 42 seconds.
