Heartbreak aims to tell stories that inspire, entertain, challenge and help us come to a better understanding of human beings and how we can live together. We want our work to be the best in our field, collaborating with actors, designers, composers and crew to create a special and exciting experience for our audiences.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the roaring 20s, The Great Gatsby is served with a twist of iconic Heartbreak style.
A magically modern retelling of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Wonder With Grimm is an enchanted evening suitable for the whole family.
David Walliams’ best-seller, Mr Stink, is a heart-warming tale of an unlikely friendshipbetween 10-year-old Chloe and a homeless man. Open-air staple, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is up-cycled and rewired in this modernproduction with the environment at its core.
The Great Gatsby
Get your glad rags on and work on that Charleston! Join outdoor theatre experts Heartbreak
Productions for the 100th anniversary of the roaring 20s. Set at a garden party, complete
with live music, this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic will take its audiences on a
wild ride through Gatsby and Daisy’s romance. So pack a picnic and find your nearest venue,
the glitz and glamour of the 1920s awaits.
Wonder With Grimm
Join Heartbreak Productions for a very special open-air theatre experience this summer. A
modern retelling of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Wonder With Grimm is an enchanted
evening suitable for the whole family. Rumpelstiltskin, Simple Simon, Rapunzel, and Little
Red Riding Hood, are all performed by Heartbreak’s ensemble cast, using music, dance,
storytelling, and puppetry. To round off the evening, Heartbreak performs an original fairy
tale penned by their Find Your Voice competition winner, Kasper, a Y4 student from
Leamington Spa.
Mr Stink
David Walliams’ best-seller, Mr Stink, returns to Heartbreak’s summer catalogue for the first
time since 2015. 10-year-old Chloe and the housing-challenged Mr Stink forge an
extraordinary and rewarding friendship that takes them to the heady heights of live
television and Downing Street via a garden shed. The programme will include the winning
poem written on the theme of homelessness for Heartbreak’s 2020 Poetry Competition, and
most venues will also be collecting for Shelter at the performances.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Open-air staple, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, weaves its usual way through tangled lovers,
warring faeries, and hapless human beings… but as it’s a Heartbreak Productions
adaptation, it is set in an environmental protest camp. Heartbreak uses Shakespeare’s
timeless imagery to emphasise the importance of the environment, and the costumes and sets are all made from recycled materials. Gather your provisions and come prepared – the
faeries are as mischievous as ever and they love proving “what fools these mortals be.
