Rupture is Touring Live in March 2025
Book your tickets NOW!
“A strong and powerful performance, highlighting the flaws in the criminal justice system and how one person can evoke change.” Audience Member
We are delighted to tour our new one woman show, Rupture, live in March 2025. The tour will open at Live Theatre, Newcastle in time to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, before going on to be performed live in theatres, prisons and community centres across the North East.
Each show will be followed by a post-show panel discussion, creating space for industry professionals, experts working with women in the Criminal Justice System and audiences to discuss, debate and explore how we can advocate for change.
See below for our list of venues and to book your tickets NOW.
| Venue | Date | Time | Tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Theatre, Newcastle | 5 – 8th March | 8pm | Book Now |
| HMP Low Newton | 11 March | Closed Event | Closed Event |
| Gala Theatre, Durham | 13 March | 2.30pm | Book Now |
| ARC, Stockton | 14 March | 7pm | Book Now |
| HMP Askham Grange | 15 March | Closed Event | Closed Event |
| West End Women and Girls Centre, Newcastle | 16 March | 7pm | Book Now |
“Very Powerful, I think it speaks volumes and hits a lot of truth about women in prison…” – Audience member from HMP Low Newton
Rupture
Written by Catrina McHugh MBE
Directed by Rachel Glover
Co-created with the women from HMP Low Newton
There is a code blue. Destiny escapes onto a prison roof.
It’s bonfire night, the country is exploding and so is Destiny.
The award-winning company behind Key Change (New York Times Critics’ Pick) and Sugar on BBC iPlayer bring you Rupture. Created with women from HMP Low Newton, and based on true-life experiences, Rupture is their story about being mothers in prison.
Rupture was made in partnership with NEPACS and Criminal Justice, Social Harm and Inequalities Research Group, Durham University.
In the Durham University Parental Rights in Prison Project report, December 2023, Dr Kate O’Brien and Dr Hannah King have recommended “that funding be sought to enable Open Clasp to take Rupture on tour (including to men’s and women’s prisons) and filmed and used for training purposes.”
“I am always activated and inspired and enraged by an Open Clasp play. You are everything theatre should be.” Audience Member on Rupture
Cast and Creative Team
Destiny (cast) Narisha Lawson
Written by Catrina McHugh MBE
Directed by Rachel Glover
Illustrations by Kate Sweeney
Set and Costume by Natalie Johnson
Lighting Design by Sherry Conen
Composed by Nicky Rushton
Sound Design by Roma Yagnik
“Absolutely incredible. Powerful and insightful. I feel I know so much more about the experiences of mothers in prison. As always there is a spirit of fight, togetherness and love.” Audience Member on Rupture
In 2022 we began working with our partners NEPACS and Criminal Justice, Social Harm and Inequalities Research Group, Durham University, to explore the experiences of mothers in prison.
NEPACS is a voluntary sector organisation based in the North East of England. It has been delivering services to prisoners and their families since 1882 dedicated to strengthening prisoner family ties between custody and the community.
Dr Kate O’Brien and Dr Hannah King (Criminal Justice, Social Harm and Inequalities Research Group, Durham University) are Co-Directors of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme at Durham University. They are nationally recognised academics working with and researching the experiences of men and women in prison in the UK.
We have worked with a group of mothers in HMP Low Newton to create Rupture, which shares their experience and stories of being mothers in prison.
Funded by ESRC IAA Impact Fund Durham University and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.
