Dunoon and Glasgow based theatre company Tenterhooks creates participatory experiences that celebrate curiosity, play and connection. In their latest show, Gaggle,audiences are invited to spend three days and three nights with three lighthouse keepers who work, watch and wait through every kind of weather in a non-verbal, highly sensory, stimulating experience. Combining slapstick comedy, circus pole acrobatics, live singing, tactile sensory props and an original musical score, this physical comedy theatre experience, presentedin association with Beacon Arts Centre, has been created especially for young audiences with complex additional support needs (ASN) and their families.
While created specifically for teenagers with complex ASN, Gaggle is also suitable for children aged five and over with ASN and has been carefully designed to welcome every audience member. The highly sensory production balances moments of laughter and energetic play with stillness and silence, allowing audiences time and space to engage, process and respond in their own way. Performers interact gently with audiences throughout, embracing every response and creating a shared theatrical experience where everyone belongs.
Gaggle was funded by Creative Scotland and developed in collaboration with young people at Riverbrae School, Linwood with early-stage research and development on the Physical Comedy Lab at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow with the production premiering at the Beacon Arts Centre in 2025 to outstanding audience response.
Current our dates are:
Friday 3rd July | Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock
Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th July | Platform, Easterhouse, Glasgow
Wednesday 8th July | Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley
Saturday 11th July | Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling
Sunday 12th July | Eastwood Theatre, Giffnock
Monday 13th July | North Edinburgh Arts
Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th July | Dundee Rep Theatre
Friday 17th July | Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
Further October tour dates to be announced later this year.
Irene Brown
Radio Summerhall Arts 