"This is how you do site specific theatre, this is how you make historic spaces work and this is how you entertain audiences."

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Award Winning British Playwright Deborah McAndrew

Deborah is a British playwright writing original work and classic adaptions for theatres and companies around the country.

She is joint Artistic Director of the Stoke-on-Trent-based Claybody Theatre Company.

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COMING UP in 2026

A new adaptation of the classic Arthurian legend, based on the 14th Century poem

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

A Claybody Theatre Production

Directed by Conrad Nelson

Fri 4 Dec – Sun 20 Dec

THE DIPPING HOUSE, Stoke-on-Trent

It’s Christmas in Camelot and the King’s nephew is to be Knighted on New Year’s Day. It’s a time of celebration, but when a strange, supernatural visitor interrupts the feast, the young Knight makes a deadly bargain and begins a dangerous quest.

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PREVIOUSLY IN 2026

Deborah's smash hit adaptation of Arnold Bennett's classic comic thriller on tour!

The highly successful 2025 production is remounted for a short run at The Dipping House, Stoke-on-Trent, before heading out on tour.

A Claybody Theatre production in association with New Vic Theatre

Directed by Conrad Nelson

Nella Racksole wants steak and beer for her birthday treat, but these are not on the menu of the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel – so her American Railroad Millionaire father obligingly buys the chef… the kitchen… the entire hotel.

However, The Grand Babylon is not all it seems, and Theodore Racksole soon discovers there’s more than a juicy steak on his plate – with kidnapping and murder for starters!

A riotous evening out!