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curious directive: Black Sheep

Name: curious directive: Black Sheep
Start: 2025-10-21T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Lowry

A curious directive production, developed with the support of the National Theatre Generate Programme.

Tue 21 Oct 2025 7:30PM

Tue 21 Oct 2025

7:30PM

Aldridge Studio

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It’s Easter weekend on the Carter family’s farm.

In the fields, the soil is dying.

In the shed, lambing season is in full swing.

In the village church, a secret love is blooming.

In the front seats of a rusty transit van, a brutal revenge is plotted.

And around the kitchen table, the extended Carter family struggle to face the future.

Black Sheep is a contemporary psalm about rural life, a razor-sharp account of the dilemmas facing generations of farming families.

Reviews

‘Super theatre with all synapses firing’ – The Guardian

‘curious directive are theatre pioneers’ – The Daily Telegraph

curious directive is a critically-acclaimed theatre company based in Norwich who make emotionally charged, science-led theatre. Black Sheep was devised in collaboration with 12 Norfolk Farmers and developed from a sold-out run of showings at the company's home venue in 2024.

A curious directive production, developed with the support of the National Theatre Generate Programme.

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