We are moth sanctuary productions

Moth Sanctuary Productions is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary theatre company based in Cheltenham, led by artistic director Andrew Bate.

We performed our first show at the inaugural Cheltenham Literature Festival Lit Crawl in 2016 with ‘Edgar Allan Poe: Master of the Macabre’ – an immersive adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven which took place in a graveyard.

Since then, we have performed ‘She Plucked, She Ate’ – a physical theatre adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost; ‘Frankenstein: New Skin’ – a gender-swapped version of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel; an award-winning dramatised reading of Angela Carter’s ‘The Company of Wolves’; and our most controversial work to date, the play that can’t be staged, ‘The King in Yellow’.

Moth Sanctuary Productions was even chosen to represent Cheltenham Literature Festival on the world stage for the Virtual Lit Crawl in 2020, with our performance ‘Deep in Earth’ – an exploration of the themes of isolation and grief in the work of Edgar Allan Poe – being live-streamed across the globe.

We received a commission from the Everyman Theatre in 2020 to create our first full-length piece – ‘Usher: The Unbroken Line’ – which is currently in development.

We also produce an original podcast series ‘Penny Dreadfuls from the Moth Sanctuary’.