Driftwood

This production first toured to rural venues in 2024 and was adapted for mid-scale theatres for a further tour in 2025. The live capture was Finalist for the Offie’s Best Online Production.

An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging.

ThickSkin and Pentabus are two of the UK’s most prominent theatre companies. Joining forces to present Driftwood, by former Bruntwood Prize Winner, Tim Foley.

Directed by a stellar team, Elle While (The Globe’s Hamlet, West End revival The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Neil Bettles (How Not To Drown, Disney’s Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Frantic Assembly’s The Unreturning), this play perfectly balances a moving and at times funny story in a physical and visually striking production.

Pentabus is the nation’s rural theatre company, the only professional theatre company in the UK whose vision is singularly rural. ThickSkin is reinventing theatre for the next generation. Reimagining what theatre can be and looking to share human stories through quality, future-facing, multi-disciplined formats, developing 360° artists of the future for a hybrid world where physical and digital collide in more ways than ever before.