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Gun to your head

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Upcoming Dates

Date: Fri 23rd May 2025

Time: 7:30PM

Location: The Studio @ EA

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Event Details

Age Guidance: 15+

Duration: 85

Notes: References to violence, references to sex, references to neglect and mental health

GUN TO YOUR HEAD by Simon Jaggers

“Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England’s wastelands. Gun to your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England’s ghost hours. It’s so beautiful it’s actually ludicrous.” – Simon Stephens, playwright.

It’s summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England. It’s a magical, frightening place, where youth tangles with death and dreams are forgotten. A razor-edged playground in which our tearaways can escape their past and imagine impossible futures.

In this riotous punk-play of pop culture, games and reddit folklore, the stakes keep rising. Gun to your head… what could go wrong?

DAKOTA COLLECTIVE are a multi-award nominated theatre crew telling transcendent stories in unconventional spaces. For May 2025, they are bringing their sell-out hit GUN TO YOUR HEAD on tour in association with HighTide, East Anglia’s foremost theatre company for new writing.

GUN TO YOUR HEAD had a SOLD-OUT run at VAULT Festival 2023.

One of The Independent’s 13 “Unmissable Gems”
The Stagedoor’s Lyn Gardner’s “Pick of the Week”
Lou Review’s “Pick of the Week”
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ FringeBiscuit

Free pre-show workshop

There is a free theatre workshop for 16-25 year olds with DAKOTA COLLECTIVE prior to the performance. Those who attend the workshop will be granted free access into the show that evening. There are a total of 10 places in each workshop- booking essential. Click here for workshop information.