The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company, affectionately known as The Rudes, have been producing high quality professional theatre, in our own unique style, since 1999. We have a hugely loyal fan-base that come to see us year-after-year and we work across Southern England from Devon to Kent. Our shows are aimed at adults but enjoyed by all ages and are performed mainly outdoors, and sometimes, in a circus style 'Little Big Top'. We are best known for our outdoor summer tours and taking theatre into small rural communities. We do get into towns and cities occasionally where there are concentrations of Rudes’ fans but the ambiance of buses, car horns and drunks is slightly less conducive to poetic moods than the country where a worst case scenario is adjacent muck spreading, bell ringing practice or performing in a cow shed!

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Our casts are composed of experienced, top quality professional theatre actors and actor-musicians who have often trained in mime, clown or commedia. Most members of our team are also musicians, and our original live music is integrated with the action.