Displace Yourself Theatre

Displace Yourself Theatre We are an ensemble of theatre makers, musicians and therapeutic practitioners

Our work lives in the body 👅👄✋Have you seen any of our shows? They’re usually a series of moments you feel your way thro...
29/04/2026

Our work lives in the body 👅👄✋

Have you seen any of our shows? They’re usually a series of moments you feel your way through..

Tiny details stitched together… 🪡

Some soft, some sharp, some very silly...

You won’t always be told what it means.

A body reaching.
Holding.
Letting go.

We love words…
we just don’t rely on them to tell our stories

Our work grows from physical sensation
In movement.. in sound..
In the stuff you feel usually before you can explain it.

Not everyone has the same language…
but everyone exists in a body...

That’s where our stories usually begin

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If you’ve seen our work how would you describe it? We’d love to hear 🫶

Image 1
Food for Thought (2019)
Performer: Jennifer Nevin
Projection Design: Lenny Fabric
Photography: Tim Smith

Images 2, 3, 4
A World Without Death 2025
Performers captured : collier


b_k


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Why “Displace Yourself”? 🤔Because nothing changes if everything stays comfortable… and we held a quiet hope that things ...
28/04/2026

Why “Displace Yourself”? 🤔

Because nothing changes if everything stays comfortable… and we held a quiet hope that things in the world could.. they HAD to 💥

Many moons ago, our co-founders Jen and Mike were working on the border between Thailand and Myanmar with a community who had been displaced, people physically forced out of their country, rebuilding life from almost nothing.

Not long after, Displace Yourself was founded.

Returning to the UK, we felt a real disconnect. There was so little awareness in the media of the discrimination and ethnic cleansing we had witnessed. It was hard to make sense of.

We didn’t have answers, but we wanted to try and process what we’d experienced, and respond in the only way we knew how… through art 🎭

At the same time, we were aware that many UK theatre audiences at that time lived relatively comfortable lives, often far removed from these realities.

“Displace Yourself” began as an invitation.

To witness, to feel, even briefly, another way of living. Another perspective. Another human experience.

We were quietly hopeful that if more people were aware, something might begin to shift… though at the time, we hadn’t yet grasped how widespread forced displacement is, or how many lives it touches across the world.

Over time, the name has come to mean so much more.. especially through the body, through feeling, through human connection.. but this is where it began.

An invitation to step outside what we know,
and into something unknown… together 💥🫶

Photo 4: Eden (2015)
Performers: Jen and Mike
Photographer: Lizzie Coombs

Hello! 💫 We’re grateful to welcome some new followers recently so we wanted to let you know a bit about us! Often people...
27/04/2026

Hello! 💫 We’re grateful to welcome some new followers recently so we wanted to let you know a bit about us!

Often people think Displace Yourself started with theatre…

It didn’t.

It started with a feeling… that there had to be more than the way we were living.

More connection.
More honesty.
More space to actually feel something and really SEE each other 👀🫶

Years ago, we stepped away from the life we thought we were “meant” to live… we met some inspirational people from all across the world.. and everything we create now comes from that moment.

Displace Yourself isn’t just theatre. We create projects that invite people from different walks of life to come together, and come back to yourself.

✨ If you’ve ever felt that pull for something deeper… you might enjoy what we do ✨

We are building again 🔨 Yes, an actual yurt! 😆A handmade, round, slightly muddy, occasionally wind-battered space to gat...
27/03/2026

We are building again 🔨

Yes, an actual yurt! 😆

A handmade, round, slightly muddy, occasionally wind-battered space to gather, make work and reimagine what theatre can be.

We’ve always tried to question our roles as theatre makers. Not just makers of shows, but makers of heart led experiences 🌟♥️ among many things we are…

Hosts 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 and Travellers 🌏

Fire lighters 🔥and Dreamers 💭

Activists 💥 and Peace makers 🧘‍♀️

Set builders, tea makers, playful cheeky monkeys, risk takers, list writers, problem solvers, and occasionally… people who sit on a piece of wood and stare into the distance surrounded by chickens 🐓 (yes there’s lots of chickens at our new home)!

We want to create space for artists to dream, HOPE, and remember why they started in the first place… preferably with a few laughs and some fresh air 🌬️

Creating is a process. The final show is the bit people see, but we think the real stories are in the making… the people gathering, the things going wrong, trying again, putting the kettle on, carrying on. That’s why we’re putting this part here, to remember it, and to share it with you.

So we’re building…

A space. A way of working. A life that makes this all seem possible 💭

We’ll keep you updated ♥️

✨Displace Yourself Theatre 2025 ✨Without a doubt it was our most adventurous year yet (and possibly our wettest)! ⛈️Thou...
31/12/2025

✨Displace Yourself Theatre 2025 ✨

Without a doubt it was our most adventurous year yet (and possibly our wettest)! ⛈️

Thought we’d share some of our favourite moments:

🌟A three-year, biggest-yet project A World Without Death commissioned by and supported by and many brilliant partners

🌚 Performing on the roof of a truck during an actual lunar eclipse (of course)!

🪩 Dancing in the rain in a Morrisons car park in Girlington where people pulled up in their cars to watch

🌟 Sold-out shows in unlikely places with our first ever outdoor performance

🚛 Building a truck that carried an entire world

🏕️ Building a stunning yurt that will hold whatever comes next

🫀A community chorus that grew not just bigger, but braver, bolder, more trusting and we all developed our performance skills 🤹🏼‍♀️

📚Delivering our trauma training course with an awesome group of artists and producers for City of Culture and exploring care in community making

🧘🏻‍♂️Wellness workshops and rural retreats to soften and recalibrate

🫂 Therapeutic supervision built into all of our work

💕Chiropractor in rehearsals.. because bodies matter

🤱Supporting our Breastfeeding Director and her baby during rehearsals and making, art, life and community winning!

☹️ Saying goodbye to our Bradford city centre space

👶 3 beautiful Babies, 3 parental leaves

Slower rhythms, deeper care. Quietly radical. Occasionally chaotic.

With enormous thanks to our brilliant audiences and the amazing humans who made this all happen (too many to tag but hope you know how much we appreciate YOU)

including the team and all our partners, collaborators and communities who trusted the process and encourage us daily to keep doing what we do!

Onwards into 2026.. still unfolding, and co-creating places to belong 💛

📸 photos by various awesome folk x




Three years in a meanwhile space.. Borrowed time, limited resources, zero guarantees.and still people showed up, made th...
18/12/2025

Three years in a meanwhile space..

Borrowed time, limited resources, zero guarantees
.and still people showed up, made things, shared stories and built something REAL together.

We make work about displacement, so of course we fell for a space that isn’t meant to last.

Turns out belonging doesn’t need permanence.. it’s about who shows up, generosity, trust and HOW we make together.

It’s almost time for a new chapter..

✨Back at the Table ✨Remember this? Us. Outdoors. Sharing food, stories and a lots of smiles!This was one of our artist r...
12/11/2025

✨Back at the Table ✨

Remember this? Us. Outdoors. Sharing food, stories and a lots of smiles!

This was one of our artist retreats, the kind of day where laughter and deep chats happen in the same breath 🥲

Where being in nature reminds us to breathe, belong, and occasionally tease eachother for taking too much storytelling time round the campfire 🔥

After our epic summer of launching our new show, we’ve been quiet for a while (sometimes pausing is part of the work)
However we will be slowly returning… and dreaming… with the elements 🌦️🌈

We’re on the lookout for a beautiful bit of land in the Bradford district to build our next chapter: a yurt for stories, retreats, creative circles and community to be well, together.

Got a farm, field, woodland or wild corner you think might be the spot? Or know someone who might? please Tag them below or
💌 Email us at [email protected]

We can’t wait to host outdoors again, together.. doing what we do best: making art, making space, and making it up as we go ✨

🕯️ Walking the Line Between Worlds As a company, we’ve always found ourselves treading that delicate line between theatr...
31/10/2025

🕯️ Walking the Line Between Worlds

As a company, we’ve always found ourselves treading that delicate line between theatre and spirituality.

Our work often moves beyond words, through movement, breath, voice and sitting in circle, where something unseen begins to stir.

When we work with people from so many different faiths and backgrounds and in this ritualistic way, we often feel the presence of something deeper when we create.

Today, as many celebrate Halloween, we’re reminded how people across time and place have paused to honour the cycles of life, death and our ancestors.. not always at this time of year but often as seasons turn and the light shifts.

Around the world there’s several festivals with many names:

🍂 Samhain - Celtic festival marking the thinning veil between worlds
💀 Día de los Mu***os - Mexico’s joyful remembrance of ancestors
🕯 All Hallows’ Eve / All Souls’ Day - Christian time to honour the departed
🌾 Pchum Ben - Cambodian Buddhist festival of ancestor offerings
🪔 Pitru Paksha - Hindu fortnight of remembrance
🕊 Obon - Japanese Buddhist welcoming of ancestral spirits
🔥 Chuseok - Korean harvest and ancestor festival
🌙 Yemanjá Festival - Afro-Brazilian offering to the ocean goddess, tied to renewal and remembrance

Through creating a show about life and death, we find ourselves as always fascinated how many similarities we share!

Theatre making helps us make sense of the world, and what lies beyond!

If you’re celebrating this weekend, blessings to you!! 🎃🌙

World Without Death
📸 Photography by
🎭 Performers: .b_k
🎨 Designer:
💡 Lighting:

Do you know other faiths or cultures that honour this turning of the seasons?
Drop them in the comments, we’d love to learn more! ✨

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We just love this review from Mia Coe, about our recent performance of A World Without Death earlier this month 🤩 "This ...
01/10/2025

We just love this review from Mia Coe, about our recent performance of A World Without Death earlier this month 🤩

"This show is a truly spectacular storytelling performance, a wonderful combination of singing, dancing and aerobatics that flow almost indistinguishably between each other throughout its journey. The performers throughout the show were phenomenal. They played their characters so well, through dance, song and aerobatics, and each had a chance to shine. They also played to the audience well, involving us at every step of the way as they told their story to us and encouraged to make as much noise and dance as much as possible."

Read the full review here: https://displaceyourselftheatre.co.uk/2025/09/09/spectacular-storytelling-awwd-review

A big thank you to our wonderful partners for supporting this production: and Society of Dyers and Colourists

📷 Photo by
🎭Performer: .b_k
🪡 Costume:
💡 lighting: Ivan Mack

At Displace Yourself Theatre, we don’t just make bold, original productions like A World Without Death — we’re also a re...
24/09/2025

At Displace Yourself Theatre, we don’t just make bold, original productions like A World Without Death — we’re also a registered charity working alongside people who have experienced Displacement. Whether from their country, their home, or even from themselves, we offer long-term creative and therapeutic support while co-producing powerful, accessible theatre together.

Our work is made possible through the generosity of our community. If you believe in the power of creativity to heal, unite and empower, please consider supporting us: https://displaceyourselftheatre.co.uk/donate

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