TOURING MAY 2025 :
GUN TO YOUR HEAD
by Simon Jaggers
A DAKOTA COLLECTIVE production in association with HighTide​​
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Listed as one of The Independent’s 13 “Unmissable Gems”
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The Stagedoor’s Lyn Gardner’s “Pick of the Week”
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Lou Review’s “Pick of the Week”
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★★★★ Theatre Weekly
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★★★★ FringeBiscuit
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‘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
You probably haven't heard of teenage runaways Dakota and Bede yet. But you will.
They'll be all over the radio and splashed across newspapers - bigger than Thelma and Louise. That's the plan anyway. Gun to your head: what could possibly 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.
TOUR - MAY 2025 - EAST ANGLIA
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15th & 16th May: Original Projects, Great Yarmouth
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
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23rd May: Eastern Angles, Ipswich
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
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24th May: The Workshop, King’s Lynn
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
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27th May: Fisher Theatre, Bungay
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
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29th May: The Mercury Theatre, Colchester ​
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Free post-show discussion​
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30th May: Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft
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Free pre-show workshop at 1pm (16-25 years) + free ticket to show
1st & 2nd June:​ Horse Hospital, London
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Starring
Elizabeth Connick as Dakota
Elizabeth trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Film/TV credits include: Dalgliesh (New Pictures/Channel 5); Burn (Klara Films); Seed of Doubt (NFTS); Tumtum (BFI/Sourpuss). Gun To Your Head marks Elizabeth's stage debut.​​
Loris Scarpa as Bede
Loris graduated from the Actor Musicianship course at Rose Bruford College in 2021.Theatre credits include: Once in Concert (The London Palladium, Tokyu Orb, China and Taiwan Tour), Hide and Seek (The Park Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (The Mercury Theatre). Screen and Voiceover credits include: Sweetpea (Sky Arts) SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC), Doctors (BBC), Pin Cushion (BFI), Company of Heroes (Relic Entertainment) Loris is also a member of contemporary folk band, ‘Evolution of Fishermen’.
​​​​​Creative team
Simon Jaggers - Writer
Simon Jaggers plays have been performed at The Bunker, Theatre503, Soho Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Pleasance Theatre and VAULT Festival. He is personally mentored by the award-winning playwright Simon Stephens and is alumni of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Last year he was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize and shortlisted for both the Charlie Hartil and Untapped Award.
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Giacomo Esposito - Director
​Giacomo Esposito has staged work at Southwark Playhouse, Theatre 503, VAULT Festival, Omnibus Theatre and Pleasance Theatre. As a filmmaker he has made work for The Guardian and written and directed the award-nominated short film ‘Seen’. His latest film, ‘The Changing Room’, will be released later this year.
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Rosa Torr - Producer + dramaturg
Rosa Torr is a Norwich-based interdisciplinary writer and producer. She is associate producer of Collusion, and cofounder of Dakota Collective. Rosa is a writer and was selected for HighTide writers group. Her newest play is touring later this year.
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Sarah Calver - Movement director, www.sarahcalver.com
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Alys Macgregor - Assistant director, www.alysmacgregor.co.uk
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Shane Gill - Lighting Designer
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Tom Clutterbuck - Technical Stage Manager
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LANE Casting - Casting directors
​​FREE PRE-SHOW WORKSHOPS FOR UNDER 25s:
There is a free theatre workshop for 16-25 year olds with DAKOTA COLLECTIVE prior to many of the performances. 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 through the venue.
The workshop:
Part 1: Play, Playing, Plays- playing with a text, character and improvisation
Part 2: Building Worlds- Devising and movement
These workshops are open to all levels and based on our Inventive Futures toolkit, developed with support from Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
with support from HighTide, Norwich Theatre, Collusion, Original Projects, Eastern Angles, The Garage Trust. ​​​
Previously
GUN TO YOUR HEAD had a SOLD OUT run of six performances over the 14th – 18th Febuary 2023 in The Cavern at VAULT Festival in London.
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Check out past videos and photos of the run here.
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