About Creation

Award-winning Creation Theatre is Oxfordshire’s largest producing theatre company. Celebrating our 30th birthday this year, we have spent the last 30 years specialising in classic texts in unusual locations, bringing stories we know and love to life, performing in extraordinary spaces. From the United Reformed Church in Summertown, to the MINI car plant, The Bodleian Library, Oxford’s historic Covered Market, The Westgate Shopping Centre and Blackwell’s Bookshop.

Creation Theatre moved into the digital space in 2020, mastering the online stage we have become pioneers in broadcasting live performances online. In lockdown Creation made a body of digital work, creating the “Auditorium” Digital Platform with Innovate UK Sustainable Innovation Funding and going on to win OnComm’s “Best Platform” award for “Alice: A Virtual Themepark” a co-production with Big Telly Theatre and Charisma Entertainment. They made 13 digital shows in lockdown, playing to audiences world-wide. Creation has continued to nurture a strand of innovative online work post-pandemic, with an Antigone playing out in a zoom press conference, and a long-form adaptation of Austen’s epistolary novel, Lady Susan.

With our spectacular education programme, Creation Theatre have inspired hundreds of children annually, with our termtime and holiday workshops growing in popularity. It is a true triumph to watch the younger generation of Creation grow in confidence and talent.

At the heart of Creation Theatre is creativity, adventure and community. We work closely with our local community, hosting Poetry Nights at the URC in Summertown, and engaging in social events such as the Burns Night at The Story Museum whilst doing what we do best, creating unforgettable pieces of theatre. Some of our recent productions include: The Nutcracker (The North Wall, December 2025), Sherlock in Summertown (Summertown, September 2025), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wolfson College Cricket Ground, July – August 2025) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (London Library & Fusion Arts, June 2025).

“Creation Theatre are leading the creative response to Covid-19 through their strikingly innovative use of digital performance tools to perform live interactive theatre. Their digital shows combine technological wizardry with human warmth, with audiences from across the country and the world joining in a life-affirming experience of enjoying live theatre together in a virtual space.”  

Professor Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter

Best Theatre to Watch List

Time Out New York

“Your kids will love it!” 
Alice | A Virtual Theme Park – Digital Theatre, 2020

NBC’s Today show

“Magical and awakens our imagination”
The Tempest Live, created with Big Telly 

Front Row BBC Radio 4
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