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LATEST NEWS

Updates From HQ

Welcome to the Emma Rice Company, and to our brand new website! 


We are still the company you've known and loved as Wise Children, with the same team, the same goals and the same dreams - we just decided it was time for us to get a bit more grown up. 

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A New Show For The Lucky Chance This Christmas

This year Emma adapts and directs a new show for Christmas in our Frome home at The Lucky Chance. Dylan Thomas' magical A Child's Christmas In Wales.

The show logo for A Childs Christmas in Wales

School's In – Malory Towers is Back!

The beloved production by Emma hits the road again for a UK tour next spring.

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Masterclass Series

We have an amazing series of weekend masterclasses running throughout October this year with some of the core Emma Rice Company team, including Ian Ross, Katy Owen, Simon Baker and Emma herself. 

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The Chase Continues

We're thrilled to announce that our production of North By Northwest will be heading to the US next summer!

The North By Northwest poster image of a man running from a crop duster.

"A poem to love and its madness" – Tristan & Yseult Returns

Emma’s beloved production of Tristan & Yseult returns to the UK in 2026 – nearly a decade since it was last seen.

Etta Murfit and Andrew Durand hanging in an embrace.
A portrait of Emma Rice by Richard Grassie

Emma Rice by Richard Grassie

The Emma Rice Company (formally Wise Children) is the theatre company created and led by multi-award-winning director Emma Rice .


We make ground-breaking work with exceptional artists and tour it across the UK and internationally. We run a unique professional development programme, The Wise Children Training Programme, nurturing a new and more diverse generation of theatre practitioners.


We’re also working to transform touring theatre in the UK, challenging outmoded models and discovering the creative spaces of the future.

Emma Rice Company is the new name for Wise Children.

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