Red Herring Productions

Red Herring is a performance company set up by Artistic Director Paschale Straiton to create outdoor theatre performances and installations, in collaboration with a broad range of professional practitioners. 

Paschale leads the creative process of each production working with designers, puppeteers, composers, stand up comedians, journalists - and often with the participation of students and community groups.

The company aims to create visually arresting theatre that has a highly intimate and interactive quality, which is experimental and provocative, while remaining accessible and engaging. The company presents work in public spaces, though sometimes unusual ones, and for free where possible in order to engage members of general public, and not just regular theatre-goers, in an immediate artistic experience.

Paschale is a director, performer, writer and maker with 10 years experience in devising theatre, having worked with a range of devising companies, including Company F.Z, Cartoon de Salvo, Shifting Sands and Forkbeard Fantasy.