Applause is committed to working with a wide range of artists, reflecting the diverse landscape of modern life.
This might be touring existing ready-made shows to community spaces, commissioning new shows for outdoor performance, or helping to adapt shows to work in a variety of settings.
Rural touring is unique, it offers the opportunity to tour your work to new audiences who might otherwise not experience these shows, providing an incredibly special atmosphere.
It also presents challenges with limited technical provision, and potentially long distances with no public transport to reach isolated communities.
Interested? Take a look at how to sign up to receive information about opportunities in the pages below.
Indoors
Our indoor programme tours ready to go shows – theatre, dance, children’s shows, music and storytelling to village halls, community spaces and libraries across our region. If you’d like to be considered for our next Indoor season click on the link below.
Outdoors
Every year we commission exciting specially created work for outdoor performance at rural fetes and festivals. To find out what we’re looking for click on the link below.
Inn Crowd
We work with the UK’s best spoken word and live literature artists to commission and tour shows to village pubs, breweries, cafes and bottle shops as part of our national INN CROWD programme. To find out how to get involved click on the link below.

Working with Applause was a massively positive experience. The Applause commission gave me producing, creative and marketing support as well as introducing me to ways of developing my ideas for the outdoors.
Joe Garbett, Doubles (Outdoors 2019)
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