Who we are

Heroica Theatre Company (formerly Square Peg Productions, founded 2005) champions the achievements of maverick women.

The experience of a Heroica production is unique. Each play event illuminates the life of a secret heroine, celebrating a woman of great achievement, often a maverick and usually unsung. It also reimagines the relationships between history and the present day, and between a story and the place in which an audience watches it unfold.

For Heroica Theatre Company – based in the Pennines and operating all over the UK – location and environment provide much more than a backdrop to the action. Every Heroica event offers audiences a completely fresh engagement with a place, be it previously known to them or not. And the promenade style of performance ensures that, as audiences discover the previously hidden lives of history’s women, they simultaneously find the hidden corners of extraordinary buildings or outdoor spaces.

With Heroica you won’t just watch as the story unfolds, you’ll taste and touch it too. This is theatre that genuinely collaborates with its audience, taking you on a journey, often outdoors, always in unusual spaces, and inviting you to roll up your sleeves and engage with activity along the way.

Our Performers

Irene Allan

Mike Hugo

Olwen May

Kenny Blyth

Emma Kearney

Rayyah McCaul

Rob Garrett

Pauline Lockhart

Ashley Smith

Shenagh Govan

John Kielty

Previous Directors

Marilyn Imrie

Wendy Seager

Board of Trustees

Amanda Dalton (chair) - writer, poet and playwright, Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and former director of theatre engagement at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester
Roger Standen - former teacher of art and design, founder and chief executive of Design Dimension and currently Chair of ACDC at Dean Clough Halifax
Bob Doyle (treasurer) - career background in finance and strategic management
Rachel Doyle-Richards - teacher of drama, and community and college theatre director

Heroica Theatre Company is a Registered Charity (number 1162839)