Slackline is Surfing into Edinburgh!
We’re so excited to be the Edinburgh Fringe producers for Surfing the Holyland by Erin Hunter!
‘Oh, we have sharks here…but they’re not in the water.’
When a wide-eyed American moves to Tel Aviv, how does she navigate the wild waters of the Middle East? She learns to surf! With colourful characters, comedy songs and one woman’s search for chutzpah, this classic fish-out-of-water tale blends bighearted comedy, electrifying ukulele riffs and fearless physicality.
Surfing the Holyland runs 3-29 August (not 15th) at 2.55pm at Underbelly Bristo Square. For tickets and info, visit the
Underbelly or Edinburgh Fringe websites!
If you can’t make it to Edinburgh, join us for our London preview on 24th July at Drayton Arms theatre. Tickets now available!
What audiences have said about Surfing the Holyland:
Recent Productions:
The brilliant dark comedy by Gill Kirk, Skin in the Game.
I didn’t tell you to have a climate emergency panic!
You didn’t?
No! That’s a typo. I want you to have a climate emergency PICNIC.
It’s the near-apocalyptic near-future. The once-unimaginable has happened and it’s time for the world to be saved… by a game show host?
It’s up to the courageous Elizabeth Smuir to bring down a glitter-blazered game show host with dictatorship ambitions, the charismatic Danny McCree. But her blundered kidnapping by a troll and bee-god called Derek galvanise her: she’s going to save the planet and stop Danny becoming a dictator. Well, she thinks she is.
Skin in the Game is a hilariously dark, entertaining and disturbing adventure into a not-so-distant future where climate despair is met with tasteless “bread & circuses” light entertainment and abuses of power.
Whatever your feelings about our climate-future, the question is: Are you game enough to be in the audience?!
Skin in the Game is a new play by writer Gill Kirk, directed by Sarah Gain, brought to you by Slackline Productions, one of three plays chosen for the Studio at New Wimbledon Premiere Season!
Fri 12 Nov – Fri 19 Nov 2021
Skin in the Game
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
For more about our amazing Skin in the Game cast, click here!
Slackline Stories is back… with a twist!
Slackline Stories (Part Deux) will still showcase the best new short plays, written by female playwrights, directed by female directors, and featuring at least one strong female character aged 35+, but this time they will be written, rehearsed and ready to perform in just 24 hours!
Join us for the adventure and see what happens when six new plays come together featuring a group of brilliant playwrights, directors, actors… and very little sleep.
Slackline Stories is being held this year on 8th March, International Women’s Day 2020, to celebrate the amazing women that Slackline has worked with thus far, and to highlight their ongoing quest to redress the gender balance in the theatre.
Slackline Productions is a female-led company, championing the work of female actors, playwrights and directors and interested in work with strong roles for women aged 35+. In their first year as a company, they received an OffFest nomination for Best Short Run for their work at Camden Fringe festival and produced the highly-regarded first edition of Slackline Stories, featuring six female-driven short plays.
#wildwomenunite #EachforEqual
For tickets, click here! Please note- this link will take you to the Southwark Playhouse website.
Serpentine Golden Girls
We are also hard at work on our very first documentary!! This is the story of the Serpentine Golden Girls… a four-women cycling team who attempted to complete Race Across America- in just nine days- at an average age of 70.
We can’t wait to tell you their story!

Previous shows:
A teenager vanishes… a family is forced to face hidden monsters and terrifying truths.
Written by Christie Perfetti Williams
Hosted by The Cockpit
“Oh Selene…
Men and their towers
own the Earth
but borrow the sky.
Their very existence
a courtesy
of you.”
Two blocks west there are hipsters wearing man-buns and babies. And two blocks east
there are dog fights and drug busts. This is the line. This is the cusp. It’s urban America.
The Werewolf of Washington Heights is a New York City-based tale, taking place in the not-so-distant future. In turns a family drama, a political statement and a surrealistic movement piece exploring the story of the Wild Woman archetype, ‘Wolf’ tells of a teenager gone missing and a family gone mad.
Following its off-Broadway premiere, Slackline Productions brings The Werewolf of Washington Heights to London for its international debut. ‘Wolf’ explores the universal themes of war, immigration, deportation, racism, misogyny, terrorism, civil rights, and civil disobedience that we, as an international audience, can’t help but relate to… and find frighteningly familiar.
#wildwomenunite #thetimeisnow
From the New York production:
“…it will confront you with the consequences of apathy, and our human resilience to, if not prevent those consequences, withstand them.”
– Derek Schwabe, BroadwayWorld.com
” After the play ended, and I pulled my jaw back up off the floor, I resolved not to tell anyone who hasn’t seen the show what transpired… If a young woman is prone to rebel against her mother, and she has two very different mothers, amidst a deteriorating society, what might she be likely to do next?”
– Ed Malin, TheatreintheNow.com
Cast & Creatives
Imogene Tresidder …………………………. Eliza McClelland
Izzy Tresidder ………………….…………………. Kristin Duffy
Violet Corona ……………………………………. Christina May
Delia Bumba ………………………………..…….. Kim Hausler
Amira Kilo ……………………………….………. Noga Flaishon
Trudy Tresidder ……………………….……. Nesba Crenshaw
Junie Dorsey ………………………………………… Oyin Orija
Maggie Tresidder ………………………………… Iman Boujel
Nasreen Alvi …………………………………………. Zara Zafar
Written by Christie Perfetti Williams
Directed by Sophie O’Shea
Assistant Director Ivy Lamont
Lighting, Sound and Original Music by Simon Beyer
Photography by Andrew McGlade
Produced by Slackline Productions
Additional Promotional Assistance by Marcia Tucker
Previous shows:
Slackline Stories
Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway
London SE1 6BD
Date 26 MAY 2019

Running Time 100 mins including interval
Price £12.50
BUY TICKETS (will redirect you to Southwark Playhouse ticketing)
Slackline Productions presents its brand new new writing night, Slackline Stories, featuring short plays or excerpts by six emerging female playwrights. Free to explore any theme, the plays will tell a range of stories from the funny to the heartbreaking to the completely unexpected!
The audience gets the chance to offer feedback and see for the first time on stage this provocative selection of all-new female-led work.
Slackline Productions is a female-led theatre company championing the work of female actors, playwrights and directors and especially interested in work with strong roles for women aged 35+. We aim to extend our reach beyond the people working on our projects, establishing a link between creatives, audiences and the community.