Royal Exchange Theatre - Backstage Tours

We are the North West’s largest and only full-time, text based producing theatre – commissioning, creating and developing original and ambition theatre in our unique in-the-round space, throughout our building, across the city and beyond.

This means the shows are made by our highly skilled teams and freelance creatives from scratch using a text. Therefore,whether we’re presenting an adaptation of a classic or new writing, your students will get a glimpse and insight into the whole process of making theatre.

You will explore our wardrobe, wigs, hair and make-up departments, where you may see costumes or prosthetics being made for an upcoming show. You will hear incredible facts about the rich history of not only the theatre, which was opened in 1976, but also the life of the building before this. You may meet some interesting characters during the tour, including our mascot Boris the bear.

As well as being informative, this new tour has been designed to be interactive and accessible, including a range of activities and opportunities to get hands-on with some of the elements that bring our shows to the stage. This will result in your students coming away with their own stories to tell.

For more information, please contact us.