Hinterland is a newly formed theatre company and CIC. We take our subject matter which is often political with a small ‘p’ seriously whilst not taking ourselves too seriously and make bold theatre unafraid of asking difficult questions. We are democratic in the way in which we make work and the audiences we want to reach. At the core of our practice is a desire to reconnect with those that have taken pause or left the industry and to engage a strong sense of complicité and resonance with our audiences.

Actors and creatives working with Hinterland are intergenerational and always include female identifying makers in their 40s to 60s, an age demographic in the arts where women in particular have become increasingly ‘invisible’. Programming seasons typically include one visual art form (installation, film, exhibition), a devised/verbatim play,  a new writing commission and a radical reimagining of a classic or historic text.

In our inaugural year we brought a revival and reworking of ‘Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure?’ co-produced by Hinterland + Untethered, directed and written by co-founder and artistic director Sam Holland-Bunyan, performed and co-written by Genevieve Labuschagne and designed by Tabby Bunyan, to The Coronet Theatre Notting Hill, Camden Fringe and the Etcetera Theatre Women Writers’ Festival, and a new play about climate change ‘Justine Stops Oil’ directed by Sam Holland-Bunyan, performed by Hinterland co-founder and resident performer Lehla Eldridge and written by Louis Catliff, to the Glitch, London (Vaults) in September. The plays received ★★★★ and ★★★★★ reviews and ‘AILMMOJMF?’ was selected as an Offies Assessors Choice and nominated for a London Pub Theatres Standing Ovation Award (Finalist). Both shows will have London runs in 2026 and Hinterland + Untethered has launched a campaign to take ‘AILMMOJMF?’ to Edinburgh Fringe in 2026.

A new play ‘EAT’ by Hinterland co-founder and resident writer Kate Scott directed by Sam Holland-Bunyan had a rehearsed reading in November 2025 at the beautiful Dorset theatre The Lyric in Bridport. Cast Holly Cassidy (Paper Cinema), James Coward (Sky Arts’ Urban Myths), Mel Hudson (BBC, Manchester Library Theatre), Ashley O’Brien (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester) and Jay Villiers (National Theatre, RSC, West End). Hinterland are exploring opportunities for a London run of the play in 2027. In Autumn 2026 at the Bloomsbury Festival ‘Detritus’ will focus on the stories of a ’lost’ generation of women.

Hinterland will endeavour to tell all of these stories with grace, physical inventiveness, irreverence and great dollops of humour.

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