We are so excited to share that we are currently in R&D for our new show COW - Warning: May Contain Traces of Truth.

COW follows farmers Andrew and Ho-Yan, waiting for their child to be born, whilst navigating the growing fear of mad cow disease on their farm.

A human story based on real events, about truth, conspiracy, and love that asks: what’s more important, finding the truth, or finding someone to blame? How far would you go to protect your herd?

For this work we are supported by ACE, Lowry, Storyhouse Chester & Barbican Open Lab and we are hoping to continue developing it into a full production by putting in another ACE under 30K bid following this initial R&D period.

We are committed to ensuring that our work is accessible for Deaf and hard of hearing audiences. As part of this, we have been experimenting with projection mapping, captioning, and digital media as tools of access; as active, creative elements within the performance itself. It’s a process of testing, of trial and error, of allowing the technology to shape the work as much as the work shapes it.

As a multicultural company we tell stories that cross borders, linguistic, historical, and emotional. We want to use our 6 different practices, 6 different biases and 6 different cross-cultural points of view to shine a light on this issue and hold people accountable for the injustices experienced by the families affected.

As Sixth House, we are uniquely positioned to reframe this story with imagination, humour, and humanity, and to make an event from forty years ago feel urgently alive today.

Using verbatim theatre, original music, puppetry and movement, we aim to explore BSE, its impact on the United Kingdom, interrogate the long-lasting sociopolitical implications that followed and ask the question who is really mad? And what is really true?