The story of three families trapped in a waterlogged cottage on their summer vacation. The children are bored. The adults are at the bar. And yet something unknown bubbles under the surface.

This joyfully unexpected and dazzlingly original work inspires us to examine our relationship to growing up. An exquisite, funny, and moving story, Beginners reminds us that the adult we’ll become and the child we were stay with us wherever we go.

The play premiered in 2018 at the Unicorn Theatre, the UK's leading professional theatre dedicated to producing inspiring and invigorating work for young audiences, and quickly became the hottest ticket in London. Beginners was celebrated as “one of the liveliest and sharpest pieces of theatre you’ll see this year [written] by Tim Crouch, a wonderfully mischievous theatre-maker.”

Best enjoyed by ages 9-109
Run-time: 1 hour and 40 minutes | no intermission

Tickets: $35 Adult | $20 Student/Youth Tickets
$20 On-stage Seating (limited availability)

Accessible Offerings

Open captioned performances: April 27 at 2p + 7p, April 28 at 2p, May 2 at 7p, May 3 at 7p, and May 4 at 2p

Relaxed performance: April 27 at 2p with a pre-show sensory tour at 1:15p

Audio described performances: April 27 at 2p with a pre-show sensory tour at 1:15p
*To reserve an audio-description headset please email boxoffice@hedgerowtheatre.org or call 610-565-4211.

About the Playwright

Tim Crouch is an Obie-award winning writer and theatre-maker. He was an actor before starting to write and he still performs in much of his work.

His plays include Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and tour), Superglue (National Theatre Connections); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (NTS and Royal Court); Beginners (Unicorn Theatre); Adler and Gibb (Royal Court and tour); what happens to the hope at the end of the evening (Almeida); I, Cinna (the poet) (RSC and Unicorn Theatre); I, Malvolio (Brighton Festival and tour); The Author (Royal Court and tour); ENGLAND – a play for galleries (Traverse Theatre, Fruitmarket Gallery and tour); An Oak Tree (Traverse Theatre and tour), Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre tour) and My Arm (Traverse Theatre and tour). Directing credits include House Mother Normal (New Perspectives and Brighton Festival); I, Cinna (the poet); The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear (RSC); PEAT, (Ark, Dublin), Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore and Beginners (Unicorn Theatre) and The Complete Deaths (Spymonkey).

Tim created and co-wrote Don’t Forget the Driver, a six-part series for BBC2 which won Best Comedy at the Venice TV awards, 2019. Other awards include: Scotsman Fringe First (Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel), Off-West End Offie (I, Cinna (the poet)),Writers Guild of Great Britain, Best Play for Young Audiences (Beginners); John Whiting Award, Total Theatre Award (The Author); Scotsman Fringe First, Total Theatre & Herald Archangel Awards (ENGLAND), Obie Special Citation, Herald Angel (An Oak Tree), Prix Italia for Best Adaptation in Radio Drama (My Arm).

Tim is published by Methuen Books. timcrouchtheatre.co.uk @thistimcrouch