Riding Lights Roughshod

Riding Lights Roughshod is a professional touring theatre company – created by Riding Lights in 1992 to concentrate on the grass-roots community touring which characterised the early years of Riding Lights itself – which annually reaches a live audience of around 65,000 adults and children. It has been acclaimed from Belfast to Brixton for creating powerful new pieces of theatre.

Formed in 1992 to meet the growing demand for Riding Lights’ work in the community, Roughshod tours from local bases in every type of area, from the East End of London to southern Ireland, from inner city Glasgow to the rural Forest of Dean, bringing a repertoire of shows and workshops to schools, churches, prisons, bases of the armed forces, the streets, town halls, cathedrals, arts centres, and even an occasional theatre…