Touched – Alma Tavern Theatre

Pilots Thumb Theatre Company comes to the Alma Tavern Theatre this summer with their new production of Touched.

The Devon based theatre company are performing in Bristol for the first time as part of a new tour.

Touched was originally written by Danny Strike inspired by a short play by Laura Quigley. It’s been adapted and rewritten by Beth Scott-Hewlett.

Britain didn’t collapse overnight—it slowly came apart. Jobs disappeared, trust eroded, and people stopped looking each other in the eye. Then the Urban Regeneration Programme arrived. Not a revolution. Just a system that slipped quietly into people’s lives and called itself order.

Some welcome it. Some fear it. Most are simply trying to survive it.

In a world designed to keep everyone apart, they find something rare: connection. Not quite love or friendship. More like the quiet ache of being altered by another person.

The Programme claims it can fix society. But to fix something, you often must strip it down—remove the messy, human parts first: fear, pain, hope, longing. The need for one another. And if we lose those things, what’s left of us?