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theatre · Friday 3 July 2026 · 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 7:00pm 
SIX: TEEN EDITION
At The Playhouse · 5-7 Artillery Street, Derry, Co. Derry
At The Playhouse · 5-7 Artillery Street, Derry, Co. Derry
Derry’s BRIDGE Springboard programme brings its annual showcase to The Playhouse this July, staging a youth production of SIX - the hit musical that re-imagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a pop concert fronted by the queens themselves. The cast is made up entirely of young emerging performers from the city, trained up over months for this run. If you want to see local young talent doing something genuinely ambitious, this is where to be.
SIX gives each queen her own anthem and runs as a competition to decide who had the worst time of it - part musical theatre, part pop gig, with big vocals and a lot of attitude. The performers have trained through the BRIDGE Springboard programme, a Derry initiative backed by the Arts Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, and BBC Children in Need. The £10 ticket price is a compulsory donation to BRIDGE, so you are supporting the programme as well as seeing the show. Multiple performances run across the weekend - Friday evening, Saturday lunchtime and evening, Sunday afternoon - so there is a slot to suit most schedules. The show plays in the 175-seat Playhouse Theatre on Artillery Street, a venue that has been at the centre of Derry’s arts scene since 1992.
The Playhouse is on Artillery Street in the city centre, a short walk from the Guildhall and the River Foyle. Derry is served by Bus Éireann and Aircoach from Dublin, and Translink Goldline from Belfast (roughly 1.5 hours). There is also a train station at Duke Street with regular Belfast services. If you are driving, Foyleside Shopping Centre has a multi-storey car park close by.
A July weekend in Derry is worth stretching out - the 17th-century walled city is compact and walkable, and the walls themselves form a complete circuit in under an hour. There is more to see in Derry and across Co. Derry.
Heading to The Playhouse in Derry? Derry has plenty more to see. Read the Derry area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.