De Insomniis theatre

    “For those who don’t sleep because the world still needs dreaming.”

     

    De Insomniis Theatre is a London-based physical theatre company, telling stories from the edge of language, land, and memory. We create bold, sensory performances that explore the intersections of migration, climate collapse, and womanhood, not as isolated crises, but as deeply connected struggles for survival, dignity, and belonging.

    From the silence of a grandmother’s kitchen to the rising waters of a fractured homeland, our work is rooted in testimony, ritual, and resistance. We weave movement, sound, and generational memory into visceral theatre,  haunting, hopeful, and urgent.

    We collaborate across borders, disciplines, and languages to build stages where displaced bodies are not erased but made mythic.

    Themes we explore:

    • Diaspora and the politics of home

    • Intergenerational trauma and inherited silence

    • Feminist resistance across cultures

    • The climate crisis as both a personal and a planetary loss

    • Rituals of survival: food, body, grief, story

    We work with:
    Immigrant artists, climate justice activists, community storytellers, survivors, and thinkers who dream in more than one tongue.

    Women’s Circle

    An initiative of De Insomniis Theatre

    Women’s Circle is a community-rooted, soul-centred gathering space born under the umbrella of De Insomniis Theatre. It is not a performance, it is a return, a ritual, a reclamation.

    We bring women together — across cultures, generations, and languages: to connect, to listen, and to remember that we are not alone. In an often isolating world, especially for migrant and marginalised women, the Circle becomes a space where we can be witnessed without judgment and celebrate without fear.

    Here, we do not fix: we hold.
    We do not teach: we share.
    We do not compete: we become sisters.

    What happens in a Women’s Circle?

    • Story-sharing and oral memory

    • Gentle embodiment practices and breathwork

    • Collective writing and ritual-based creativity

    • Silence, song, laughter, and sometimes tears

    • Tea, warmth, and unhurried time

    Why we gather:

    • To reweave broken ties between women and their heritage

    • To create a healing space for immigrant women navigating identity

    • To challenge patriarchal and colonial narratives through sisterhood

    • To foster belonging without assimilation, and expression without fear

    Women’s Circle is open to all who identify as women, especially immigrant, displaced, and diasporic women living in London. No theatre experience is needed — just an open heart and a willingness to be part of something ancient and alive.