OUTSIDE THE BOX – A LIVE SHOW ABOUT DEATH
Liz is a performer, celebrant and award winning burial ground owner. Her unique insights and experiences have created a highly original and beautifully cathartic show, combining mercurial tales and miraculous truths, collected over the years from life’s finishing line.
Funny, wise and taboo busting; Outside The Box confronts the ‘Elephant in the room’ with grace and humour, asking its audience to embrace mortality and look on the bright side of life, with a weave of untold and surprising stories, a hint of history and some pithy commentary on the funeral industry (from one who knows!).
I loved this show! I can’t think of anything quite like it. Liz manages to talk about something that affects us all, but we never talk about. She makes it both every day and profound, and moves us to laughter and tears. She also empowers us, not in a wishy washy way, but with real concrete recipes for action. It’s a really useful show. She could be the Mary Berry of death!
Mike KenneyClosing The Box!
Outside the Box first opened at the Brighton Festival in 2016 before going to the Edinburgh Festival. It has since appeared in theatres, universities, hospice, medical schools, fields, community centres, bookshops, art galleries, museums, private homes and village halls. It has also been performed in the US. After over a hundred performances it closed in March 2026 to six sell out shows at the Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford. Thank you to everyone who came and made the final shows such a joy, including my fantastic expert speakers. Now we are working on the film! As soon as it becomes available to hire for individual or group settings we will let our mailing list know.
Join me for my next Dying Matters Week Event:
Caper Bookshop, Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 / Thursday May 7th / 7.30-9pm / £15/£10
Every year 1 in 30 children experience a significant bereavement. We cannot prevent this from happening so we need to feel able to face it with them and find tools to help us (including books!). In this workshop, Liz Rothschild is joined by Maxine Parsons, who worked for many years with SeeSaw, (www.seesaw.org.uk) working with bereaved children and young people. Stories, activities and resources to support navigating this territory. For carers, parents and professionals. Plenty of time for conversation and questions. A relaxed and informative session. Numbers limited to 15. This event is run as part of Dying Matters Week.
“A remarkably refreshing and important show, gently dancing on the line between playful irreverence and necessary solemnity” Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Festival 2016
“I’d like to see it performed in every Fringe Festival and every village hall in the UK!” Zelah Senior, Brighton Fringe 2016
“Incredibly uplifting and often very funny…delivered to the audience with compassion and understanding.” Swindon Advertiser
“A poetic and gently humorous performance that dispels our misunderstandings about the etiquette around death and reveals the possibilities and alternatives to convention and ritual, that may no longer feel true to our own lives and those we love. All those who work in Palliative Care should see this AND so should all those who don’t. Put it on your bucket list now.” Dr Anna Hume, Hospice Doctor
First day of rehearsals
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