Simple 8 is a London-based theatre company formed in 2004 by professional actors, writers and directors. They aim to produce innovative, original, ensemble theatre.

In 2006 they staged an adaptation of Les Enfants du Paradis. The Times gave it five stars and said that it was "A superb production and a new (newish) company possessing the skills, intelligence and dedication to create such a wonder". It was adapted by company members Dudley Hinton and Sebastian Armesto

Sebastian Armesto

-Television and film:Armesto played Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in the series The Tudors. He also starred alongside Jane Asher in the 2008 ITV drama series The Palace as the King's carefree younger brother Prince George. He then played the character of Edmund Sparkler in the 2008 BBC version of...

 (who also directed it).

In 2008 they presented The Living Unknown Soldier - about a soldier left an amnesiac at the end of the Great War. It was based on the book by Historian Jean-Yves Le Naour.

Their latest production is an adaptation of William Hogarth

William Hogarth

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...

's engravings The Four Stages of Cruelty

The Four Stages of Cruelty

The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth in 1751. Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero....

 that the company created in collaboration with the playwright Adam Brace

Adam Brace

Adam Brace is a British playwright. His play , performed in promenade, premiered at the HighTide festival in Suffolk before transferring to London for an eight week run in collaboration with the National Theatre. The play is about corporate soldiers and Brace wrote it after a tour of Jordan where...

.