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You enter a costume shop. People arrive as themselves and leave as someone else. Here there is no distinction between author and character. That boundary has been crossed. Wandering voices bring together fragments of longing and desire, stitching them together into a journey through love. And there, in the quiet, you hear your own voice...
How do you forge a self when the world wants you to be normal? This May, first year students present “Why Be Happy?”, a daring 60-minute musical weaving together the life and fiction of groundbreaking author Jeanette Winterson. Adapted from “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” and “The PowerBook”, the production interlaces five narrative threads:...
An original performance devised by Level One Theatre and Performance students from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries. It’s an evening in mid-May. We’re In a cab on the way to the theatre. We’re not too sure about what we’re going to see, apparently, it’s ‘experimental’, based on a book, and frankly, we’re more...
What happens when we accept the absurdity of human life and explore our world through connection? This movement-based, design-led performance unfolds within a self-contained biome. Two creatures transform through their life cycles, shaped by the passage of time. The environment will evolve, reconfiguring perspectives on the everchanging world of Terrarium.
This performance draws on real conversations and shared testimonies to examine how girls and women are shaped and reshaped by the worlds they move through. In a deliberately safe and playful creative space, a group of girls dress up, dress down, and speak back to expectations placed on female bodies, behaviour, and voice. Through lived...
Anton Chekhov’s short stories, with their piercing exploration of human frailty and societal constraints, form the backbone of “Behind Closed Curtains” (2025), a performance that interweaves five tales into a cohesive critique of power, illusion, and disillusionment. By adapting “The Chorus Girl”, “An Upheaval”, “A Tragic Actor”, “The Jeune Premier”, and “Volodya Returns”, the production...
Anthropocenes: meaning humans are having such a big impact on the Earth — through things like pollution, climate change, deforestation, and building cities — that it's actually changing how the planet works, just like past natural events. Uncle Vanya, written by Anton Chekhov, tells the story of a disheartened man who has devoted his life...
Level 1 students in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries present a devised immersive experience based on Chekhov's final play. Join us in the tranquil Ranevskaya family estate, where the cherry blossom blooms and memories of the places we hold dear are brought to life. But the threat of loss and destruction looms. Things...
Thurs 25th May: 12pm & 3pm Fri 26th May: 12pm Stage One - Free Taking My Love With Him is a Level One BA(Hons) Theatre and Performance production, adapted from Malachi Whitaker’s collection of Bradford tales set in the 1930s. Malachi Whitaker has been described as "the Bradford Chekhov" and this anthology of her short...
Thur 18 May 3:00pm Fri 19 May 11:00am & 2:30pm Stage One £Free An adaption of the series of short stories entitled The Crystal Fountain by Malachi Whitaker about 1920s Bradford. A production by our Level One Theatre & Performance students. ‘X’ is the title we have chosen for our performance response to the work...