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Bright Sparks Theatre Arts presents: Where the Magic Happens
Thursday 8th June at 1.30pm Friday 9th June at 1.30pm and 7.30pm Stage One £Free “A young man leaves home to go on an adventure and seek his fortune. What will he find? Will he ever return? An enchanting tale of the imagination, of fantastical visions, beliefs; and of fairies at the bottom of the…
When Ordinary Citizens Become Activists: Feminist Responses to Gender Violence during the Egyptian Revolution
When Ordinary Citizens Become Activists: Feminist Responses to Gender Violence during the Egyptian RevolutionPart of the AHRC-funded project Ordinary Citizenship Tuesday 13th June 2023, 4-6pmAlec Clegg Studio, stage@leeds On 13th June, the University of Leeds will host Yasmin El-Rifae, the author of Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution. In conversation with Sahla Aroussi and Maša…
The Business Confucius Institute presents: Behind the Curtained Door
Wednesday 14 June 202318:00 Stage One £5 Drinks reception from 17:00 Play 18:00 – 19:15 Followed by Q&A with the playwright Behind the Curtained Door follows three Chinese women of different generations whose friendships prove to be stronger than the lies and betrayals they face together. In a run-down flat in Oldham, Ah Luk is…
Scenes Unseen Vol. 3
Scenes Unseen Vol. 3 Thurs 15th June Alec Clegg Studio 7:30pm £5 Scenes Unseen is a regular showcase from Look Sharp Theatre, stage@leeds’ Associate Artists! The night provides the opportunity for performers, writers and directors to perform new writing and test their works in progress in front of a live audience at stage@leeds. Come along…
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Professor George Rodosthenous Inaugural Lecture
Professor George Rodosthenous Inaugural Lecture – 7th June 2023, at 4:00 p.m. in Stage One, stage@leeds.His inaugural lecture titled Adaptation as Directorial Process: Contemporary Approaches to the Greek Classics and Musical Theatre will be followed by a drinks reception. George Rodosthenous is Professor of Theatre Directing and Deputy Head of School at the School of…
OT x TG Fringe!
Fri 2nd June 6:00pm – 9:30pm stage@leeds £5 Open Theatre & Theatre Group present their end of year Fringe Festival! Come along for any or all of the performances taking place in Alec Clegg and our Foyer. See our celebration of theatre from a collection of wonderful theatre makers. Alec Clegg:6pm – Every Brilliant Thing…
ALMA Y MUERTOS by Daniela Portillo Cisterna
ALMA Y MUERTOS by Daniela Portillo CisternaDATE: 26/05/2023 – 1PM – £Free Walking tour & performance Meeting point School Entrance PCI, University of Leeds. Everyone attending is asked to bring a mobile phone and headphones/earphones. Creation, Scenic Design and General Direction: Daniela Portillo Cisterna General Production: Cristóbal Ramos Pérez Creation of Handicrafts: Alba Cisterna Huerta…
Taking My Love With Him
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…
The Silenced Screams
by Arathi Suresh Fri 19th May 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30 Alec Clegg £Free The Silenced Screams is an audio-documentary exhibition based on the testimonies of the female survivors of Boko Haram. This verbatim experience aims to elevate these narratives from statistics to stories. As an intimate sonical experience, this performance invites all to ponder deeper…
X Stories of Love, Longing and Loss
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…
Intercultural Shakespeare
Fri 12th May 5:30 – 7:30 Alec Clegg £Free Come and see our Year 3 Theatre and Performance students’ refreshing and vivid intercultural interpretations of scenes from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘King Lear’. Expect a mid-West USA barn dance where Lear divides up his kingdom and find out how women’s rights in Poland relate…
Dead Cats
In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse…
The Dirt
The Dirt is a very funny (and also pretty sad) solo performance that explores how the climate emergency has changed the way we imagine the future. Marianne Tuckman uses her signature combination of voice, movement, and text to bring this pulsing tragicomedy to life. In exactly the moment that it was predicted, the climate emergency has…
Professor Joslin McKinney Inaugural Lecture
Joslin McKinney is programme leader for the Masters in Performance Design in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries. She originally trained and worked as a theatre designer and her research deals with how scenography – design for and as performance – performs. Traditionally, scenography has been considered a craft-based and marginal discipline within theatre…