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“The cast tear through the material like seasoned pros with the energy levels of a hyperactive toddler and it has a sheen of sophisticated stupidity that’s hard to resist.” (Rory Ford, The Scotsman) After a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rat House is back for two final performances! Cyclists can’t read anymore,...
Sonic detection is a framework for open-ended, collaborative intellectual and creative practice situated between sound studies, performance studies, and interdisciplinary writing, emerging from a decade-long working partnership between Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley. What began as a slowly evolving series of eavesdropping incursions on the east coast of the UK became an ongoing practice of...
Can the many stage adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein suggest attitudes and approaches to equitable climate change adaptation in Airedale? This question deserves to be addressed by a range of voices, as this event attempts to do. Our panel discussion pools evidence and knowledge from historical Frankenstein performance archives, contemporary theatre-makers, and the White...
Theatre Group Present Constellations by Nick Payne Directed by Hannah Gardiner-Hill and Naomi Poole The play follows Marianne, a physicist, and Roland, a beekeeper.. Marianne often waxes poetic about cosmology, quantum mechanics, string theory and the belief that there are multiple universes that pull people's lives in various directions. Nick Payne’s award winning play about...
'You literally set up the soup spilling! That's a major plot point!' Open Theatre present Martha Plays Mr Waddiger by Jasmine Morgan Five students desperately attempt to put on a decent run of The Lament of Mr Waddiger and his Most Wayward Son (a very real, very serious play) while chaos reigns backstage. Keys are missing,...
'I did the uni thing and now what? All I got from that was an expensive alcohol intolerance and two friends!' Open Theatre present Allium Lane by Bree Colclough On Allium Lane the four children, (or should we call them adults now?) make a great attempt at the first stages of adulthood. While one is busy...
'It's incredible, the human brain, how it can banish what you know and create a whole new story as though it were fact.' Open Theatre present Ruination by Sara Roche Iris grapples with a past he cannot fully remember and a book he dares not open. Haunted by fragmented memories and the shadow of a lost...
Leeds University Union present Duncan MacMillan’s Every Brilliant Thing, directed by Malachy O'Callaghan Every Brilliant Thing pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to be a child of a suicidal mother and the lengths we a re prepared to go to for those we love. Part truth, part fiction Every Brilliant Thing is...
We are delighted to welcome Professor Liang Sun from The Central Academy of Drama (China) for a public lecture on “The Development of Cultural Industry under China’s Theatre Cultural Policies.” Professor Sun’s lecture will reflect on her management practices with the Experimental Theatre Troupe at the Central Academy of Drama and review the cultural policies...
Leeds University Union Theatre group present Dinner by Moira Buffini Paige Janssen invites some friends over to dinner to mark the publication of a book, Beyond Belief, written by her husband, Lars. A succession of unusual courses are interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected guest, leading to some surprising revelations and, eventually...