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Performances Archive
Olwen Davies | Fridge Logic
Thursday 1 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Phil Ormrod's Lies About My Father.
Thursday 1 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Phil Ormrod's Lies About My Father.
Phil Ormrod | Lies About My Father
Thursday 1 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Olwen Davies' Fridge Logic.
Thursday 1 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Olwen Davies' Fridge Logic.
Wendy Houstoun | 50 Acts
Thursday 22 March, 7.30pm
Wendy Houstoun returns to Leeds as part of Juncture, a programme of experimental dance performances curated by Charlotte Vincent.
Thursday 22 March, 7.30pm
Wendy Houstoun returns to Leeds as part of Juncture, a programme of experimental dance performances curated by Charlotte Vincent.
Michael Pinchbeck | The Beginning
Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Dan Canham's 30 Cecil Street.
Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Dan Canham's 30 Cecil Street.
Dan Canham | 30 Cecil Street
Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Michael Pinchbeck's The Beginning.
Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm
A double bill with Michael Pinchbeck's The Beginning.
Invisible Flock | Bring The Happy
Thursday 29th September, 7.30
Bring The Happy Invisible Flock, in collaboration with Simon Wainwright (Hope and Social), will attempt a gloriously extravagant portrait of happiness in contemporary Britain, bringing together over 1000 memories collected from the people of Leeds.
Thursday 29th September, 7.30
Bring The Happy Invisible Flock, in collaboration with Simon Wainwright (Hope and Social), will attempt a gloriously extravagant portrait of happiness in contemporary Britain, bringing together over 1000 memories collected from the people of Leeds.
Third Angel | What I Heard About The World
Wednesday 5, & Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm
A theatre piece with songs: one original, one karaoke. Join Third Angel and mala voadora as they attempt to describe the world. As they try to hold an accurate picture of the whole world in their heads. A world that seems to get bigger by the day.
Wednesday 5, & Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm
A theatre piece with songs: one original, one karaoke. Join Third Angel and mala voadora as they attempt to describe the world. As they try to hold an accurate picture of the whole world in their heads. A world that seems to get bigger by the day.
Action Hero | Frontman
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm
Poised on the edge of catastrophe, Frontman is a furiously loud, raucous reproduction of all the best gigs you never saw. Backed by an analogue synth and a tambourine, Action Hero enact a defiant, brazen, half-cut version of a faded comeback gig.
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm
Poised on the edge of catastrophe, Frontman is a furiously loud, raucous reproduction of all the best gigs you never saw. Backed by an analogue synth and a tambourine, Action Hero enact a defiant, brazen, half-cut version of a faded comeback gig.
Burrows & Fargion | Cheap Lecture and the Cow Piece
Thursday 17th November,7.30
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion bring to Yorkshire a rhythmic spoken performance set to music, in which the words, rather than the body, dance.
Thursday 17th November,7.30
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion bring to Yorkshire a rhythmic spoken performance set to music, in which the words, rather than the body, dance.
Invisible Thread | Plucked
Tuesday 22, & Wednesday 23 November, 7.30
Invisible Thread presents a unique and haunting visual piece of surreal adult puppetry, provocative and disturbing with a liberal amount of humour mixed in. Drawing on images from life and myth, Plucked follows a journey from beauty to beast and beyond.
Tuesday 22, & Wednesday 23 November, 7.30
Invisible Thread presents a unique and haunting visual piece of surreal adult puppetry, provocative and disturbing with a liberal amount of humour mixed in. Drawing on images from life and myth, Plucked follows a journey from beauty to beast and beyond.
News From Nowhere | my arm
Monday 11 April, 7.30pm
A startling play about the boy who holds one arm above his head and never takes it down. A story of bloody-mindedness, modern art and how the things we do when we are ten stick with us for life.
Monday 11 April, 7.30pm
A startling play about the boy who holds one arm above his head and never takes it down. A story of bloody-mindedness, modern art and how the things we do when we are ten stick with us for life.
Levantes Dance Theatre | Canape Art
Wed 4 May from 2pm, Thurs 5 & Frid6 May from 11am
Canapé Art is the performance of daily routine with a peculiar twist. A series of task are repeated, extended and submerged in sugar to playfully explore aspects of human behaviour.
Wed 4 May from 2pm, Thurs 5 & Frid6 May from 11am
Canapé Art is the performance of daily routine with a peculiar twist. A series of task are repeated, extended and submerged in sugar to playfully explore aspects of human behaviour.
Analogue | Lecture Notes on a Death Scene
Wed 4, Thurs 5 & Fri 6 May, various times.
In an intimate encounter between yourself and your reflection. You are both, simultaneously, the performer and the audience. Lecture Notes on a Death Scene is an unusual and atmospheric encounter for one person at a time.
Wed 4, Thurs 5 & Fri 6 May, various times.
In an intimate encounter between yourself and your reflection. You are both, simultaneously, the performer and the audience. Lecture Notes on a Death Scene is an unusual and atmospheric encounter for one person at a time.
Laura Mugridge | Running on Air
Wed 4 & Thurs 5 May various times
Part of Mezze festival. Performed in a vintage, yellow VW campervan called 'Joni', parked outside Northern Ballet, Running On Air is an award-winning show performed for just five audience members at a time.
Wed 4 & Thurs 5 May various times
Part of Mezze festival. Performed in a vintage, yellow VW campervan called 'Joni', parked outside Northern Ballet, Running On Air is an award-winning show performed for just five audience members at a time.
Faye Draper | Tea is an Evening Meal
Wed 4, Thurs 5 & Fri 6 May, various times
Part of Mezze festival. Come dine with us 'up north'. This Lancashire lass invites 13 of you to join her at the tea-time table. Faye shares personal experiences, gathered stories and a nice cuppa.
Wed 4, Thurs 5 & Fri 6 May, various times
Part of Mezze festival. Come dine with us 'up north'. This Lancashire lass invites 13 of you to join her at the tea-time table. Faye shares personal experiences, gathered stories and a nice cuppa.
Ellie Harrison | Etiquette of Grief
Thursday 12 May, 7.30pm
Everyone has lost someone, or knows someone who has. Etiquette of Grief is a step by step guide for how to deal with bereavement.
Thursday 12 May, 7.30pm
Everyone has lost someone, or knows someone who has. Etiquette of Grief is a step by step guide for how to deal with bereavement.
Stacy Makishi | There's A Hole In My Heart That Goes All The Way To China
Wednesday 18 May, 7.30pm
Part performance, part art provocation, join the fabulous and funny Stacy Makishi on an adventure that will make you laugh and break your heart.
Wednesday 18 May, 7.30pm
Part performance, part art provocation, join the fabulous and funny Stacy Makishi on an adventure that will make you laugh and break your heart.
Search Party | Growing Old With You
Thursday 26 May, 7.30pm
Search Party create a performance that matures over time, documenting and exploring the ageing process and ask you to grow old with them.
Thursday 26 May, 7.30pm
Search Party create a performance that matures over time, documenting and exploring the ageing process and ask you to grow old with them.
Michael Pinchbeck | The End.
Thursday 24 March, 7.30pm
The End explores endings and exits and re-enacts real-life events to investigate absence and loss. Michael Pinchbeck asks why we perform and how we will know when to stop in his last piece for theatre.
Thursday 24 March, 7.30pm
The End explores endings and exits and re-enacts real-life events to investigate absence and loss. Michael Pinchbeck asks why we perform and how we will know when to stop in his last piece for theatre.
Drunken Chorus | And Hell Followed With Them
Thursday 3 March, 7.30pm
Do you like scary movies? Inspired by Tobe Hooper, Chuck Palahniuk and David Lynch, packed with rhythms, repetitions and motifs from the horror genre, this endless nightmare of a performance will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Thursday 3 March, 7.30pm
Do you like scary movies? Inspired by Tobe Hooper, Chuck Palahniuk and David Lynch, packed with rhythms, repetitions and motifs from the horror genre, this endless nightmare of a performance will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Proto-type Theater | Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde Redux
Friday 26 November, 7.30pm
The electric meeting of infamous lovers Bonnie and Clyde is recreated as a fragmented tale of evidence, rumours and the surprising connections between love, life, death and doughnuts.
Friday 26 November, 7.30pm
The electric meeting of infamous lovers Bonnie and Clyde is recreated as a fragmented tale of evidence, rumours and the surprising connections between love, life, death and doughnuts.
New Art Club | This Is Now
Wednesday 24 November, 7.30pm
A nostalgic journey back to the 80s. Taking the very first 'Now That's What I Call Music' album as its inspiration, the show deconstructs the classic music of the era and discusses the very notion of nostalgia.
Wednesday 24 November, 7.30pm
A nostalgic journey back to the 80s. Taking the very first 'Now That's What I Call Music' album as its inspiration, the show deconstructs the classic music of the era and discusses the very notion of nostalgia.
Stan's Cafe | Tuning Out With Radio Z
Friday 12 November, 7pm
An extraordinary improvised show, set late at night in a radio station. Bring your phone or laptop to feed text, ideas, images and requests into the actors as they perform.
Friday 12 November, 7pm
An extraordinary improvised show, set late at night in a radio station. Bring your phone or laptop to feed text, ideas, images and requests into the actors as they perform.
Action Hero - Watch Me Fall
Thursday 3 December, 7.30pm
Exploring daredevils and our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, set on a DIY runway with a standing audience Action Hero are pushing the limit in the name of entertainment.
Thursday 3 December, 7.30pm
Exploring daredevils and our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, set on a DIY runway with a standing audience Action Hero are pushing the limit in the name of entertainment.
Proto-type Theater - Virtuoso (working title)
Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 November, 7.30pm
Set in 60's American suburbia three performers play games, perfect images for a television show that doesn't exist and vie for the spotlight. Playing with scale and using live video feed this is a multi-layered visual treat.
Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 November, 7.30pm
Set in 60's American suburbia three performers play games, perfect images for a television show that doesn't exist and vie for the spotlight. Playing with scale and using live video feed this is a multi-layered visual treat.
Trace Theatre - Once Upon a Something
Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm
Bright young things Trace Theatre present a story about telling stories - drawing on the familiar pitfalls of a fairytale with fatal consequences.
Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm
Bright young things Trace Theatre present a story about telling stories - drawing on the familiar pitfalls of a fairytale with fatal consequences.
Third Angel - Words & Pictures
Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 November 2009
A book reading for a book that doesn't exist (yet). A theatrical collection of short stories, obsessions, illustrations and digressions.
Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 November 2009
A book reading for a book that doesn't exist (yet). A theatrical collection of short stories, obsessions, illustrations and digressions.
Faulty Optic - Fish Clay Perspex
Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 October 2009
Master puppeteers Faulty Optic return with a collection of weird and wonderful characters in this surreal series of character studies and nightmarish ramblings from an unhinged mind.
Wednesday 21 & Thursday 22 October 2009
Master puppeteers Faulty Optic return with a collection of weird and wonderful characters in this surreal series of character studies and nightmarish ramblings from an unhinged mind.
Oliver Bray - Villa
Wednesday 14 & Thursday 15 October 2009
Oliver Bray from Until Thursday uses Chekovian storytelling to dissect British relations with the rest of the world. Audience members may be implicated in this funny one man show.
Wednesday 14 & Thursday 15 October 2009
Oliver Bray from Until Thursday uses Chekovian storytelling to dissect British relations with the rest of the world. Audience members may be implicated in this funny one man show.
Ridiculusmus - Tough time, nice time
Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 March 2009
Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide.
Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 March 2009
Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide.
Proto-type Theater - Whisper
Thursday 19 March 2009
Whisper is a visually striking, aurally immersive performance that asks the audience to question 'what is real' in a world of increasing technological sophistication.
Thursday 19 March 2009
Whisper is a visually striking, aurally immersive performance that asks the audience to question 'what is real' in a world of increasing technological sophistication.
Peggy Shaw and The Clod Ensemble - Must the inside story
Thursday 12 March 2009
Must is a poetic look at what it feels like to inhabit a body for a long time. Legendary New York performer Peggy Shaw excavates the memories and images that shelter in her joints and unearths the stories and music embedded in layers of bone and dirt.
Thursday 12 March 2009
Must is a poetic look at what it feels like to inhabit a body for a long time. Legendary New York performer Peggy Shaw excavates the memories and images that shelter in her joints and unearths the stories and music embedded in layers of bone and dirt.
Gary Stevens - Ape
Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 March 2009
Three performers are inextricably linked by one rule, to copy and ape each other's behaviour. Actions and words soon spin out of control as the performers continue to copy the copy.
Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 March 2009
Three performers are inextricably linked by one rule, to copy and ape each other's behaviour. Actions and words soon spin out of control as the performers continue to copy the copy.
Third Angel - Class of '76
Tuesday 24 & Wednesday 25 February 2009
After imagining who his infant school class mates had grown up to be, in the initial performance in January 1999, Alex Kelly now reveals the truth, turning their stories and memories into a living archive.
Tuesday 24 & Wednesday 25 February 2009
After imagining who his infant school class mates had grown up to be, in the initial performance in January 1999, Alex Kelly now reveals the truth, turning their stories and memories into a living archive.
NIE - The End of Everything Ever
Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 February 2009
From one of the darkest periods in European history comes an inspiring story of survival, love and hope.
Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 February 2009
From one of the darkest periods in European history comes an inspiring story of survival, love and hope.
LANWest - In Transit
Thursday 5 February 2009
In Transit is a touring project presenting the next generation of boundary pushers working in live art and contemporary theatre in the North West. This third year offers up a double bill which takes you from the Tardis to Las Vegas.
Thursday 5 February 2009
In Transit is a touring project presenting the next generation of boundary pushers working in live art and contemporary theatre in the North West. This third year offers up a double bill which takes you from the Tardis to Las Vegas.
Tim Etchells - Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first is a long free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast, explanation of the world. Written and directed by Tim Etchells.
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first is a long free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast, explanation of the world. Written and directed by Tim Etchells.
Search Party vs Leeds
Thursday 4 December 2008
Search Party are throwing down the gauntlet. They challenge you, the people of Leeds, to a marathon game of Ping Pong. For six hours Search Party will be accepting challenges from anyone who wants a game. Are you up to the challenge?
Thursday 4 December 2008
Search Party are throwing down the gauntlet. They challenge you, the people of Leeds, to a marathon game of Ping Pong. For six hours Search Party will be accepting challenges from anyone who wants a game. Are you up to the challenge?
Cupola Bobber - The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment
Tuesday 25 & Thursday 26 November 2008
With an eye on vaudeville, the night sky, and the note, "If I die, my knowledge may die with me": this show investigates distance - both real and felt - while considering what it is to look at the night sky.
Tuesday 25 & Thursday 26 November 2008
With an eye on vaudeville, the night sky, and the note, "If I die, my knowledge may die with me": this show investigates distance - both real and felt - while considering what it is to look at the night sky.
News From Nowhere - ENGLAND
Thursday 6 & Friday 7 November 2008
A performance for galleries, ENGLAND is the story of a search for a new heart. It's a story of two lovers, about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost.
Thursday 6 & Friday 7 November 2008
A performance for galleries, ENGLAND is the story of a search for a new heart. It's a story of two lovers, about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost.
Lone Twin Theatre - Daniel Hit By A Train
Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 October 2008
Lone Twin Theatre stage 53 true stories of the ultimate self-sacrifice. In each story a person loses their life in the attempt to save the life of another. Inspired by the Watts Memorial of Heroic Deeds, in Postman's Park in the City of London.
Wednesday 29 & Thursday 30 October 2008
Lone Twin Theatre stage 53 true stories of the ultimate self-sacrifice. In each story a person loses their life in the attempt to save the life of another. Inspired by the Watts Memorial of Heroic Deeds, in Postman's Park in the City of London.
The Post Show Party Show
Thursday 23 October 2008
Michael Pinchbeck works with his parents - Tony and Vivienne - to recreate the post-show party where they met in 1970 after an amateur dramatic version of The Sound of Music. She was a nun. He was a Nazi.
Thursday 23 October 2008
Michael Pinchbeck works with his parents - Tony and Vivienne - to recreate the post-show party where they met in 1970 after an amateur dramatic version of The Sound of Music. She was a nun. He was a Nazi.
Stacy Makishi - Stay!
Thursday 16 October 2008
Film noir collides with Pet Rescue in this hilarious examination of co-dependence, malicious domination and the subversion of the natural order. With inspiration from the painter Paula Rego, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Lassie Come Home.
Thursday 16 October 2008
Film noir collides with Pet Rescue in this hilarious examination of co-dependence, malicious domination and the subversion of the natural order. With inspiration from the painter Paula Rego, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Lassie Come Home.
