stage@leeds Brochure: Spring 2012

stage@leedsSpring 2012

Theatre at the heart of campus

The Hungry Bitches

Facehunters

Wed 25 - Sat 28 Jan7.30pmStage One£8.50 (£6.50)

Join the sycophantic East London scene, where youth, freedom and cool hangs off the bodies of the ultra hip… Hungry Bitches return to stage@leeds with a beautiful story of love, loss, youth and how all things must come to an end.

The PAD (Professional Artist Development) programme provides professional theatre and dance makers with a rehearsal space, technical support and a relaxed creative environment in which to work. The scheme is in its second year and so far we have worked with Balbir Singh Dance Company, Red Ladder Theatre, The Paper Birds, Gary Clarke, Douglas Thorpe and Lost Spectacles. The programme is free to invited artists and runs from June to August each year.

stage@leedsProfessionalArtistDevelopment

YEP (the Young Entrepreneurs’ Programme), provides University of Leeds’ students with the opportunity to produce shows in stage@leeds. In the last two years we have assisted over a dozen new companies whose work has not only been performed at stage@leeds but has gone on to win awards and critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe and the National Student Drama Festival. The YEP programme allows students to produce shows with no upfront costs and with the full support of the stage@leeds staff and technical team.

For more information about the PAD or YEP programmes please contact:

[email protected] 0113 343 8731

Hi,Welcome to stage@leeds 2012. Our packed programme features a host of award winning shows. We kick off with ‘The Stage’ newspaper’s Edinburgh 2011 Solo Award winner Gerard Logan performing ‘The Rape of Lucrece’. We also have performances from award winning Leeds based companies The Paper Birds and DugOut Theatre. The Leeds theme is continued by Matt Rogers (formerly of Chotto Ookii) and his new company Uncanny Theatre with their debut work ‘Optimism’. In addition to a fantastic selection of performances we are thrilled to be supporting two festivals: ‘New Stages’ and the inaugural ‘Little Leeds Fringe Festival.’

For more information about our shows and how you can become more involved with stage@leeds please visit our website or email at the address below.

Steve AnsellTheatre Manager

Surreal, provocativeand very, very, funny.‘The Pollution’ - Fringe Review

stage@leedsYoungEntrepreneursProgramme

Thur 23 Feb7.30pm

Stage One£10.00 (£8.00)

Most people know when they’ve made a wrong decision. But what happens when someone is convinced theirs is the right one? ‘OPTIMISM’ is a twisted tale of desire and self worth told through the eyes of an idiot. Uncanny Theatre is a new company co-founded by Total Theatre Award winner Matt Rogers (Chotto Ookii Theatre Company) to create bizarre yet touchingly human stories with a darkly comic edge.

Gerard Logan

The Rape of Lucrece

Uncanny Theatre

Optimism

Mon 30 Jan7.30pm

Stage One£10.00 (£8.00)

£5 NUS

Following his triumphant, award winning run at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival and sell out international shows, Gerard Logan brings his award winning solo adaptation of William Shakespeare’s brilliant narrative poem to stage@leeds.

Edinburgh 2011 Winner‘Best Solo Performer’

You want to be loved. People love lambs. So... become a lamb‘Sensational.’ Sir Trevor Nunn

The Paper Birds

Thirsty

Mon 27 Feb7.30pmStage One£10.00 (£8.00)

Following a sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Leeds based company The Paper Birds return with ‘Thirsty.’ Based on our love affair with alcohol, The Paper Birds explore the stories and social repercussions of lost memories and gained traumas, bruised knees, uncontrollable laughter, urine stained beds and sore heads. ‘Thirsty’ looks to the faces and the voices of everyone who likes a drink and asks why, as a nation, are we so thirsty?

Mon 16 April7.30pm

Alec Clegg Studio£10.00 (£8.00)

An old man sits at the end of his life... An old man sits at the end of his life contemplating his possessions, his fortunes and the sound files on his nano pad...

Using three microphones and nano pad, ‘Ghost Track’ is a solo performance about Claire’s many ‘dads’, the complexities of the psyche and her left vocal chord. Written in collaboration with Gary Winters (Lone Twin) and co-directed with Alexander Kelly (Third Angel).

Claire Hind

Ghost Track****Edinburgh Fringe

Top 5 Theatre Recommendation’


PCI Production

New Stages 2012Skeleton Project/stage@leeds

NEWK‘NEWK’ is a platform for individuals or companies making contemporary theatre, dance and live art in Yorkshire. It is an opportunity to showcase new short performances, extracts of longer pieces and unfinished work. The platform is hosted by The Skeleton Project. ‘NEWK’ runs three times a year. Contact [email protected] for details on how to apply.

Thur 2 Feb7.00pmAlec Clegg Studio£2.00

The School of Performance and Cultural Industries presents two days of new writing, performance and poetry. ‘New Stages’ provides a platform for a wide range of original work by post graduate students together with keynote speeches from leading industry figures.

“For anyone with an interest in exciting new work, for diversity, energy and sheer audacity, new stages always delivers.”

Fri 2 - Sat 3 Marstage@leeds

£tbc

Wed 15 - Sat 18 Feb7.30pm


DugOut Theatre

Inheritance Blues“DugOut don’t just man the doors of the young Leeds’ theatre scene – they are slowly becoming the very foundations of it.”Lizzie Edmonds Fringe Review

LUU Theatre Group

Dysfunktionalby Olivia James

Elizabeth Saunders is intent on creating the perfect party to welcome her soon to be born Grandson into the world but her three daughters seem intent on spoiling the party. A satirical comedy focusing on the modern obsession with sexuality and celebrity reality itself.

Wed 7 - Sat 10 Mar7.30pm


dysfunktional

“For anyone with an interest in exciting new work, for diversity, energy and sheer audacity, new stages always delivers.”

The Hot Air Ballues want to show you the weirdest gig they ever played. What follows is an hour of live music and comedy

devised completely from scratch by NSDF-nominated

DugOut Theatre.


Art of Spectra

BoundariesIn an atmosphere inspired by the worlds of David

Lynch, choreographer, composer and company founder Peter Svenson leads an international cast

in a physical, expressive and dynamic performance that explores and examines Avgränsat (meaning

Boundaries). A rare opportunity to see highly acclaimed Swedish contemporary dance company Art of Spektra live in the UK Presented by stage@

leeds in association with Dep Arts .

Fri 30 March7.30pm

Stage One£10.00 (£8.00)

PCI Production

More Life

This is the Threshold of Revelation.2011 marked the 20th anniversary of Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’. An epic millenarian fantasy and a powerful voice for victims of the HIV and AIDS crisis, the play grapples with universal themes of identity, religion, politics, sexuality, and love.

This performance examines the original texts to question why ‘Angels in America’ is increasingly relevant, what it means to have your body turn against you, and why we ask for ‘More Life’.

Wed 14 - Sat 17 Mar7.30pm

Stage One£8.50 (£6.50)

Suitable for 14yrs+

LUU Theatre Group

Edgar & Annabel

by Sam Holcroft

Edgar and Annabel are the perfect married couple, living in an equally perfect home together. But is everything as it seems?

Amidst oppression and tyranny a couple struggle to hide their true identities. Blurring the boundaries between public and private self, ‘Edgar and Annabel’ brings into question relationships, identity, and the very nature of reality itself.

Thur 19 - Sat 21 Apr7.30pm



Do you ever get the feeling that you are being watched?

Prophecy, Ecstasy, Death, Reality.

PCI Production

Peach Blossom

Fan

PCI Production

Secret Hotel

‘The Secret Hotel’ is a gripping voyeuristic experience taking the audience into a hidden

world of ‘Do Not Disturb’, midnight swimming and the entwined lives of the hotel guests and staff.

Through an elegant, filmic and playful musicality, ‘The Secret Hotel’ offers you, the guest, a night

you will never forget.

Wed 25 - Sat 28 Apr6.00 & 8.00pm

Stage One£8.50 (£6.50)

A twenty-first century reading of Kong Shangren’s classical Chinese masterpiece written more than 300

years ago.

In this beautiful but heart-breaking romance, Kong Shangren’s story

of the rise and fall of dynasties, dirty power struggles and political

corruption is recounted through the love story of its two main characters.

The play’s poignant splendour, magnificent style and its profound

sentiments are breath-taking.

Wed 9 - Sat 12 May7.30pm

Stage One£8.50 (£6.50)

Date Production Time Price Venue

January25-28 Hungry Bitches: Facehunters 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50) S30 Gerard Logan: The Rape of Lucrece 7.30pm £10.00 (£8.00)* S

February02 Skeleton Project: NEWK 7.00pm £2.00 A08 - 11 Little Leeds Fringe Festival Times t.b.c t.b.c S/A15 - 18 DugOut Theatre: Inheritance Blues 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50) S23 Uncanny Theatre: Optimism 7.30pm £10.00 (£8.00) S 27 The Paper Birds: Thirsty 7.30pm £10.00 (£8.00) S

March02 - 03 New Stages Festival Times tbc tbc S/A07 - 10 LUU Theatre Group: Dysfunktional 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50)* S14 - 17 PCI Production: More Life 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50) S30 Art Of Spectra: Boundaries 7.30pm £10.00 (£8.00) S

April16 Claire Hind: Ghost Track 7.30pm £10.00 (£8.00) A19 - 21 LUU Theatre Group: Edgar & Annabel 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50)* A25 - 28 PCI Production: Secret Hotel 6.00 & 8.00pm £8.50 (£6.50) S

May02 - 05 LUU Musical Theatre Group: Cabaret Night 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50) A09 - 12 PCI Production: Peach Blossom Fan 7.30pm £8.50 (£6.50) S

Venue Key: S = Stage One A = Alec Clegg Studio. *£5.00 NUS

HOW TO FIND USstage@leeds is located at the heart of the University campus directly behind the Student Union Building and opposite the Earth and Environment Building.

For programming, information on volunteering and general enquiries please contact the theatre office: 0113 343 8731

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Box Office: 0113 343 8730Online: www.stage.leeds.ac.uk

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stage@leeds Brochure: Spring 2012