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March 2025
Tayọ Aluko, the playwright bringing African stories to life, and Leeds this April
Tayọ Aluko is a Nigerian-born writer, singer, actor, and producer based in Liverpool. Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown – A concert in a play, written and performed by Tayọ, tells the story of George Coleridge-Taylor, a retired Sierra Leonean diplomat, caught up in the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999. George finds solace in the music […]
“I don’t know when that light switch moment would have come for me without Leeds Lads happening” – Q&A with actor Riana Duce
Actor Riana Duce was born in Leeds. She appeared in Leeds Lads (2016), a Red Ladder production written by Anthony Clavane and Nick Stimson. Riana is best known for appearing in films such as The Good Book (2020), Napoleon (2023) and Gladiator II (2024). When did you first work with Red Ladder and how did […]
