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Playing The Joker
December, 1977 – it’s nine years since the infamous ‘Watersplash Final’ – and the once revered “Uncle Eddie” has withdrawn into the protective walls of the The Queens Hotel. Out front fanatical Rugby League fan Eddie Marlowe, grieving the recent loss of his father, is hellbent on speaking alone with his idol. Will he get […]
The Shed Crew
Red Ladder Theatre Company supported by West Yorkshire Playhouse presents THE SHED CREW A stage play in verse by Kevin Fegan; adapted from the book URBAN GRIMSHAW AND THE SHED CREW by Bernard Hare Hark back to the techno thumping, joy riding, glue-sniffing, dragon-chasing 90’s. Pounding beats, dirty streets, swirling haze and squalor – piss […]
The Life and Soul
Jim’s always been a bit of a character, just like his Dad, and spends most of his life between the bookies, the pub and the football. He’s always had this lingering feeling though that he doesn’t quite fit into this world, that there’s something different about him, something wrong… Jim’s never told his story to […]
Leeds Lads
Coinciding with the centenary anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Red Ladder Theatre Company, Carriageworks Theatre and Leeds Civic Arts Guild present new play Leeds Lads, with words and music by Anthony Clavane and Nick Stimson A young woman’s journey into Leeds’ secret, inspiring past It’s 2016. Tara stands on the steps of Leeds Town Hall on the day the […]
Hurling Rubble at the Sun
by Avaes Mohammad “Sometimes all you can do is make them see what it is they’re doing to you. What they’ve done to you. What they’ve turned you into. Sometimes that’s all you have left to show.” That side of town. July 2005. One blistering night. One blazing day. T labours over hot-plates cooking […]
The Thing About Psychopaths
Britain. 2013. Times are hard, but the money’s still out there if you know where to look and are prepared to gamble. Whether it’s prison or the corporate world, there are rules to be followed. Only the fittest survive. It’s every man for himself. A searing, funny and thought-provoking new play from Ben Tagoe (‘Cold […]
Sex & Docks & Rock ‘n’ Roll 2013
A musical comedy written and composed by Chumbawamba founder member and guitarist, Boff Whalley, with musical direction from former band mate Harry Hamer. Sex & Docks & Rock ‘n’ Roll returns to Leeds and Liverpool following its national tour in 2010, this time with Red Ladder Artistic Director, Liverpool-born Rod Dixon, playing the leading role […]
Promised Land
Winner of Sports Book of the Year 2011, Promised Land tells the story of Leeds, its football club and its communities. The stage adaptation tells that same story through the eyes of Nathan and Caitlin, two young idealists growing up in mid-1970s Leeds, living in the same city but on opposite sides of a cultural and […]
Big Society! A Music Hall Comedy
Crash-landing loudly into the rambunctious world of Edwardian Music Hall, Big Society! follows the on- and off-stage exploits of the cast of a Music Hall variety show. It’s 1910 and the cast are fighting for survival, threatened with shock/horror disclosures by a corrupt and moralistic newspaper, ‘The Double Standard’. (Yes, the whole show is based […]
Ugly
Set in the not too distant future where climate change has reached the point of no return, where mass global migration is the norm and a new malevolent world order has begun to exist, UGLY presents audiences with bold and darkly funny theatre. An absurd futuristic satire about 4 characters’ survival and their search for […]
