Past Shows
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We’re Not Going Back
8 March 2024 - 25 October 2024
Red Ladder Theatre Company and Unite the Union present We’re Not Going Back Written by Boff Whalley 75 Mines. 3 Sisters. 1 Cause. (And a six-pack of Babycham) 2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in […]
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Me For You by Rachel E. Thorn
17 July 2024 - 26 July 2024
“Choosing sperm is weird. The one thing we know for sure is these guys are all wankers.” Holly knows that human-beings have screwed the planet but she’s still desperate to have a baby of her own. She’s tried doing the right thing, but her bamboo toothbrush didn’t reverse global warming. So she’s joined Extinction Rebellion. […]
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Tones – A Hip Hop Opera
A piece of gig theatre like no other, Tones – A Hip Hop Opera combines the gritty underground sounds of hip-hop, grime and drill with the melodrama of opera to tell the story of a treacherous path to self-discovery. From writer and performer Gerel Falconer, winner of Best Book and Lyrics at the Black British Theatre […]
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Dragon
1 November 2024 - 3 November 2024
Dragon is a visually stunning, fantasy genre puppetry show for families and children aged 7+, taking audiences on an exhilarating 70 min adventure, mixing cutting edge projection and digital animation with beautiful live puppetry, performed by a cast of 3 to a soaring original score. In a verdant valley ringed by mountains, a young orphaned […]
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Football Freddie
Fidget Theatre presents Football Freddie The story of a little girl, With a big love of the beautiful game And her Great-Great-Great Uncle, Who shares the same name. A warm and witty new show for children and their grown-ups about football, team-work and the joy of joining in. Football Freddie tells the story of Freddie […]
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Dead Girls Rising
25 May 2024 - 26 May 2024
Katie and Hannah love murder. They go to bed listening to podcasts about serial killers; they clutch blankets glued to gruesome documentaries. They’re in deep. They’re not sure if they can stop, and they’re not sure if they want to. And then they summon The Furies. The Greek goddesses of vengeance! Well… technically the Greek […]
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BI-TOPIA
22 June 2024 - 22 June 2024
Sam Danson and Emmerson & Ward present BI-TOPIA by Sam Danson Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair BI-TOPIA is a ‘Hilarious, honest and raw’ coming-of-age story, exploring the highs and lows of the Bisexual experience, bravely delving into under-represented links between poor mental health, sexuality and masculinity. Join Sam; a self-confessed people-pleaser, in the war room as […]
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The Light House
26 February 2024 - 26 March 2024
A love letter to life. Love is a complicated business. It gets even more complicated when the person you love doesn’t want to be alive. Tender, funny and defiantly hopeful, The Light House is a real-life story of falling in love and staying in love, even when the lights go out and you’re lost in […]
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Breaking The Mould – The Alice Gostick Story
10 February 2024 - 18 February 2024
You’ve heard of famous Castleford sculptor Henry Moore and fellow artists Albert Wainwright and Arthur Dalby. Yet have you heard of the inspirational woman behind them all? Their teacher Alice Gostick. Alice taught the boys the art of Peasant Pottery, helping fire up a movement throughout the country for hand-painting ceramics. Now, for the first […]
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A GOOD NEET AHT
It’s about the places that make us and the places we make. It’s about growing up and moving away. It’s about where we’ve been and where we are now. It’s about belonging and not belonging. It’s about not fitting in and finding a place to fit in. It’s about here. It’s about there. It’s about […]
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