16 March - 14 May
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In Other Words by Lisa Mee
New Stages 2011 Festival opened on Friday 4 March with new performance works by established and emerging artists who are postgraduate research students from the School and the University.
Below is the programme starting from the 16th March through to 14th May, all tickets can be purchased at the stage@leeds box office.
Programme
March 30, 6.00pm In Other Words by Lisa Mee
This theatrical journey delves into the thoughts and experiences of three very different women, exploring the inner psyches of three female outlooks upon life that all battle against each other for survival.
March 31, 6.00pm One Night Like This by Sarah Morgan
Dorie is near rock bottom. She is desperate, stuck in an endless cycle, trying to save
enough money to move on to a better life and time is running out on her. Her increasingly fragile emotional state threatens to engulf her; reality comes to a head, triggering a sequence of events which may or may not redeem her.
April 1 & 2, 6.00pm The Elephant in the Room by Joanne Hartley and Northern Creative Theatre
Meet the Bagshaws…a very normal family? Dark, absurd and set against a powerful soundscape; Elephant in the Room is a close-up focus on the minutiae of life for one seriously repressed family unit. Northern Creative Theatre are currently participating in 'Incubator', a scheme run by School of Performance & Cultural Industries to support performance companies in the early stage of development. You can find out more about the company and its aims at www.nctheatre.co.uk
May 11, 6.00pm Impro Gladiators devised by Duncan Marwick
Two teams of highly motivated and fit contestants line up against each other in the ultimate duel of mind and body. Who will win? Red? Or Blue? It’s up to you.
‘Contenders Ready? Fight!!!!’
May 12, 6.00pm Click by Jan Perry
Click lays bare a life warped by maternal ambition. Click was written for the MA: Writing for Performance and Publication, 2010. The play won the Windsor Marriott Award for New Drama Writing 2010, judged by Jenny Seagrove, actor, and John Adams, co-founder of Paines Plough.
May 13 & 14, 6pm (Alec Clegg) Anecdote is the Cruelest Form of Caricature, by Sara Zaltash.
Lonely kazoos, harmonic bicycles, bio-digital jazz. Performer training
from the margins. Sara Zaltash frenetically maps a rigorous, haphazard
and chaotic auto-training in this 40-minute promenade performance.
‘Silly’ is not Sara’s middle name, but she can pronounce ‘silly’, and
cannot pronounce her middle name.