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Theatre Companies in the Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Region (2)

Magic Carpet Theatre
(Sutton-on-Hull) Entertainment for children, families and schools, featuring magic, circus and clowning.

Mikron Theatre Company
(Huddersfield) A very unusual company which tours inland waterways by narrow boat in the summer and the South Pennines by van from September to November. Usually perform in non-theatre venues.

Northern Broadsides
(Halifax) Concentrates on classical work, usually Shakespeare, and tours nationally.

Pilot Theatre Company
(Castleford) Community theatre and theatre for young people (14-25). New work and live music.

Proper Job Theatre Project
(Huddersfield) Educational and entertaining workshops and productions aimed at non-theatregoers.

Q20, Bradford's Theatre Company
Based in Shipley, a community and TIE company.

Red Ladder
(Leeds) Commissions and produces accomplished, innovative and relevant new plays of artistic excellence and tours them nationally to a youth audience which has little or no access to theatre.

Riding Lights Theatre Company
(York) Community theatre, regional touring and mainstream co-productions. New and existing work, devised shows, live music.

Swamp Circus Theatre Company
(Sheffield) Produces experimental circus theatre, aimed at raising cultural and environmental awareness.

Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah
(Leeds) Creates theatre which enables people to ask questions about themselves and the world.

Unlimited Theatre
(Leeds) Intuitive and often non-narrative theatre, which does not seek "to convince the audience of a point of view, but to surprise them with a vision."

Yorkshire Women Theatre Company
(Leeds) Aims to support and promote the work of women and young people. Interested in new writing and "theatre in health education".

Theatre in the Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Region: an Introduction
Theatres in Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield and York
Theatres in Yorkshire
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