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Dateline: 17th May, 2010
Summer at The Carriageworks The Carriageworks in Leeds has announced its summer season. Highlights of the season include Beady Eye’s Everything Must Go (Friday 21 May, 7.45pm). This unusual and highly original production has been showered with critical praise and awards, including a Total Theatre Award for Devised Performance and The Arches Brick Award 2009. The show is a funny, inventive and moving tribute to performer Kristin Fredricksson’s late father. It comes to Leeds as part of a UK tour that will include being performed at London’s Barbican Centre.
This is followed by Refresh Theatre’s Alice (Saturday 5 June, 7.30pm). With its Liverpool premiere quickly selling out, this new show mixes physical theatre, evocative soundscapes and multi-media projections, along with a bit of circus and origami for good measure. The piece uses the imagery of Alice in Wonderland to create a funny and uplifting autobiographical story performed by the company’s Artistic Director Alice Robinson.
The Emerge Festival (Monday 21 – Saturday 26 June, various times) was started with the belief that some of the best new theatre in Britain is coming out of Leeds. The second edition of this annual event aims to make a big noise about the great work being made in the city and region. It will provide a platform for emerging theatremakers to try out ideas and connect with new audiences. Throughout the week-long event there will be performances, workshops and showings of work in different stages of development. The full-line up will be announced soon at www.emergefestival.org.uk.
The Carriageworks is one of the lead partners in the festival, along with stage@leeds, Seven and other organisations and agencies from across the city. The festival kicks off at the city centre venue with a specially-commissioned performance by Red Grit, Red Ladder Theatre Company’s actor training project. Bittersweet Sunshine (Mon 21 – Tues 22 June, 7.30pm) is Yorkshire playwright Ben Tagoe’s first commission for the company. Emerge has been funded by a grant from Arts Council England.
Leeds City Council executive member for Leisure Councillor John Procter said, "The Carriageworks has quickly become renowned for being a real hotbed of new performing talent and that is a real source of pride for everyone involved. The summer season shows once again that the theatre is dedicated to nurturing and developing the best new companies and artists around. Fans of inventive new theatre should definitely head to The Carriageworks this summer."
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