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Red Ladder & Chumbawamba

RED LADDER & CHUMBAWAMBA JOIN FORCES Going back to our political roots Red Ladder is proud to be collaborating with Chumbawamba on this new play. A riotous comedy set in Northern industrial Britain with a mix of theatre, music, banter and action for an audience looking for a world beyond TV Talent Contests and multi-millionaires taking multi-million pound pensions in this winter of recession.

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Added by Red Ladder on November 25, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Red Ladder Theatre Company visit London

Forgotten Things by Emma Adams Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, receiving 4 & 5 star reviews, your chance to see this acclaimed production in London. Penned by Yorkshire-born playwright Emma Adams, the play has also been shortlisted for the Royal National Theatre Foundation’s Meyer-Whitworth award. Fusing puppetry, innovative theatre and surreal style the show offers a cross-generational story for 21st century audiences, not to be missed. bittersweet, intelligent...the power to m… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on September 21, 2009 at 2:18pm — No Comments

Great Edinburgh Reviews for Red Ladder

Red Ladder's show is going down brilliantly in Edinburgh. Below links to our reviews. We are so proud..... onwards and upwards! Forgotten Things by Emma Adams Reviews : Broadway Baby **** The List **** Ed Frin… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on August 18, 2009 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Edinburgh Festival 2009

Red Ladder Theatre Company is visiting the Edinburgh fringe festival this year with the acclaimed production of Forgotten Things by, Bradford born writer, Emma Adams. A darkly comic play about finding hope...and what happens when it is taken away. Fusing puppetry, physical performance and theatrical trickery Red Ladder have created a visually enticing cross-generational show. A 21st century dysfunctional family struggle to cope with their suicidal son and senile grandmother. ‘Moving, funny, h… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on August 3, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

EMERGE NEW WORK FESTIVAL, LEEDS

Red Ladder Theatre Company's latest performance is part of the Emerge Festival, Leeds Monday by Paula B Stanic, winner of Red Ladder's Red Writers Scheme and performed by a sensational young cast from our Red Grit Actor Training company. Saturday 25 July, Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Square , Leeds @ 2.00pm & 7.45pm 0113 224 3801 / MONDAY BY PAULA B STANIC You're losing your job. You're losing your flat. You’re credi… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on July 8, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Book Published about Red Ladder Theatre practice

A new book that looks at Red Ladder Theatre Company’s extraordinary 40 year history has just been published by Swati Pal, an academic from Delhi University Entitled “Look Back At Anger: Agit Prop Theatre in Britain” the book takes an in-depth look at Red Ladder’s agit prop beginnings, its progress through the 70s, 80s and 90s, and its current status as one of the country’s most enduring theatre companies. 2008 marked 40 years of Red Ladder Theatre Company. In 1968, a large number of agit prop… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on January 13, 2009 at 10:40am — No Comments

Red Ladder - 1968 - 2008 celebrates 40years in theatre

Red Ladder, Leeds based theatrical agitators, is busy putting it's 4oth anniversary theatre production together which has a mixture of professional & community artists. The show, Where's Vietnam ? written by Alice Nutter (Former long serving member of anarchist pop band Chumbawamba before hanging up the mike in 2004 to concentrate on writing drama) The production will be performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds 19/20/21 June 08. A comedy about love, family loyalty and not letting di… Continue

Added by Red Ladder on April 15, 2008 at 10:31am — No Comments

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