May – July 2012
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Nonsense Room Productions present
Welcome to The Carriageworks
Here at The Carriageworks our mission is to nurture theatre-makers and grow the audience for live performance. Two great new projects this season do exactly that. Promised Land (see pg 11) sees national touring company Red Ladder join forces with our very own Leeds Civic Arts Guild. Together they will produce a spectacular community production of a new adaptation by Anthony Clavane of his award-winning memoir about the changing fortunes of the city’s football club. We’re delighted that we will also be launching a whole range of activities under the Emerge banner – a year round artist development programme that aims to make a big noise about great theatre being made in our region. Things kick off with the annual SummerFest – see page 10 for more.
Family pg 3 – 5
Leeds Civic Arts Guild pg 15 – 18 A selection of shows to brighten the day of all your kids, including visits from Hairy Maclary & Friends (6 June) and The Snail and the Whale (29 July), from the company that brought you Room on the Broom.
Performance pg 6 – 12 A packed season featuring the finest touring shows such as Improbable’s The Pirate Project (8 May), plus the return of New End Theatre (producers of last summer’s Where’s Your Mama Gone?) with Jerusalem Tango (1 – 26 May) and A Big Day for the Goldbergs (3 – 28 July).
As well as taking the lead in our community production Promised Land (22 – 30 June), our association of amateur companies will be presenting their regular programme of top-notch shows. Take your pick!
Participatory Arts pg 19 – 22 Breeze International Youth Festival (30 May – 10 June) returns with a packed programme across the city, as do the young people of our very own Carriageworks Theatre Academy with Gold and Flying Like A Bird (28 July).
Comedy pg 13 – 14 We’re thrilled to be a host venue for the Leeds Comedy Festival (28 Apr – 3 May), as well as one of our favourite comedians – the delightful Alex Horne (29 May).
Disabled parking available on Cookridge Street alongside Leeds City Museum.
Hairy Maclary & Friends Following a sell-out run at the Fringe 2010, a UK Tour in 2011 and the Christmas season at the Sydney Opera House, Hairy Maclary and his friends are springing off the page once again this summer. Featuring many of the characters from the books like Hercules Morse, as big as a Horse, and Bottomley Potts, covered in spots. With music, singing and several of your favourite Hairy Maclary stories, this show is a must for the whole family.
“A vibrant, fun filled show that cleverly brings Lynley Dodd’s much-loved children’s books to life” PRIMARY TIMES
Sun 6 June
Main Auditorium: 1.30pm & 3.30pm Tickets: £9.50, £7.50 (concessions £1 off) Family Ticket: £32 Suitable for ages 2 – 8
Theatre Lark presents
This Way Up The grown ups have put the whole world into cardboard boxes, neatly wrapped with tape and string. There are adventures in those boxes. Adventures on moons and under oceans. Adventures filled with spaceships and fantastic creatures. We can’t wait. We’re going in. Do you want to come too? This Way Up is a sideways look at moving on, saying goodbye, and stepping into the great unknown, told through a headlong tumble into the irresistible joy of play.
Children welcome. For more info see page 25.
Sat 16 June Cover photograph: Can You Dig It? – page 14.
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 12 noon & 2.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Suitable for ages 3 – 7 and their grown ups
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Box Office: 0113 224 3801 Tall Stories presents
The Snail & The Whale
Family
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Great family shows coming soon... Call Box Office on 0113 224 3801 for more details. Paul Holman Associates presents
Squashbox Theatre presents
Universarama
Wed 19 – Thurs 20 Sept 2012 Since the beginning of time, human beings have gazed up at the night sky and wondered… What are the stars made of? How big is the universe? Is there life on other planets? Featuring Craig Johnson – actor, musician, puppeteer, astronomy fan, and long-standing member of Cornwall’s renowned Kneehigh Theatre. Barisons Productions presents
How Lion Became King of Tinga Tinga
‘How I long to sail’ said the tiny snail…
Wed 31 Oct – Thurs 1 Nov 2012
Tall Stories (creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom stage shows) is proud to present its latest collaboration with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. A tiny snail longs to see the world, so she hitches a lift on the tail of a huge humpback whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, experiencing sharks and penguins, icebergs and volcanoes. The little snail is amazed by it all, but starts feeling very small in the vastness of the world. Then disaster strikes – the whale becomes beached in a bay… Can the tiny snail save the day? Created in Tall Stories’ unique style, The Snail and The Whale combines physical storytelling, live music and lots of laughs. Carriageworks Theatre Academy presents
Sun 29 July
Main Auditorium: 12.30pm & 3pm Tickets: £9.50, £7.50, (concessions £1 off) Family Ticket: £32 Suitable for ages 4+
Gold & Flying Like A Bird Illustration © Axel Scheffler
28 July – see pg 22 for more details
Inspired by the hit Cbeebies/Tiger Aspect TV show, five performers and two drummers lead kids and their families through a high-octane story full of music, puppets, dancing, and lots of things to join in with. Theatre of Widdershins presents
Rapunzel & The Tower of Doom Fri 2 Nov 2012
The Carriageworks’ favourites return, having taken this traditional tale right back to its roots, teased out the tangles and styled it into a beautifully coiffured hairpiece!
Fri 30 Nov 2012 – Sat 5 Jan 2013
A giant of a pantomime! With a bag full of magic beans, colourful characters, creative costumes and a set straight out of a fairy tale book, Jack and the Beanstalk promises to raise the roof at The Carriageworks with bucket-loads of laughter and GIANT opportunities for audience participation. Our fast-paced story will grow quicker than our magical beanstalk, with a dame to add confusion and comedy capers from Leeds’ favourite funny-man Jez Edwards. And if that’s not enough, there’s Daisy the cow to bring cuteness to this enchanting tale! For the full panto schedule and prices please visit our website.
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Lucy Foster in co-production with Improbable, in association with Ovalhouse present
The Pirate Project Three women set sail in search of their inner pirate. Expect sword fights, theatrical storms and cross-dressing aplenty. Ha Harrrr! Fanciful stagings of the escapades of Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Ching Shih – swashbuckling female pirates of the past – combine with intimate stories of personal piracy in the performers’ own lives. See these bloodthirsty damsels out-sail, out-think, and out-fight every man on the high seas. A brilliantly visual show, the piece features a highly inventive set and video projections. Lucy Foster, Associate Director of Improbable:
“One of the most energising forces in British theatre” THE GUARDIAN Tues 8 May
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £11, £9 (concessions £2 off) Suitable for age 15+
Tongue Tied Theatre presents
New End Theatre Beyond presents
The Foundry Group presents
The Fantasist’s Waltz
Jerusalem Tango
Big Daddy Vs Giant Haystacks
Set in a world of misguided passions, momentary lifetimes and crumbs of desire, The Fantasist’s Waltz is the haunting modern fairy tale of an isolated man who disappears into his imagination for solace, a magnificent dream world in which he is the centre of wonder and the object of desire. Through the veins of TongueTied’s tale pulses a live original score and inventive physical storytelling bringing to life the story of a man’s fight for survival in a world that has seemingly forgotten him.
“Potency, humour and poignancy”
By Pat Rowe
The Second World War ended a year ago. It’s two years before Israeli independence. A beautiful young Jewish woman visits the King David Hotel to dance the tango. There she meets a British officer who falls under her spell... Enter a tangled world of love and conflicting loyalties in a country fraught with the complex issues that heralded the end of the British colonial presence in the Middle East. From the company that brought you Where’s Your Mama Gone?.
YORK PRESS
Tues 1 May
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £13, £11 (£2 concessions £2 off) Suitable for ages 11+
Tues 1 – Sat 26 May
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 7.45pm Thurs mat 2pm (not 3 May) No performances Sundays or Mondays Tickets: £11 (£9 concessions)
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons, and countless more world-wide, were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men pretend to fight each other. This new play by Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, award-winning writers of New Perspectives’ hit Those Magnificent Men, brings back to grunting, grappling life these two well-loved wrestling rivals and the bizarre world they bestrode. Featuring Latest 7 Award and Herald-Angel winner Ross Gurney-Randall and Radio 4’s Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show regular David Mounfield. WINNER: Buxton Festival Fringe Award – Best Theatre Production Fringe Guru Editor’s Choice Award (Brighton 2011) Latest 7 Award for Best Male Performer (Brighton Festival & Fringe 2011)
Thurs 10 May
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £13, £11 (concessions £2 off)
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Riot
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10 February 2005. At the stroke of midnight the British public punch, kick, strangle and eventually stab their way to £45 sofas and £35 bed frames at the opening of their favourite Swedish furniture store. Riot is a true story set in a lamp-lit flat-pack universe bursting with violence, chaos and more characters than you can throw a meatball at. Hammered together with physical theatre and music, The Wardrobe Ensemble tear up the instructions and disregard the diagrams to construct a comedic tragedy of a thoroughly modern kind.
“An anarchic comedy… Deserves to be applauded for their darkly convincing portrayals of mass hysteria” THE SCOSTMAN
Fri 8 June
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £5
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Odd Doll Puppet Theatre presents
Move To Stand presents
The Trick
Kin
Driven by a desire to create something original, one man releases control of his own shadow, in the hope that it will discover a kind of beauty that he can only dream of. Instead, it reveals a stark reality, as creative success swiftly degenerates into a moral battle between light and dark. Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s The Shadow and Franz Kafka’s Obeying the Law, this contemporary fairytale has been created by Total Theatre Award-winners, combining puppetry and object theatre with a live original music score. Featuring angry pegs, dancing scissors, magic taps and flying creatures, The Trick is playful, bizarre, beautiful and tragic.
An award-winning show about three friends who lose one life to gain another. An international cast unearths a delicate story of home, foreignness and speaking the mother tongue. This is the tale of a young couple, their lodger and the big city in which they live. Will they re-find each other in their darkest moment? Kicking off Emerge 2012, this is an enchanting and taut piece that draws its audience into a compelling story of tragedy and transcendence. An early version was first seen at The Carriageworks as part of The Best of BE Festival tour. Audience comments said the work was “stunningly effective”, as well as “heartbreaking and beautiful”.
Tues 12 & Wed 13 June
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 7.45pm Tickets: £9 (£7 concessions) Suitable for age 12+
Mon 18 June
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £11, £9 (concessions £2 off) All tickets £6 to Emerge wristband holders
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Red Ladder, The Carriageworks and Leeds Civic Arts Guild present the world premiere of
Promised Land A Northern Love Story Some of the best new theatre in Britain is coming out of the north, and Emerge aims to make a big noise about the great work being made in our region. It provides a platform to try out ideas, take creative practice to the next level, and connect with new audiences. Every year Emerge runs a festival to celebrate and showcase the great work being made by young companies and theatre-makers today. This year’s festival will feature a week-long schedule of fulllength performances, scratch work, script nights, workshops and networking opportunities. The week will also showcase new piece Kin (18 June, see page 9) from Move to Stand and the premiere of Red Ladder’s collaboration with the Leeds Civic Arts Guild, Promised Land (22 – 30 June, see opposite). Call outs for work will be made during April and May, so keep checking www.emergeleeds.co.uk for up-to-date information and the latest schedule. We also support the development of work with our year-round mentored commission programme. During the coming seasons we will be producing tours by 2011 Emerge commission winners Lawrence Speck, Naomi Rothwell and Beth Caudle, as well as supporting and commissioning work by a new intake of talented theatre-makers. Twitter: @emergeleeds Find our group on Facebook: Emerge: Leeds New Work Festival Email: carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk
Sun 17 – Sun 30 June
Various times and places: see www.emergeleeds.co.uk for details Emerge wristbands will be available from Box office for £20 (free access to most events in the festival plus special year-round discounts on shows) Separate tickets available for individual events Emerge is a partnership between The Carriageworks, stage@leeds, Seven Arts, Red Ladder Theatre Company and PLaY Theatre.
Photo © Matthew Tullett
A co-production between Leeds Civic Arts Guild, The Carriageworks and Red Ladder, the show will be performed by a large community cast with a Nathan and Caitlin are young idealists live band playing original music. growing up in the same city, but on opposite sides of a cultural and religious divide. Nathan In the Olympic year and the month the Olympic is Jewish, a Leeds United fan and a dreamer. torch comes to Leeds, this brand new stage Caitlin is a musician from a Catholic family adaptation of Leeds-born journalist and writer and has more practical ambitions. What they Anthony Clavane’s best-selling book will be a have in common is a hope of escaping. But will large-scale celebration of the city of Leeds, its that be enough to hold them together? people and football club.
“This superb memoir defies categorisation... Clavane brings together a wealth of detail, allied with historical and sporting judgment, to produce the football book of the year.” NICK PITT, THE SUNDAY TIMES Fri 22 – Sat 30 June
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm, Matinees Sat 23 & 30, Sun 24: 2pm Tickets: £11.50 (£9.50 concessions) £8 (Fri 22 June preview and matinees only) £8 schools (no bus), LUFC season ticket holders/members, LCAG members. School ticket + bus deal also available
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New End Theatre Beyond presents
SJC Productions presents
A Big Day For The Goldbergs
Deirdre & Me
For sisters Michelle and Lucille the future burns bright: nice houses, Jewish boys and babies in the Leeds they’ve always known. But Michelle wants something different and she’s prepared to fight for it against a neurotic mother, judgemental grandma and the age-old assumptions of a provincial community. And where, in all this, is Daddy? Following sell-out seasons in London, Edinburgh and Harrow, Brian Daniels presents a revised version of his first play, with a newly written second act that will have you laughing, crying and questioning all the way home.
Tues 3 – Sat 28 July
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 7.45pm, Thurs mat 2pm No performances Sundays or Mondays Tickets: £11 (£9 concessions)
Susan White is 35. Average height. Average build. Average looks. But there’s something far from average about Susan. Not only is she best friends with Deirdre Barlow, she is in fact the No.1 super fan of the TV soap star from Coronation Street! This is the story of Susan White – office worker, stationary lover and Corrie fanatic. Played by writer and performer Rachael Halliwell, we witness one woman’s obsession take a dark and dangerous twist in an original show, full of laugh out loud yet poignant humour in the style of Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood.
Mon 30 & Tues 31 July
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 7.45pm Tickets: £9 (£7 concessions)
Comedy
www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk 28 April – 3 May
Main Auditorium
Laughter Lines presents
Leeds Comedy Festival www.laughterlines.org Comedy Club 4 Kids: Big Howard, Little Howard
Live Nation/MHA/ United Agents present
Isy Suttie: Pearl & Dave
Saturday 28 April, 4pm
Thurs 3 May, 7pm
All Tickets: £6
Cracking entertainment for everyone over the age of six. The best comedians on the UK circuit do what they do best... but without the rude bits! Starring Big Howard & Little Laughter Lines presents Howard (CBBC’s Little Howard’s Big Question), Leicester Mercury Henning Wehn: No Surrender Comedian of the Year 2011 Ben Target and host Eric Wed 2 May, 9pm Lampaert. All Tickets: £8 Suitable for ages 6+
Frisky & Mannish: Extracurricular Activities Sat 28 April, 7pm All Tickets: £10
School? College? Job? YAWN. Life isn’t about spreadsheets – it’s about joy and laughter and POP MUSIC. London’s resident experts of pop hermeneutics and ‘fullyblown superstars’ (Time Out), are letting their hair down, and letting rip. Expect the F&M classics, alongside things they haven’t even made up yet.
“Generation X-Factor have found their perfect comedy duo” The Guardian Suitable for ages 16+
You may well have heard Henning on BBC Radio’s Unbelievable Truth, News Quiz, Now Show and Fighting Talk or seen him on QI, Dave’s One Night Stand or Edinburgh and Beyond. Now’s your chance to see the self-appointed German Comedy Ambassador to the UK in the flesh in his sell-out Edinburgh show. Suitable for ages 16+
All Tickets: £8
This extraordinary new onewoman comedy show tells the story of the part Isy played in two people’s blossoming internet romance whilst on her own treacherous search for true love. Bursting with hilarity and genuinely touching, this beautifully nuanced show flits between stand-up, music and character comedy. Suitable for ages 16+
Paul Foot: Still Life Thurs 3 May, 9pm All Tickets: £8
Paul Foot is one of the UK’s most creative and original comedians. A BBC New Comedy Award and Daily Telegraph Open Mic winner, his recent Edinburgh Shows have met with great critical acclaim, as have his appearances on BBC2’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Suitable for ages 16+
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Comedy Avalon presents
Alex Horne
Seven Years in the Bathroom Star and co-creator of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, award-winning comedian Alex Horne has established a reputation among critics, comics and audiences as a thoughtful and original standup, writer and solo performer. Seven Years in the Bathroom is the ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid comedy show in which Alex aims to recreate your entire life in one hour. That’s right – he’ll do everything you’ll ever do but in sixty minutes. Alex is going to squeeze all those things into one show and it’ll be tremendous.
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“A beguiling blend of the smart and the stupid… a real delight”
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Leeds Civic Arts Guild
SUNDAY TIMES
Leeds Civic Arts Guild is an association of various amateur drama, music and opera companies who perform regularly at The Carriageworks.
Can You Dig It?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £11, £9 (concessions £2 off)
See page 11 for details
For more information or to join up, email enquiries@lcag.org.uk or visit www.lcag.org.uk.
Leeds Arts Centre presents
Wed 11 July
Leeds Civic Arts Guild’s co-production with Red Ladder
Everyone is welcome, from old hands to complete novices. This might be the opportunity you’ve always wanted to tread the boards and become the star of the show. Or you could experience the thrill of being backstage by getting involved in lighting, sound and set building.
Xylophone Productions presents
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Promised Land
Leeds Civic Arts Guild has a growing membership and you can take part too!
Main Auditorium: 8pm Tickets: £12
“It is difficult not to laugh. Highly entertaining”
Don’t forget!
The following pages include some of the fantastic shows coming up from the Guild societies this season. There’s something for everyone, from spectacular musicals to classic drama. Which will you be seeing?
Tues 29 May
Comedy songs about growing your own vegetables starring musical comedians (and real-life allotment holders) Jo Stephenson and Dan Woods. This critically acclaimed horticultural revue includes The Ballad of Derrick the Evil Pigeon, a powerful love song to Alan Titchmarsh and the world’s first rap battle between a gardener and a slug. Can You Dig It? will appeal to both vegetable-growing novices and seasoned cultivators, as Jo and Dan delve into the mysterious and competitive world of vegetable shows, launch a campaign to give sprouts the recognition they deserve, and ask: John Innes – who is he? There’s even a song for people who don’t like vegetables, poor things. No Filth – except the mud!
Leeds Civic Arts Guild
At a small New England college, George and Martha invite new-comers Nick and Honey to join them for a drink after a party. What appears a simple invitation is soon revealed to be a ring-side seat for one hell of a marital row and a night of games and revelations from which none of them will emerge unscathed. Edward Albee’s 1962 play has received almost every major theatre award going and is probably best known for the film version starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Both funny and shocking, this rollercoaster show is one of the great American plays of the Twentieth Century. An amateur production in association with Samuel French Ltd
Wed 16 – Sat 19 May
Main Auditorium: 7.15pm Tickets: £12 (£9 concessions) Suitable for ages 12+
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Leeds Civic Arts Guild
Leeds Arts Centre presents
Leeds Youth Opera presents
The Price
Manon
Two estranged brothers discover the cost of their parents’ furniture and the decisions they have made. Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp: the relics of a lost life of affluence he’s finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter arrives, attention turns to the price one of them paid when their father lost his fortune – and his will to carry on.
One of Jules Massenet’s most popular and enduring operas, with music that is said to capture the charm and vitality of the Parisian ‘Beautiful Era’. Manon starts her journey on the way to a convent but is soon seduced by the sights, sounds and characters she meets along the way, leading her down a very different path. Leeds Youth Opera set this version against the romantic and poetic backdrop of 1930’s Paris, allowing the vibrant characters, stunning chorus numbers and intimate arias an exciting artistic freedom which brings this delightful opera to life.
by Arthur Miller
An amateur production in association with Josef Weinberger Ltd
An amateur production in association with Schirmer Publishing
Wed 27 – Sat 30 June
upstairs@thecarriageworks: 7.15pm Tickets: £12 (£9 concessions)
Cosmopolitan Players presents
LIDOS presents
And Then There Were None
The Sound of Music
This classic Agatha Christie whodunit will keep you guessing right through to the very end! Ten people, all strangers to each other, are invited by unknown hosts to a lonely house on a remote island. When they arrive, it seems they have all been invited for different reasons. Nothing quite adds up. A mysterious voice accuses each of them of murder. First one and then another dies – and the tension grows as they realize that the killer is one of themselves.
The world’s best-loved musical was the final show written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The unforgettable score brims over with memorable songs such as My Favourite Things, Do-Re-Me, Climb Ev’ry Mountain, The Lonely Goatherd, Sixteen Going on Seventeen and of course the wonderful title song The Sound of Music. An amateur production in association with Josef Weinberger Ltd
An amateur production in association with Samuel French Ltd
Thurs 24 – Sat 26 May
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm; Sat matinee 2pm Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions)
Wed 13 – Sat 16 June
Main Auditorium: 7pm; Sat Matinee 2pm Tickets: £16, £14 (concessions £2 off) Family Ticket: £50
Wed 4 – Sat 7 July
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £18, £12 (concessions £3 off)
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Forthcoming Shows
Leeds Civic Arts Guild
Participatory Arts
Look out for these shows coming soon.
Leeds Civic Arts Guild is an association of various amateur drama, music and operatic companies who perform regularly at The Carriageworks. The Civic Arts Guild holds a ‘New Members Evening’ every second Tuesday of the month at 8pm in the Level 2 Bar. Feel free to come along and join us.
The Carriageworks regularly opens its doors to participatory arts activities from across Leeds. All of the groups involved offer great opportunities for people to have a go and get involved in a whole range of creative experiences.
1 Cosmopolitan Players 1 Leeds Amateur Operatic Society 1 Leeds Arts Centre 1 Leeds Art Theatre in partnership with Spotlight Theatre Company 1 Leeds Children’s Theatre 1 Leeds Gilbert & Sullivan Society 1 Leeds Insurance Dramatic & Operatic Society (LIDOS) 1 Leeds Writers’ Circle 1 Leeds Youth Opera 1 Limelight Drama Group 1 Morley Amateur Operatic Society 1 Pandemonium Drama Company 1 Shatterproof 1 S.T.A.R.S 1 St Mary’s Youth Theatre 1 West Riding Opera
Regular Classes
See www.lcag.org.uk for more details.
Wed 19 – Sat 22 September LIDOS presents
Songs, Dance, Comedy & Music Wed 17 – Sat 20 October
Cosmopolitan Players presents
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth Tickets go on sale in June
Wed 24 – Sat 27 October Leeds Arts Centre presents
Duets
by Peter Quilter
Thurs 10 – Sat 19 January 2013 LIDOS presents
Goldilocks & The Three Bears
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For more information visit www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk or email carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk. Classes are not run by The Carriageworks and are the responsibility of the respective groups.
Tai Chi
with Wai-Yii Rogers Tuesdays, Room 1: 5.45pm
Photo: Jonathan Turner
The Music of Poetry
with Rommi Smith Tuesdays, fortnightly, Room 3: 6.45pm – 8.45pm
Breeze International Youth Festival presents
Acting Classes
BIYF LIVE! @ The Carriageworks
Belly Dancing Classes
This selection of performances has been developed especially for this year’s festival and we are proud to showcase up and coming talent from Leeds.
with Northern Spirit Creative Wednesdays, Room 2: 6pm – 8pm Suitable for ages 16+ with Sabrina Owen Thursdays, Room 4: 6pm – 7pm
Lindy Hop Class
Fridays, Room 1: 7pm – 9.30pm On Stage Theatre Arts Academy
Musical Theatre Classes Saturdays, Room 2: 1pm – 4pm Room 3: 2pm – 4pm
Want to book a conference or rehearsal room? See page 24 for details.
Performance groups include: 1 2 Directions 1 Tamara Sharp For more 1 Rodillian School d rest of etails of the 1 Yorkshire Dance (30 Ma the festival 1 See Leeds www.b y – 10 June) s e reezele eds.org e 1 EXP Dance /biyf 1 Ascendance Rep 1 DAZL
Saturday 9 June
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £3 or free with a Breezecard
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www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk Mullen Dance Studios presents
Here We Go Again Dance Extravaganza
The title says it all! After 62 years of performing, Mullen Theatre Dance Studios yet again take to the stage to give the most spectacular performance. Fasten your seatbelts for an entertaining evening of song, ballet, tap and modern all featuring their very own Mullen Babies right up to their Mullen Adults. Rest assured you too will be toe tapping and dancing in your seat. Mullen promises to leave you overwhelmed by their amazing performance skills.
Fri 13 & Sat 14 July
Main Auditorium: 7pm Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions)
Include Arts Afternoon
La’Fay School of Dance presents
Cirque du La’Fay
A fun afternoon of creative activities for young people aged 13 – 25 with disabilities, their siblings and families. The Carriageworks opens up its building for a packed afternoon of taster workshops and activities including dancing, cheerleading, storytelling, film screenings and music. There’ll be a cafe, people to chat to, as well as quiet space. If you’re a young person with additional needs, come along to find out more about arts and culture in Leeds, what’s on offer, and how you can get involved. Participating organisations include Northern Ballet, DAZL Dance, Leeds Libraries, Pyramid of Arts, Equal Voices and many more.
Thurs 7 June
Whole Venue: 1pm – 4pm Free Entry
Photo © Yorkshire Post
Welcome to the circus! Cirque du La’fay is full of surprises, clowns, jugglers, dolls and twists of fate. La’fay School of Dance takes to the stage to delight, shock and entertain with a variety of dance styles including ballet, tap and street dance. Dancers of all ages will take you behind the red curtains to a world of fun and excitement. Routines set to traditional circus songs, modern tunes and unique sounds will take you from the theatre to the big top. Enjoy an evening of laughs, smiles, tears, toe tapping and clapping to the beat!
Fri 20 & Sat 21 July
Main Auditorium: 7.30pm Tickets: £9 (£7 concessions)
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Participatory Arts The Carriageworks Theatre Academy in association with Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah presents
Gold & Flying Like a Bird Created by The Carriageworks Theatre Academy Written and directed by Ruth Cooper A double bill of myth and life intertwined. Midas wished everything he touched turns to gold. Lee wishes he were witty. Icarus fell in love with flying. Chloe falls in love with shopping. Gold and Flying Like a Bird interweave the classic myths of Midas and Icarus with original stories created by young theatre makers in an unforgettable double bill about getting what you wish for and going too far.
Sat 28 July
Main Auditorium: 2pm & 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Family Ticket: £16
Interested?
Apply to join the Theatre Academy now! Aged between 10 and 16, Academy members work as a team of young theatre makers; performing, writing and directing to build new performances from thought-provoking starting points. The Academy is led by director Ruth Cooper and run in partnership with the renowned Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah During summer we will be auditioning for new members to join us in September. Email carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk for an information pack.
Schools, Groups & Families
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Competition
Transport
Hairy Maclary is coming to The Carriageworks on Wed 6 June with a new friend. Can you invent and draw this friend? Don’t forget to give him a name! Our favourite entry will win a family ticket to see the show.
Don’t let the cost of transport stop you coming to the theatre. To help, we have partnered with Metro Buses to bring you a special deal.
Send us a picture at carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk or drop your design at your local Library before Tues 22 May. Terms and Conditions: A family ticket consists of either two adults and two children OR one adult and three children. Tickets will be available for collection on the day of the performance. The prize is only valid for the performance on Wed 6 June 2012 - no substitute is available.
Education Pack Don’t forget that our free education pack is available for primary schools throughout the year to help with your trip. Email: carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk
Interactive Backstage Tours
Please call the office for more information about shows and transport on 0113 247 4746.
Leeds Libraries Bookstart Bear Club for families. It’s FREE! Children under 4 years are invited to join at their local library – they just need to be a member. If you’re not already a member why not join? It only takes a minute. Once they join the Bookstart Bear Club, children receive a folder and joining certificate. They can then start their journey collecting stamps and special certificates.
Explore the theatre! Get in touch with us to organise a backstage tour for your students or community group. Uncover the secrets of performance, take a snoop in our dressing rooms We promise it will open up an exciting world as and let our technicians teach you the tricks of you and your child explore stories, books and the trade. Why not link your visit with seeing a rhymes together. show? For more information visit your local library or go Email carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk if you would to www.leeds.gov.uk/libraries like to arrange a tour. Prices are very reasonable, so please get in touch for a quote. Subject to availability.
Future School Productions Squashbox Theatre presents
Universarama
Wed 19 – Thurs 20 Sept 2012 Suitable for Key Stage 2/3
Ticket deals inclusive of transport available. Please contact Pauline Courtier at pauline.courtier@leeds.gov.uk.
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Bar & Conferencing
General Information Children & Families The Carriageworks welcomes mothers who wish to breast-feed. Please feel free to do so throughout the building, but if you would prefer a private area then let a member of staff know and we will provide one if available. • Baby changing facilities and child booster seats are available. • Children under one year old come free but will not be given a specified seat. • Prams cannot be taken into the auditorium.
The Carriageworks offers conference, meeting and rehearsal spaces to hire. In addition to the 349 seater Main Auditorium, a further six meeting rooms are available for conferencing, meetings and workshops, accommodating various numbers of delegates. All conference rooms provide AV equipment, air conditioning and support from a dedicated commercial team. Three of the six meeting rooms are situated in the historic part of the old Carriageworks development. These meeting spaces reveal exposed brickwork and roof beams in keeping with the Victorian architecture whilst providing a light and airy studio feel. These rooms are also available to hire for evening rehearsals, workshops and classes at a reasonable competitive rate. Please call 0113 395 2157 or email carriageworksvenue@leeds.gov.uk for more information.
The Carriageworks Bar on Level 2 provides spectacular views overlooking Millennium Square. Enjoy a drink before the show, during the interval or after the curtain has fallen. To avoid queuing during the interval, orders may be placed before the show starts. And there’s no need to rush your drinks – ask for a plastic glass at the bar and you can take them into the Auditorium.
Wheelchair Access
Lift access to all floors. Please discuss any access requirements with the Box Office staff when you make your booking.
Visually Impaired
In our ‘upstairs@thecarriageworks’ space, children may be invited to sit on tour mats so they can get closer to the action and improve their view and experience.
This brochure is available in large print and tape by contacting The Carriageworks office: 0113 247 4746.
To receive copies of the What’s On brochure by post, send your name and address to:
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To receive information on upcoming shows, offers and events, please email carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk with ‘Subscribe to mailing list’ in the header field.
A unique business destination
The Carriageworks front of house staff will help make your visit as enjoyable as possible. If you need to make specific arrangements prior to your visit please contact us on 0113 395 2160 or 0113 395 0307.
• Under 13s must be accompanied by an adult.
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The Carriageworks:
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City Centre Box Office The Carriageworks The Electric Press Millennium Square Leeds LS2 3AD Email: carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk
Latecomers Please note that latecomers will be admitted during a suitable gap in the performance. Latecomers may not be admitted at all at the request of some visiting companies. In this case, no refunds will be available.
Guide Dogs are welcome and bowls of water supplied.
Hearing Enhancements
A hearing loop is available for both performance spaces. Please enquire at the Box Office when you arrive at the venue. A £5 returnable deposit is required.
Disabled Parking
A variety of street parking and secure car park options are available nearby with the nearest facilities including: • St John’s Shopping Centre (long stay) • The Light (long stay) There are also several disabled parking spaces on Cookridge Street, just around the corner from the entrance to The Carriageworks.
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How to Book & Seating
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How to Book Tickets
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By Phone
Concessions & Group Discounts
0113 224 3801
Concessions generally available for LeedsCard holders, NUS card holders, the unwaged, under 16s and OAPs at the advertised concessionary price.
Box office open: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm except show days, when open until 15 mins after the start of the performance. Sundays open 30 mins prior to start of performance.
Family tickets are sometimes available. This will be indicated on individual show pages. These enable you to buy tickets at a specially reduced rate for two adults with two children or one adult with three children.
Online www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk
Please contact the Box Office for discounts on group bookings, school trips and visits with accompanying carers or social workers on 0113 224 3801.
In Person Go to the City Centre Box Office on the ground floor of The Carriageworks. Tickets are also available from the Leeds Visitor Centre at Leeds City Station.
See individual show listings for prices.
Main Auditorium Seating T
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9 10
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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Price band B
Price band C
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In our Main Auditorium listings you will sometimes find two prices, for example £11, £9. These refer to our price bands. Price band A is the more expensive and represents our premium seats, while Price band B is the lower price and represents our standard seats. Concessions are often available. Occasionally band C seats are made available at a special discount rate. All seating in our studio space, upstairs@thecarriageworks, is unreserved. Please call Box Office for further information. Online bookings have a fee of 50p per ticket. Tickets are non refundable. Tickets can be exchanged for £1 per ticket up to 48 hours before the performance.
VENUE
PRODUCTION
Main Auditorium
THE FANTASIST’S WALTZ
6
upstairs@thecarriageworks
JERUSALEM TANGO
6
2
Main Auditorium
HENNING WEHN: NO SURRENDER
13
3
Main Auditorium
ISY SUTTIE: PEARL & DAVE
13
3
Main Auditorium
PAUL FOOT: STILL LIFE
13
8
Main Auditorium
THE PIRATE PROJECT
7
1 1 – 26
PAGE
10
Main Auditorium
BIG DADDY Vs GIANT HAYSTACKS
7
16 – 19
Main Auditorium
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
15
24 – 26
Main Auditorium
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
16
29
Main Auditorium
ALEX HORNE: SEVEN YEARS IN THE BATHROOM
14
30 MAY – 10 JUN Various locations jun
BREEZE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FESTIVAL
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VENUE
PRODUCTION
PAGE
TO 10
Various locations
BREEZE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FESTIVAL
6
Main Auditorium
Hairy Maclary & Friends
3
7
Whole venue
BREEZE: INCLUDE ARTS AFTERNOON
20
8
Main Auditorium
RIOT
8
9
Main Auditorium
BIYF LIVE! @ THE CARRIAGEWORKS
19
19
12 & 13
upstairs@thecarriageworks
THE TRICK
9
13 – 16
Main Auditorium
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
16
upstairs@thecarriageworks
THIS WAY UP
3
17 – 30
16
Various locations
EMERGE: SUMMERFEST
10
18
Main Auditorium
KIN
9
22 – 30
Main Auditorium
PROMISED LAND
11
27 – 30
upstairs@thecarriageworks
THE PRICE
VENUE
PRODUCTION
3 – 28
upstairs@thecarriageworks
A BIG DAY FOR THE GOLDBERGS
4–7
Main Auditorium
MANON
17
11
Main Auditorium
CAN YOU DIG IT?
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17 PAGE
12
13 & 14
Main Auditorium
HERE WE GO AGAIN DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA
21
20 & 21
Main Auditorium
CIRQUE DU LA’FAY
21
30 – 31
upstairs@thecarriageworks
DEIRDRE & ME
12
28
Main Auditorium
GOLD & FLYING LIKE A BIRD
22
29
Main Auditorium
THE SNAIL & THE WHALE
4
27
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Leeds Shopping Plaza
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How to find us The Carriageworks is located in The Electric Press development (next to All Bar One) on Millennium Square, just off Great George Street. By car, we can be accessed on the Inner Ring Road often labelled ‘Loop Traffic’. We are just a short walk from Leeds City Train Station.
Contact us The Carriageworks The Electric Press, Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD Box Office: 0113 224 3801 or boxoffice@leeds.gov.uk Conferencing: 0113 395 2157 Arts Planning: 0113 247 4746 Operations: 0113 395 2160 or 0113 395 0307 Email: carriageworks@leeds.gov.uk
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