On stage tonight at the Workshop Theatre, and as part of the continuing collaboration between the the Leeds Met Gallery Theatre and Studio and the WT, we have Faulty Optic. World renowned for its haunting tales, visual theatre, strange animated figures and dark humour, Faulty Optic presents the eccentric, droll and compassionate new production.. FishClayPerspex...
The Workshop Theatre is delighted to welcome Dr Chukwuma Okoye to join us. Dr Okoye – usually known as Chuks – comes to us from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. he has won a highly prestigious Newton International Fellowship to research at Leeds for the next two years, looking at popular theatre forms in...
Miller’s classic, which is being directed by final year Workshop Theatre students Eloise Colin and Laura Nagel, will be performed at Stage@Leeds next Wed-Sat (28th-31st). Would be great to see you there. Below is a preview that will be published this Friday in Leeds Student Arts section. What is the play about? One man’s struggle...
It’s time to blog ‘The Trial’… As most of you will (hopefully!) have heard, the WT is venturing out into student productions with a production of the trial this year. We are officially two weeks into our rehearsal process, with two weeks remaining… it’s having to be a fairly speedy process… In terms of what’s...
Written and Directed by Max Dorey Amy Marchant Rebekah Ricketts Nick Coupe Ed Attrill Share on Facebook
The Scatter Collective are a new theatre company, with a few faces most of you would recognise. Cara, Becky & Shooee, all recent graduates, have had plenty of success recently with ‘Mapped’ (a review is below) and the good news is that they’re hoping to bring the show to the Workshop Theatre in February 2010....
from the Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery & Studio Theatre website: The new season begins! Opening with Oliver Bray’s Villa (14 & 15 October) the theatre season begins this week. Oliver’s funny one-man show is the perfect opening to this mobile season which starts at the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds and ends in the Leeds...
Anyone who fancies getting to grips with our film making equipment… including the Sony Anycast (pictured) should get in touch with me soon. We’re looking for someone to make a film of the trial and we expect a fair few volunteers… so don’t think about it for too long… get in touch now. We also...
The curtain has gone up on this year’s light night and the Workshop Theatre is turning people away at the door. Seems the early threat of rain hasn’t dampened spirits and audiences are turning out in force. Steve Bottom’s is on next at 9pm – it’s not too late to get here, but it might...
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This year, for the first time on Light Night, the Workshop Theatre (School of English) is opening its doors to present a varying collection of events to challenge and intrigue… The schedule is hectic (not unlike that which you might find scrawled outside an Edinburgh fringe venue) but I’ll try to explain it as best...
Some photos from the fantastic weekend workshop the third years did with IOU Theatre. Those of us that took part all had a great time and created some work that we could be proud of in just 2 days. It was also pretty refreshing to work towards purely aesthetic goals rather than getting bogged down...
