Tag: Red Ladder Theatre Company

Powerful play explores men’s mental health issues

With men’s mental health finally getting on to the agenda, a new play, The Parting Glass from Red Ladder Theatre Company, is a welcome addition to the debate. Leeds writer Chris O’Connor has developed his prize winning play The Life And Soul from a one man show into a two

The Parting Glass: a play exploring men’s mental health issues

Red Ladder’s new play The Parting Glass, exploring men’s mental health and the culture of silence that can prevent men from opening up about their experiences, is coming to South Leeds as part of a Yorkshire tour. Jim’s always been a bit of a character – cracking jokes, telling funny

Hit play Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile coming to South Leeds

Freedom Studios’ acclaimed stage adaptation of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile will be performed at three community venues in South Leeds as part of a touring partnership with Red Ladder Theatre Company. Adelle Stripe’s compelling novel recounting the brief and defiant life of the celebrated Yorkshire playwright Andrea Dunbar

Tales of suffragettes and Leeds United in Belle Isle

The acclaimed Red Ladder Theatre Company are bring two plays to south Leeds in November. Wrong ‘Un has been described as a “one-woman suffregette musical.” Its February 1918, and after several decades of protest and four years of bloody war Parliament is poised to grant what the suffragettes have demanded

Red Ladder present The Shed Crew in a Hunslet warehouse

Red Ladder Theatre Company, supported by West Yorkshire Playhouse, presents THE SHED CREW A stage play in verse by Kevin Fegan; adapted from the book URBAN GRIMSHAW AND THE SHED CREW by Bernard Hare 21 September – 1 October: Albion Electric warehouse, Hunslet “We were totally off the lead, we