Left Luggage Theatre

Scratch My City at Soho Theatre

Left Luggage — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:45:12 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre have been asked by theatre collective Forward Theatre Project to explore ‘reversing the process.’ Left Luggage have created visual concepts based on Mick Jackson’s Ten Sorry Tales, to present to Forward Theatre’s writer-director teams. Four pairings are then given the challenge to respond to the design idea and create a scratch performance. This time, the design not the script comes first…

Forward Theatre Project are committed to creating a community amongst emerging theatre artists from all over the UK and ‘Scratch My City’ is the company’s venture into cross-region collaboration.

Scratch My City will be on 30th October, 7.45pm at Soho Theatre, London.
For more information go to Forward Theatre Project and to book tickets go to Soho Theatre.

A Night At The Half Moon Hotel at GIFT

Left Luggage — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:46:30 +0000

Over just two weeks Left Luggage and our talented collaborators created a piece of new theatre inspired by Gateshead at The Central Bar for the opening night of GIFT (Gateshead International Festival of Theatre).

A sell out crowd discovered intimate performance, dance, live singing immersive installation and a right royal knees up!

Special thanks to our artist collaborators: Tim Bennett, Laurie Sheppard, Hannah Butterfield, Rochnee Mehta, Isaac Sakima and Beth Coverdale.

To find out more information on GIFT click here.

Photo credit: Nathan Crawley

A Night At The Half Moon Hotel at GIFT 11

Left Luggage — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:06:00 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre present A Night At The Half Moon Hotel at The Central, Gateshead 8pm Friday, 29th April 2011.

Over two weeks Left Luggage and our collaborators will create a not-to-be missed performance event in the labyrinthine public house, The Central.

The audience will discover something old, something new and celebrate love, longing and the call of the sea. Intimate performance, dance, live music, immersive installation and a right royal knees up!

Special thanks to our artist collaborators: Tim Bennett, Laurie Sheppard, Hannah Butterfield, Rochnee Mehta, Isaac Sakima and Beth Coverdale.

Tickets are on sale now!

GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, 29th April – 1st May 2011

GIFT will bring together new theatre makers from around the world for an explosive weekend of performances, workshops and discussions. Launching in and around Gateshead town centre over a bank-holiday weekend, GIFT events will take place at Gateshead Old Town Hall, The Central Bar and The Shed Creative Studios.

Tickets on sale at Gateshead Old Town Hall

Festival Passes will be priced at: £30 Full/£20 Student

Alveus at the Society of British Theatre Designers’ Exhibition

Left Luggage — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:56:18 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre have been exhibiting images and models from our 2009 production Alveus, amongst a selection of the most innovative and ground breaking designs for performance realised between 2007 to 2011 by some of the UK’s most talented and prolific theatre designers at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Here are some images of our Alveus models made by Anna Harding. Last chance to catch the exhibition this week as it closes on 16th April.

Left Luggage at Society of British Theatre Designers’ Exhibition

Left Luggage — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:35:48 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre will be exhibiting images and models from our 2009 production Alveus, amongst a selection of the most innovative and ground breaking designs for performance realised between 2007 to 2011 by some of the UK’s most talented and prolific theatre designers.

Left Luggage Theatre will be the first theatre company to exhibit at the Society of British Theatre Designers’ four yearly exhibition as a collective of theatre makers.

‘Transformation & Revelation’ UK Design for Performance 2007 – 2011 at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. This is a unique opportunity to preview this extraordinary collection of work before it travels in part to represent the UK at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition this summer. A selection of designs will be on display at the V&A from 17th March – 30th September 2012 and will also be available as a UK touring exhibition.

For more information visit the Society of British Theatre Designers.

Left Luggage at Gateshead International Festival of Theatre!

Left Luggage — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:35:09 +0000

Left Luggage are excited to announce they will be creating the opening evening event at Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT).

Watch this space to find out how we get on!

GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, 29th April – 1st May 2011

An international festival for new theatre makers

Tickets will be on sale from 14th March at Gateshead Old Town Hall

Festival Passes will be priced at: £30 Full/£20 Student
Early Bird Offer: £25 Full/£15 Student (Available 14th March – 1st April)

Enchanted Parks Photos…

Left Luggage — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:58:57 +0000

For more beautiful images of our winter installation at Enchanted Parks visit our Facebook page!

A Gateshead Fairytale at Enchanted Parks 10

Left Luggage — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:59:13 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre have been working with the talented pupils of Caedmon Primary and Brighton Avenue Primary in Gateshead to create story jars to become part of our installation, A Gateshead Fairytale at Enchanted Parks from 8th to 12th Dec in Saltwell Park.

Thomas the Story Keeper visited the children and asked them to capture the magic moments from the Brothers Grimm tales he told. The children have created beautiful, miniature scenes in hundreds of glass jars that will be set amongst the trees and lit by fairy lights while the children’s voices tell their favourite stories in the wintry darkness.

Left Luggage would like to give special thanks to the children and staff at Brighton Avenue Primary School and Caedmon Primary School, Gateshead.

Tickets are selling fast for Enchanted Parks 10 – to book yours click here.

Special thanks to the artists involved in A Gateshead Fairytale school’s workshops: Bethan Maddocks, Verity Quinn and Tom Walton.

Enchanted Parks 2010: A Gateshead Fairytale

Left Luggage — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:29:46 +0000

Enchanted Parks, part of NewcastleGateshead Winter Festival returns in December. Specially commissioned artworks celebrating a Gateshead Winter’s Tale will transform Saltwell Park into a wonderful setting for after-dark fairy tales for all the family. Left Luggage Theatre are proud to be among the commissioned artists to take part.

Left Luggage Theatre will capture childhood imagination, like fireflies, in hundreds of glass jars set sparkling amongst the magical woodland. Look closely into each jar to see the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales alive in miniature and listen carefully to the delicate music in the trees and child’s voices telling their favourite tales.

From afar it will look like falling stars have been caught amongst the branches and when you venture near a feast of detail becomes clear when each jar tells a story.

For more information and to book tickets go to Enchanted Parks

Dancing in Gateshead

Left Luggage — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:30:05 +0000

Left Luggage Theatre spent a jam packed three days working with three talented young dancers at the old Brighton Road Presbyterian Church, Gateshead before it lives again in a new guise as artist’s studio.

The company played with storytelling through space, object and the body and came away with some exciting new creative avenues to explore.

A big thank you to Peter Groom, Catherine Muckle and Isaac Quinn for their hard work and creative energy.

Many thanks to Mushroom Works for allowing us to use their beautiful building. For more information contact Brighton Road Studios