Photo: Jonathan Turner
Photo: Jonathan Turner
Reckless Sleepers Negative Space
Thu 13 – Fri 14 Nov, 7.30pm | 80mins
1stage@leeds
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Stage@leeds is located on the University of Leeds campus, a 20 minute walk from the city centre. From the iconic white clock tower of the Parkinson Building, use one of the handy campus maps on display or follow signs to stage@leeds.
Compass Festival burst into life with the world premiere of Reckless Sleepers' astonishing new show - Negative Space. The UK/Belgium based company renowned for beautifully bold, intelligent and hilarious work are determined get to the bottom of things. Constructing their set before our eyes, a white box, a box for their ideas, ideas that can't be contained. The set, a set of rules that are bent and tested quite literally to destruction. The fur will fly and walls will come down. Indefinable...
A sequel to the extraordinary Schrodinger. Rarely do gripping physicality, mesmerising visuals, ritual and poetry come together so completely as they do with Reckless Sleepers in this world premiere. On stage is a white room: it might be upside down, they’re not sure. There are hatches and doors, comings and goings. Laws are made, bent then broken. We’re never far from chaos and often astonished by the beauty that pierces the ever-frantic attempts to make meaning.
“That black box might well, in the final analysis, be a metaphor for the mind, but it is also a space for gripping physical theatre.”
The Guardian (on Schrodinger)
Of this Room
Oliver Bray
Thu 13 – Fri 14 Nov
1stage@leeds
6.30pm | 30 mins, Free to Reckless Sleepers ticket holders
Collecting Fireworks
Helen Cole/In Between Time
Fri 14 – Sun 16 Nov
3Gallery Munro House
Book a slot | 30 mins, FREE
We See Fireworks
Helen Cole
Fri 14 – Sun 23 Nov
3Gallery Munro House
10am–6pm (10am-1.30pm on 23 Nov) | Drop-in, FREE
If You Go Away – Chapter One
Invisible Flock
Wed 19 – Sun 23 Nov
7Everyman Cinema
Wed-Fri: 4.30pm–9pm, Sat & Sun: 1pm-6pm | Drop-in, FREE
The Making of If You Go Away
Invisible Flock
Thu 20 Nov
7Everyman Cinema
6pm–8pm | 120 mins, FREE, Booking essential
A Building of Community
Live Art Bistro Takeover
Fri 21 Nov
13Holy Trinity Church
8pm–11pm | Drop in, Drop out, FREE
Table Manners
Quarantine
Fri 21 – Sat 22 Nov
13Holy Trinity Church
slots between 11am & 2.30pm | 30 mins, FREE, Booking essential
Personal Shopper
Katie Etheridge & Simon Persighetti
Fri 21 – Sat 22 Nov
9Leeds Kirkgate Market
9am–5pm | Drop-in, FREE
Pat it, Prick it and Mark it with ‘B’
Selina Thompson
Fri 21 – Sat 22 Nov
10Leeds Corn Exchange
10am–5pm | Drop-in, FREE
Where We Live & What We Live For (Parts 1 & 2)
Kings of England
Sat 22 Nov
17West Yorkshire Playhouse
8pm | 60 mins, £8/£6
You Have to Forgive Me You Have to Forgive Me You Have to Forgive Me
Brian Lobel
Sat 22 Nov
1642 New Briggate
10am–7pm | Drop-in, FREE
That Night Follows Day
Forced Entertainment
Sun 23 Nov
18Howard Assembly Room
2pm | 60 mins, FREE, booking essential