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Following Leeds City Council’s recent cultural programme announcement, we are thrilled to reveal our plans to create a Leeds Peoples Theatre in our home city.

Leeds Peoples Theatre is a major new initiative that will see us combine the participation of hundreds of citizen performers with a core professional team of theatre artists to make large scale outdoor political theatre adventures in Leeds. It’s a regular programme of participation and training open to all the people of Leeds that every few years expresses itself in a new maurauding piece of theatre in the city. The programme will start in 2018 and the first show will be in 2020.

Slung Low will continue to run free rehearsal space for local artists, make work for national commissioners and present visiting companies’ work. At its heart this is a commitment to make exciting epic work on the streets of city with the people of Leeds.
We’re so excited about it and will keep you updated here as plans develop.

This month we start rehearsals with the brilliant theatre maker Rani Moorthy (above in Flood), Rasa and Contact Theatre for an immersive new project, Handlooms which will open in Alankar House of Sarees in Manchester in March.

Our weekly HUB choir sessions also return in early March, rehearsing on Tuesday evenings from 7pm with hot, home-cooked food served from 6.30pm. It is completely free to attend and new members can sign up to take part here.

The HUB’s spring season kicks off this Sunday; a full line up of the visiting shows can be found here. This month both Brennan Reece and Police Cops in Space are now fully booked but you can still grab a seat for The Death Show, a “brave, tenacious, funny and deeply thought provoking” performance on death and dying. Looking ahead to the beginning of March we welcome Leeds’ own Uncanny Theatre for their new show Outrage. ‘They say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Let’s find out.’

And finally mark the date in your diary – we will be hosting a fundraiser at the HUB for our friends Yorkshire Aid on Friday 16th March with The Commoners Choir headlining an evening of entertainment. More to be revealed soon.

As ever, do keep in touch with us via Facebook and Twitter and we hope to see you back at the HUB soon.

Slung Low x