Red Ladder Theatre Company

Red Ladder Theatre Company is a national touring theatre company, funded by the Arts Council England and Leeds City Council. It is based at the Yorkshire Dance Centre, Leeds.

The company was founded in London in 1968, during the Vietnam War, as a radical socialist theatre known as agitprop. The company moved to Leeds in the 1970s and is still based in the city. During the 1980s, the company changed its co-operative structure to a hierarchy and became a company that specialised in targeted work for youth audiences.

In 2011, it ran a play called Promised Land, an adaptation of Anthony Clavane's book about Leeds United.[1]

Today the company:

Red Ladder's Arts Council funding will cease from April 2015. In response to a fundraising campaign to save the company, author David Peace has donated the theatre rights to his novel The Damned Utd.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Actors wanted to star in new Leeds United drama". South Yorkshire Times. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  2. ↑ Robinson, Paul (5 March 2012). "East Leeds: Focus on Garforth Arts Festival". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "David Peace's Damned United donation boosts theatre company". BBC News. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

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