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An exciting festival of new work by the postgraduates of the school of Performance and Cultural Industries and performance work by professional and emerging artists with strong connections to PCI.

All performances throughout the day are included in one ticket price of £10*

Tickets available through the stage@leeds box office (0113 343 8730).

And whilst you're here you should 'like' our page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Stages-Festival/369680243048010

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HEADLINE EVENTS:

- Every Building Tells a Story, Every Story Collapses Eventually

devised and performed by Luke Fairbotham, Andrew Roberts and Dani Mosimann

A devised performance created around themes and issues in architecture, construction and identity. An investigation in to how we live our lives and create our social worlds in relation to our environments. This performance mixes comedy, inventive visual techniques with surprisingly moving and poignant moments. Shedding an interesting light on a potentially mundane subject area.

- Christie in Love

by Howard Brenton

Presented by Monkeyheads

‘John Reginald Halliday Christie was born in Halifax, April 1898. He hated his mother, his father and his sisters. His childhood was normal.’

John Christie was one of this countries most infamous serial killers, hiding the corpses of his victims around his rented property in London.

Using both realism and absurdism ‘Christie in Love’ plays with our revulsion to characters like Christie but also our fascination in why and how they have done the deed. This play offers an audience the chance to observe true evil at work. Or is he just another misguided man in love?

‘Love, love. Reggie knows his mind about love… S’all bunk.’

- Plots

Written and directed by Michael Heap

An epic and mystical fantasy story.

Watched over by Moon, Dylan is digging in the outlands whilst Ellie sits with her legs swinging in the pit Dylan has dug, occasionally kicking him. They find the artefact they have been searching for and decide to take it The Watchgoose, their local pub, to see if Aba and Cal are interested in buying it. After a brief run in with the landlord, Blot, the pair settles in the corner, awaiting the arrival of their moneymen. Aba and Cal seem not only uninterested in the necklace but downright worried by it, so worried in fact that they flee the pub and leave their money behind. But what powers does the necklace hold and who will they meet on there journey?

PLUS MANY MORE WORKS CREATED BY PCI POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

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Plus SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER

Brian Lobel.

http://www.blobelwarming.com

Brian will be speaking about the ways in which he goes about creating his compelling, moving and humorous works. DO NOT MISS this event. Brian has performed his unique and intriguing performance to much acclaim internationally. Brian lectures at Queen Mary University London and has won awards from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Wellcome Trust, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs amongst many others.

"I create performances about isolated bodies and the dilemma of community and interactivity. I am interested in all kinds of bodies: politicized bodies, marginalized bodies, dancing and singing bodies, happy bodies, sick bodies and bodies that need a little extra love."

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Plus Special Guest Panel talking about their processes of performances from 3 PCI graduates that are making professional work in and around Leeds and Yorkshire:

Matt Rogers will speak about his unique blend of physical and visual comedy with twisted and dark storytelling techniques and the creation of Fuzzy Logic Theatre Company.

Ellie Harrison will speak the creation of her epic 7 stage Grief Series, a series of works that are devised around the theme of grief. Each stage is a different collaboration with an artist or crafts-person working in a medium different to the performance background that Ellie comes from.

Joanne Hartley will discuss the role of writing within her devising process and go in to detail about her unusual processes for creating theatre and live art performances. With specific focus on the work created for Compass Live Art festival.

FULL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

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* Access to each performance is given on a ‘first come first serve’ basis. Although we endeavour to get everyone in, some performances may have limited seating space so please arrive at the stage in good time to avoid disappointment.

Tickets to individual performances will be available on the day for £5 each - subject to availability. (Precedence will be given to day ticket holders).