Red Ladder Theatre Company Business

Red Ladder Theatre Company

What is the Red Ladder Theatre Company

Red Ladder is a radical theatre company who has been around for 45 years. It is known as ‘Britain’s leading national touring companies producing new theatre. The topics they focus on is social change and global justice. Red Ladder exists to create to create theatre using human struggle. Red ladder is grown up through history as it was founded in London 1968. Red Ladder is funded by Arts Council England and by Leeds City Council.

Who runs this company?

There is on artistic director who is Rod Dixon.  He became an artistic director in 2006 following his previous job role which was associate director at Barbican Theatre in Plymouth.  Also he has ran the Hub Theatre School in Cornwall and he has been a actor in several companies.

There is also a producer which is Chris Lloyd. He has been at Red Ladder as a employee for six years. Chris still loves the talent that he works with at the company. Lloyd heard about Red Ladder at the West Yorkshire Playhouse Rosehill Theatre in Cumbria. He spent three years in the south of Spain and ten years in London.

What performances have they done in the past?

Red Ladder have done many performances but last year they performance ‘Playing The Joker’ which is about Eddie Waring attempt to give rugby league a national profile.  Paul Hatt who has a sports media website said that the performance ‘was really inspiring and it was a tenner well spent’.

What performances do they have coming up?

Currently Red Ladder are performing Nicobobinus which is a story about the most incredible child who was named Nicobobinus. He lived in Venice for a long time and he could do anything. The stage said that

   ‘Kate Unwins fine set is rather magically coloured by imaginative projection’

In February the production ‘ we’re not going back’ will be performed which is the era of the 1984/85. This was the miner strike. It is also a ‘hard hitting musical comedy’. There are no miners. Instead we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village.