Ambitious projects for adventurous audiences
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Furnace is about creating work with performance makers from West Yorkshire and beyond; placing artists and audiences at the centre of the development and realisation of theatre.
The Giant and The Bear
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Images from The Giant and the Bear play-test workshops 12th-14th October 2011 © Andy Wood
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Posted by Amy Letman
Original Bearings
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Images from Original Bearings by Slung Low 14th-15th October 2011 © Andy Wood
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Posted by Amy Letman
Bear Song
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First development week of The Giant and the Bear as part of Furnace
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Posted by Amy Letman
The Ballerina says…
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I love to work on projects in their very early stages. I love the sense of a new idea bubbling up and taking shape, of all the questions that rapidly come, of trying something just becuase you want to know…
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Posted by Maddie McGowan
Furnace Symposium
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Creating and Producing Theatre in West Yorkshire Saturday 15th October, 4.30pm, Courtyard Theatre This event was live streamed. Watch it here What is it like to be a theatre maker inWest Yorkshire today? What do we want more of, what…
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Posted by Amy Letman
Starting to make The Giant and the Bear
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Tuesday, 11th October, seemed like the first day, although we arrived on Monday bleary eyed, from all over the country. I left Edinburgh at 6.25 am. Dawn didn’t break until Newcastle, which meant that I didn’t see the amazing coast…
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Posted by Amy Letman
Boom Years
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I grew up in Beeston, on top of the hill that looks out over Holbeck and the city – I went to school in Holbeck and have also worked there with South Leeds Youth Theatre in the years since. I’ve…
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Posted by Mark Catley
The start of a new adventure
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Hello. So. Here we are, at the start of a new adventure. I’m going to begin at the end… …for June 2012 we’ve been commissioned by imove (Yorkshire’s cultural programme for London 2012) to create a new…
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Posted by Jon Spooner
This Week
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This week is Furnace week, and it’s all go both from Quarry Hill and over in Holbeck. Slung Low have been working from the HUB for the last couple of weeks making ‘Original Bearings’. For-sale signs have been popping up…
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Posted by Amy Letman
Holbeck is magic
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There are two parts of Original Bearings. There is the performance which happens on the 14th and 15th at 730 or 930 which you can buy tickets for (although you should hurry as there’s only a couple left). That’s great….
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Posted by Amy Letman