Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at Leeds Playhouse!

Join us this March for an exhilarating evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools. 

Vivid, rebellious and joyful - Mid Life is a frank, comedic exposé of menopausal Mid Life. Join us as we laugh, roar and disco dance our way through our midlife!

Mid Life sold out in venues across the UK in 2020. Rewritten and revamped, this upbeat, life-affirming show is packed with razor sharp humour and disco. It draws its themes from real life experiences of women in midlife and ends with a dance party for all to join in.

An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging. From the company that produced hit shows Peak Stuff and How Not To Drown.

Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas. Mark and Tiny walk the shore of Seaton Carew in the North East. Their dad is dying, and their town is crumbling. Family rifts and political divides try to pull them apart, while a figure made of driftwood stalks the shore at night.

Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room, a full-length dance production inspired by one of the most important novels of the 20th century, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.

Set in 1950s Paris, the new dance work follows Baldwin’s narrative, influenced by its themes of love, sexuality, guilt, and self-acceptance. All these bearing relevance to identity within the human experience.

The extraordinary true life of Eugene Bullard. This is one of history’s overlooked true stories. This is a name that should be known, a story that must be told. This is a story of hope.

Runaway, circus entertainer, boxer, night club owner, World War One fighter pilot, jazz drummer, spy, civil rights activist – Eugene Bullard’s extraordinary life story traces many of the twentieth century’s most important moments.  

Squidge is Tiggy Bayley’s debut one woman show.

It follows Daisy, a reluctant teaching assistant, as she is assigned a young Irish traveller to help with his reading. Amid phone calls with her grieving mother, a sexy plumber and whale noises, she finds hope in an unlikely friendship.

Directed by Selwin Hulme- Teage, Squidge is a brilliant but devastating one-woman show about those left behind by our education system and the politics of love and hope.

She’s shorter than 5ft and funnier than a 10ft badger. She’s got more energy than a Duracell bunny. It’s that Bradford Pocket Rocket: Kat Rose-Martin. 

Strap in, cause this is a whistle stop tour in the multi-verse of Kat’s mind with short comedy sketches featuring a collection of chaotic characters. She’s written for the BBC, she’s performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, now she’s bringing a little bit of lighthearted silliness and daft laughter to Leeds.