Programme
LIFT has landed! Here you can find details of the events in LIFT 2010 - across the major venues and hidden spaces of London this summer.
Wednesday 23rd June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Food Court
Australian company Back to Back Theatre creates new forms of contemporary theatre imagined from the minds and experiences of a unique ensemble of actors with disabilities, giving voice to social and political issues that speak to all people. They will be bringing their latest project Food Court to London this summer for its UK premiere, presented by barbicanbite10, as part of LIFT 2010.
Thursday 24th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Friday 25th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Continuous City
Blending live performance and media, New York's critically acclaimed The Builders Association bring their multi-media theatre experience Continuous City to the UK for the first time.
Saturday 26th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Sunday 27th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Gloves On
At the internationally renowned boxing centre, the Peacock Gym, Ragroof Theatre present Gloves On; a site-specific theatre performance that investigates the intricacies of courage and honour, ritual and spectatorship
Gloves On
At the internationally renowned boxing centre, the Peacock Gym, Ragroof Theatre present Gloves On; a site-specific theatre performance that investigates the intricacies of courage and honour, ritual and spectatorship
Tuesday 29th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Wednesday 30th June
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Best Before
Following its debut at Push Festival, Rimini Protokoll's Best Before arrives in London this summer, as they bring real life to the stage in their own distinct way, with audience and theatre practitioner collaborating to create a performance that blurs the line between reality and fiction.
Thursday 1st July
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Friday 2nd July
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
We Built This City
We Built This City places children in the role of architect, empowering them to construct their ideal city, and during the performance they will make buildings go up, pull them down, redesign them, extend, walk through, jump on, and reconstruct them. We Built This City is not a play… it is play. Polyglot Theatre bring their tour to Waterloo Terrace at the National Theatre for LIFT 2010.
We Built This City
We Built This City places children in the role of architect, empowering them to construct their ideal city, and during the performance they will make buildings go up, pull them down, redesign them, extend, walk through, jump on, and reconstruct them. We Built This City is not a play… it is play. Polyglot Theatre bring their tour to Waterloo Terrace at the National Theatre for LIFT 2010.
Saturday 3rd July
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Life Streaming, Dries Verhoeven
This summer, the stretch of Riverside Walk at the National Theatre will be transformed as groundbreaking artist Dries Verhoeven creates a unique performance exploring the complexities of international aid.
Best Before
Following its debut at Push Festival, Rimini Protokoll's Best Before arrives in London this summer, as they bring real life to the stage in their own distinct way, with audience and theatre practitioner collaborating to create a performance that blurs the line between reality and fiction.
Sunday 4th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Monday 5th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Tuesday 6th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Edmonton-based theatre company Catalyst create - big plays with big ideas, stunning, surreal designs, evocative musical scores, and a heightened approach to language, movement and performance style. This year, they will be bringing their award-winning gothic musical fable to London for the first time, presented by barbicanbite10, as part of LIFT 2010.
Wednesday 7th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Hobb Story: Instructions for Arab Love
Presented by LIFT in association with the British Council and Tunisian Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation
Thursday 8th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Friday 9th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Saturday 10th July
Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Edmonton-based theatre company Catalyst create - big plays with big ideas, stunning, surreal designs, evocative musical scores, and a heightened approach to language, movement and performance style. This year, they will be bringing their award-winning gothic musical fable to London for the first time, presented by barbicanbite10, as part of LIFT 2010.
Sunday 11th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Monday 12th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Tuesday 13th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
Wednesday 14th July
F*ck My Life
Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival, LIFT and Campo in association with the Everyman Palace Theatre Cork, a group of young people explore the question: What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence? Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. Why do young people end their lives?
Beloved
As part of the 2010 festival, LIFT presents Beloved; a live performance by the American performance artist Nicole Blackman at Rainham Hall.
Thursday 15th July
Not by Bread Alone
Eleven deafblind actors, eleven stories, one theatrical experience you will never forget in the UK premiere of Not By Bread Alone, by Nalaga'at Theatre Company.
F*ck My Life
Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival, LIFT and Campo in association with the Everyman Palace Theatre Cork, a group of young people explore the question: What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence? Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. Why do young people end their lives?
Oxygen
Oxygen is an explosive late night mix of words, music and dance: a raw, visceral take on the Ten Commandments for a dispossessed generation by one of Russia’s leading playwrights and film makers Ivan Vyrypaev.
Beloved
As part of the 2010 festival, LIFT presents Beloved; a live performance by the American performance artist Nicole Blackman at Rainham Hall.
Friday 16th July
F*ck My Life
Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival, LIFT and Campo in association with the Everyman Palace Theatre Cork, a group of young people explore the question: What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence? Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. Why do young people end their lives?
Oxygen
Oxygen is an explosive late night mix of words, music and dance: a raw, visceral take on the Ten Commandments for a dispossessed generation by one of Russia’s leading playwrights and film makers Ivan Vyrypaev.
Beloved
As part of the 2010 festival, LIFT presents Beloved; a live performance by the American performance artist Nicole Blackman at Rainham Hall.
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Saturday 17th July
F*ck My Life
Commissioned by Cork Midsummer Festival, LIFT and Campo in association with the Everyman Palace Theatre Cork, a group of young people explore the question: What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence? Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. Why do young people end their lives?
Oxygen
Oxygen is an explosive late night mix of words, music and dance: a raw, visceral take on the Ten Commandments for a dispossessed generation by one of Russia’s leading playwrights and film makers Ivan Vyrypaev.
Beloved
As part of the 2010 festival, LIFT presents Beloved; a live performance by the American performance artist Nicole Blackman at Rainham Hall.
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Sunday 18th July
Oxygen
Oxygen is an explosive late night mix of words, music and dance: a raw, visceral take on the Ten Commandments for a dispossessed generation by one of Russia’s leading playwrights and film makers Ivan Vyrypaev.
Beloved
As part of the 2010 festival, LIFT presents Beloved; a live performance by the American performance artist Nicole Blackman at Rainham Hall.
Friday 23rd July
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Saturday 24th July
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Monday 26th July
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Friday 30th July
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Saturday 31st July
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Friday 6th August
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Saturday 7th August
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.
Friday 13th August
Hotel Medea
A provocative interpretation of the dark revenge myth of Medea. Hotel Medea is suspended between the cruelty of the night and the soberness of the day. By resolving to stay awake we insist on life and resist death.