1987

In 1987, LIFT presented 40+ companies from U.S.S.R., Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Nigeria, Spain, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Canada, South Africa, the UK, Italy, and the U.S.A.

People

The Oily Cart Company

Box of Tricks (LIFT'87 Children's programme) at Battersea Arts Centre

UK

Umoja

Tiger Fly (LIFT'87 Children's programme) at Battersea Arts Centre

UK

Beverly Bell, Circus Oz, Ethyl Eichelberger, Hattie Hayridge, Jenny Eclair, People show, Raw Sex, Shikisha, The Merry McFun Show, The strange and Frightening James Macabre, and others

The Festival Club

NSK (Irwin and Laibach)

Exhibitions, Films, Music at ICA, Riverside Studios

La Cubana

Street Theatre at South Molton Street and Various locations

Spain

Kufena

New Earth at Riverside Studios

Nigeria

Jim Neu

Duet for Spies (The Whole Story) at The Whole Story

USA

Free Street Theater

Project! - The Cabrini Green Musical at Theatre Royal Stratford East

USA

Ethyl Eichelberger

Great Women From History Leer at ICA

USA

Eduardo Pavlovsky

Potestad at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

Argentina

Compañia Divas

Donna Giovanni at Shaw Theatre

Mexico

Circus Oz

Circus Oz at The Big Top, Coin Street South Bank

Australia

Anatoli Vasiliev & Company

Cerceau at Riverside Studios

USSR

Needcompany

Need to Know at The Place

Belgium

NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), Kosmokinetical Theatre Red Pilot

Fiat at Riverside Studios

Yugoslavia

Pop-Up Children’s Theatre

Spilt Milk (LIFT'87 Children's programme) at Almeida Theatre, Festival Club

UK

All Day Suckers

Don Quixote (LIFT'87 Children's programme) at Almeida Theatre, Festival Club

UK

Vusisizwe Players

You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock at Riverside Studios,Watermans Arts Centre, Albany Empire

South Africa

Théâtre Repère 

The Dragon's Trilogy at Institute of Contemporary Arts

Canada

South East Asia Arts Project and Pip Simmons

Gor Hoi (Crossing the Water) (produced by Artsadmin) at Shadwell Basin

UK

Pep Bou

Bufaplanetes at Battersea Arts Centre

Spain

People Show

The Unofficial Heavyweight and Entertainment Championship of the World at Watermans Arts Centre

UK

Teatro Dell’Angolo

Robinson & Crusoe (LIFT'87 Children's programme) at Battersea Arts Centre

Italy

LIFT’87 featured new productions by Anatole Vasiliev, Robert Lepage and George C. Wolfe, a big-top circus and no less than three Festival commissions.