LIFT 2023

An off festival year but with three pop up shows. The Second Woman is finally staged after being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, The Making of Pinocchio returns to BAC and the UK premiere of Cuckoo by Jaha Koo comes to London.

“So popular was The Second Woman, that people queued for hours round the block to get in.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

– Financial Times

“Remarkable expose of the art of acting”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

– The Guardian

“A tour de force”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

– Mail on Sunday

 

The Second Woman, housed at The Young Vic theatre, was a cultural moment which will not soon be forgotten. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience actress Ruth Wilson took to the stage and repeated the same scene, 100 times, with 100 counterparts over 24 hours.

Cuckoo was the opening event for LIFT’s new two-year LIFT the City programme. Designed to support the post pandemic recovery of London’s Square Mile, and in partnership with City of London Corporation, over the next few years LIFT will bring performances, interventions, talks, outdoor events, workplace wellbeing and LIFT festival 2024 to thousands of workers, residents and visitors in the City of London from September. 

The Making of Pinocchio returned to Battersea Arts Centre after completing a successful world tour. Artists Cade and MacAskill returned to London with their latest version of this heartwarming show, first premiered in LIFT 22.

Bat Brunch Lab was in a research and development stage with the co-designers of the project, artists Kuang-Yi Ku (Taipei/Eindhoven) and Robert Johnson (London). This later went on to be called Bat Banquet, and finally Bat Night Market in LIFT 2024, staged at Science Gallery London. Going from a brunch dining experience to an immersive night market where food tastings were still a core element.

The Second Woman

Cuckoo

The Making of Pinocchio