Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal founded LIFT as young graduates from Warwick University, hoping to “challenge British theatre and open a window on the world”. The performances presented in the festival had never been seen in the UK before, and were experimental and political in nature.
Artists and companies
Lucho Ramírez- Cuatrotablas
Caminatas e Insomnios (Wandering and Sleeplessness) at ICA
Peru
Die Vaganten
Urfaust after Goethe at Tricycle Theatre
West Germany
Greta Chute Libre
Glâces (Mirrors) at Old Half Moon
France
Grupo de Teatro Macunaíma
Macunaíma at Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Brazil
Het Werkteater
Zus of Zo (One of Them) at ICA
Netherlands
Suasana
Jentayu at Shaw Theatre
Malaysia
Tamagawa
Bekkanko - An Ogre at Tricycle Theatre
Japan
Teatr Ósmego Dnia (Theatre of the 8th Day)
More than Just One Life Oh, How Nobly We Lived at New Half Moon
Poland
Teatr Provisorium
It is Not for Us to Fly to the Islands of Happiness at ICA
Poland
Medieval Players, Natural Theatre, Ompholos, The Beach Buoys, and others
Street Theatre at Covent Garden Piazza, Paternoster Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the South Bank
UK
Forkbeard Fantasy, Lol Coxhill, Mike Westbrook and others
Festival Club at The Piccadilly Suite, Piccadilly Hotel
UK
