Elevator Festival, a festival of new works, returns to Newcastle’s Live Theatre between June and July, with the festival including shows, installations, talks and socials as well as other highlights.
With no in-house theatre production since ‘Love It if We Beat Them’ back in March (after the cancellation of Nadine Shah’s To Be A Young Man), Elevator Festival will give creatives the chance to get productions on stage and audiences the chance to see some fascinating theatre.
Here are just a few highlights:
Ghosts of Metroland is about two teens who ‘navigate the often treacherous boundary between tweendom and adulthood and find themselves embroiled in a dangerous adventure.’ Directed by Jamie Eastlake, Ghosts of Metroland comes to Elevator Festival hoping to play on the nostalgia trip that Live Theatre has banked on its audiences enjoying this year. Remember Europe’s largest indoor rollercoaster? This scratch, written by Reece Connolly, could be the Geordie’s (of a certain age) favourite.
I Dream of Theresa May, written by Vivek Nityananda, is a story set in 2013 after the supreme court of India overturns a previous judgement and upholds a colonial law criminalising homosexuality. Three queer Indians living in the UK are left in a state of limbo, not belonging to the UK but criminals if they return to India.
With the festival running from June 27th to July 8th, this is a highlight of the summer for many theatre-goers (myself included). It’s certain to be an exciting eight days, filled with shows, installations, workshops, masterclasses, talks, scratched, socials/networking events and more.
For further information and tickets, head to live.org.uk.
