Leeds Arts Centre is a prestigious amateur theatre group which presents a wide variety of plays at the Carriageworks Theatre on Millennium Square in Leeds.
We offer opportunities to all who are interested in becoming involved with any aspect of drama, including acting, directing, stage management, props, designing, costumes, lighting, sound, publicity and front of house.
Neil Rathmell’s new play, Rough Sleepers, is set in an overgrown graveyard outside a disused chapel. Just the place for a ‘gentleman of the road’ to take shelter for the winter with only the quiet sleepers in their graves for company. The vicar makes him welcome, but some of her parishioners take a different view.
Just right for the Hallowe’en season, with humour and pathos, thunder and lightning, birdsong, music and pyrotechnics!
This is the third time Leeds Arts Centre has premiered one of Neil Rathmell’s plays.
The @LeedsCAN Guild Awards 2018 were on September 1st, and LAC had 11 nominations from our 2017-18 season – well done to our three winners, and to all of our nominees!
Best Female Supporting Performance (in a dramatic production)
- Enya Lucas – Steel Magnolias
- Carol Bell – Steel Magnolias
- Margaret Savage – Charley’s Aunt
- Olivia Richardson – The Colin Atkins Story
Best Male Supporting Performance (Audrey Raynor trophy for a dramatic production)
- Joe Saxon – Blood and Ice
- Howard Russell – Charley’s Aunt – Winner
Best Female Performance (in a dramatic production)
- Jessica Glanz – Blood and Ice
Commitment in a Non-Acting Role (Freda McHale trophy)
- Jenny Carter & Zoë Freedman
Outstanding Service Award
- Mary Nelson – Winner
Best Visual Presentation (Sybil Jenkins trophy)
Best Play (Pearl Baxter Rose Bowl)
- Blood and Ice – Winner
