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Red Ladder

December 2023

  • ‘We have a non-traditional audience who are very supportive of our work’ … Cheryl Martin, new AD of Red Ladder Theatre Company.

    ‘Red Ladder shares a lot of my DNA’: radical Yorkshire theatre company’s new leader Cheryl Martin

    The organisation’s incoming artistic director shares plans to tour a ‘massive immersive experience’ to empty spaces across the country

February 2019

  • Glory

    Glory review – get in the ring for a wrestle with racism

  • Julie Hesmondhalgh as Mother Courage

    Mother Courage on the long road to Manchester – in pictures

October 2018

  • Pauline McLynn in Mother Courage and Her Children

    Mother Courage and Her Children review – Brecht classic rolls into Leeds warehouse

    Keeping the audience on the move, Red Ladder’s 50th-anniversary production stars Pauline McLynn

March 2016

  • Brian Clough, left, and Bill Shankly, at the 1974 FA Charity Shield game at Wembley.

    The Damned United hits Leeds: club graffiti, family hostility – and a 14-plus swear rating

    David Peace’s modern classic The Damned United is being staged in Leeds, a city with no great love for its subject: charismatic, alcoholic football manager Brian Clough. Mark Lawson on the fans, the opposition – and bringing ballet shoes to Elland Road

October 2014

  • David Peace.

    David Peace: why I'm letting Red Ladder stage The Damned United

    The novelist has handed over the rights to his Brian Clough novel to the radical Yorkshire theatre company
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