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End of year shows

Lift Off 2022: Friday 13 May

13.00 - 18.40
13 May 2022
Various

Join us at Lift Off 2022 to celebrate our Dance, Theatre and Performance, and Performing Arts students' work.

Can't make it in person? Livestream the event on YouTube.

Programme

Three women in a space. It is about the past, present and future. There is love. There are friendships. There is body image. We draw and leave a mark on what has happened before.

Director / Writer / Performers: Megan Meakin, Courteney Shimwell & Keesha Thomas

Venue: Theatre

Time: 13:00-13:40

Music Credits: You’ve got a friend in me by Randy Newman, With a little help from my friends by The Beatles, We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn, Sailors, Soldiers & Airmen of her Majesty's Forces, Roland Shaw and his Orchestra.

Direct booking link

Black Canvas. Embracing black excellence, beauty and upbringing.Join us on a path of self-discovery, self-love and self-recognition through spoken word, song, movement, and truth.

Directors and Writers: Shalis Bettison and Evie Lerato

Performers: Shalis Bettison, Evie Lerato and Conrad Gourlay

Venue: Black Box

Time: 14:00-14:40

Music credits: All For Us’’ -Labrinth and Zendaya, ‘’Distance’’ -Lucky Daye x Giveon Type Beat, ‘’If I Lose You’’ - Frank Ocean Type Beat.

Direct booking link

What happens to a struggling rockstar after they’ve passed the pinnacle of their fame?

Director / Writer / Performer: Gordon Rae

Venue: Theatre

Time: 15:00-16:30

Direct booking link

This is a show that will make you laugh.

It’s also a show that will (hopefully) make you intrigued, curious, excited even. It’s an appallingly upper-class one-woman show.

It’s a murder mystery. It’s absolutely hilarious and ridiculous.

You’ll be in pure hysterics (again, hopefully), but can youguess whodunnit?

Director/Writer/Performer: Maryah Hassan

Venue: Theatre

Time: 15:00-16:30

Anger, love, lust and taking too much. I have questions to explore and confessions to make. The truth will hurt but it’s for my own sake.

Director / Writer / Performers names: Robyn Sutherland

Venue: Black Box

Time: 16:40-17:50

Direct booking link

The courteous badgers and festering gutter rats that polarise our society are mirrors. Everything is logical when it's explained fully. Can we hear a few words for the smudge on the floor?

Director / Writer / Performer: Conrad Gourlay

Venue: Black Box

Time: 16:40-17:50

This work is inspired by the five different stages of grief and presented through narrative imagery. This is a heartfelt evocation of the death of a relationship, that aims to resonate with human experience.

Choreographer: Gerard White

Performers: Olivia Richards, Gerard White

Venue: Theatre

Time: 18:20-18:40

Music Credits:Nils Frahm: Old Friend, SHY FX ft Stamina MC & Lily Allen: Roll The Dice, Anne Müller: Being Anne.

Ticket not required - event open to LBU staff and students.