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02 Jul 2025, 19:00 – 05 Jul 2025, 19:00York, Lower Friargate, York YO1 9SL, UKLaura Lomas's play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes. A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Tickets available: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ridinglights/e-lkzzga
10 Dec 2024, 19:00 – 12 Dec 2024, 19:00York, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKOut of Character have partnered with York Theatre Royal youth theatre to create a show about building mental health toolboxes for teenagers—resources to help them navigate life’s challenges. Our story revolves around emotional illiteracy.
14 May 2024, 19:30York, St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD, UKIf you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose
25 May 2023, 18:30Studio Theatre, St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD, UKThe world has broken. Its colours have drained away. All seems lost. But in the cracks, and amidst the broken pieces, something strange is happening. Something that disturbs, unsettles and surprises. Out of Character presents Shattered - A startling show where the impossible is about to occur…
15 Dec 2022, 19:00 – 16 Dec 2022, 19:00York, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKBased on the novel by Charles Dickens.
19 Nov 2021, 19:30Quad South Hall, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKYou are about to take part in a theatrical experiment. We have made many of them over the past few years and have explored using satire, sketch comedy, documentary theatre and science fiction to make various provocative and entertaining works...
12 May 2020, 19:00 – 13 May 2020, 19:00York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD, UKIn Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, a persecuted Jewish moneylender finds the opportunity for revenge against an oppressive Christian culture in the most brutal of ways. During his trial he is urged to turn from an act of cruelty to one of compassion.
11 Jun 2019, 19:00 – 12 Jun 2019, 19:00Temple Hall, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKYou may have been here before. We hope you may be here again. You might watch this show and have the strange feeling that you have already seen it. That show was called In/Hospitable and this show is distinct...but also the same.
19 Sept 2018, 19:00 – 20 Sept 2018, 19:00Quad South Hall, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKWelcome to In/Hospitable our new production for 2018 and beyond. We hope you find this show entertaining and thought-provoking; but we should warn you that this is not a play in the conventional sense.
01 Nov 2017, 19:00York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD, UKIn 1814, the magistrate Godfrey Higgins wrote a letter to the Lord Lieutenant explaining the recent abuses at Bootham Park Hospital. He stated that, ‘...something should be done for the relief of those unhappy sufferers, who are the objects of terror and compassion to all around them...’
11 Nov 2016, 19:45York Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Pl, York YO1 7HD, UKDarkly humorous and boldly theatrical. Out of Character return with their revealing new show.
20 Jul 2016, 19:30Theatre 1, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UKThere is a saying in American television comedy that every sketch ever written has at its heart, one of the two following conceits; a mad character interacts with a sane world or a sane character interacts with a mad world. The theme of mental illness, then, also began to show itself in our work.
20 Jul 2016, 19:00Temple Hall, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UK
24 Mar 2015, 19:45York, Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, York YO1 9SL, UK
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