This workshop for theatre and creative industries professionals introduces the process of planning and delivering a dementia friendly performance. Practical and interactive, the session encourages theatres and arts centres to take their first steps in welcoming audiences living with dementia, and includes an opportunity to shadow the West Yorkshire Playhouse team during a dementia friendly […]
Read MoreThe story of a Rothwell couple who attend dementia friendly performances at West Yorkshire Playhouse has been told on BBC1’s Look North programme. Tuesday 17 January saw the dementia friendly performance of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical, welcoming people living with dementia and their friends and family to experience an adapted performance where audience […]
Read MoreA guide instructing theatres on how to stage performances for people living with dementia is being published by West Yorkshire Playhouse in Dementia Awareness Week. West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Guide To Dementia Friendly Performances provides best practice advice based on its award-winning performance model, in which the theatre-going experience is specifically tailored to meet the needs […]
Read MoreFormer Brookside neighbours Eithne Browne and John McArdle have been cast in a new play at Leeds Playhouse by award-winning writer Frances Poet that shines a light into the experience of living with dementia. Directed by Jemima Levick, Maggie May is an extraordinary play about an ordinary Leeds family learning to cope with a life-changing […]
Read MoreMaggie May, a new play by Frances Poet, is to be staged in Spring 2020 in a co-production by Leeds Playhouse and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. This inspiring, incisive and uplifting play signifies a strong commitment by each of the venues to creating new, positive work about people living with dementia. Directed by Jemima Levick, Maggie […]
Read MoreLeeds Playhouse’s pioneering festival of theatre, dementia and hope Every Third Minute, has won a National Dementia Care Award in the ‘Outstanding Arts and Creativity in Dementia Care’ category. The awards, which took place at the UK Dementia Congress on Thursday 8 November in Brighton, highlight the excellence, innovation and best practice taking place throughout […]
Read MoreLeeds Playhouse has been announced as finalists in the National Dementia Care Awards’ ‘Outstanding Arts and Creativity in Dementia Care’ category for the Every Third Minute Festival which took place earlier this year. An ambitious and innovative festival of theatre, dementia and hope, Every Third Minute was the very first theatre festival of its kind […]
Read MoreContinuing our award-winning work with people living with dementia, West Yorkshire Playhouse today announced the programme for Every Third Minute: a festival of theatre, dementia and hope. The first of its kind, the festival has been curated by people living with dementia and their supporters, acknowledging every third minute in the UK someone will begin […]
Read MoreWest Yorkshire Playhouse, the UK’s foremost dementia friendly theatre having introduced the world’s first dementia friendly performance, has been awarded £99,950 from Arts Council England National Lottery funding to produce a Festival of Theatre and Dementia. Exploring the experience of living with dementia through creative activity, the Festival will create new opportunities for older people […]
Read MoreWith Rachelle Mahapatra, Regional Managing Partner, Leeds at Irwin Mitchell, on how the law firm became the Playhouse’s Access Partner ten years ago ‘Our relationship with the Playhouse began informally when we arranged a successful trip for about 30 disabled children, their siblings, parents and staff to the Christmas show. Then, ten years ago, it […]
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