Leeds Playhouse is partnering with Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) and RNIB on their Get Set Progress internship programme, creating new employment opportunities for blind and partially sighted people.
It is offering a nine-month, full-time, paid theatre internship, developing an early career artist’s skills through a wide-ranging programme of on-stage and off-stage projects, including working on the Playhouse’s production of Macbeth, directed by Amy Leach, Leeds Playhouse’s Deputy Artistic Director, and getting hands-on experience of planning, facilitating and supporting on projects across the organisation, engaging with a diverse range of participants at the Playhouse and in communities across the city.
105 years since the end of World War I, or would have been known as The Great War at the time, we step into a time whereby the cusp of a global conflict appears very possible, current world events creating a ripple effect, impacting the geopolitics of the day. Crafted over 50 years ago, post World War II, Oh What a Lovely War offered a satirical historical lesson on the events that led up to, and inevitably formed the four year conflict – addressing the necessity to look back, to hopefully avoid what became one of the most catastrophic world events.