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Performance

VenueLeeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse)
Other spaces: Courtyard, Quarry, Bramall Rock Void
TownLeeds
CountyWest Yorkshire
From10th October 2024
To12th October 2024
What is currently on at Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse) (V977)

Danesha

DaneshaT795561353
"Sometimes I pretend I'm in a music video. And that I have a backing group. And they're always black, even though I don't have any black friends, in real life." After successfully managing to convince her Preston mates (as well as telling a teeny, tiny white lie to her dad) Danesha arranges a night out in Manchester. She finds the sickest club with the sickest music, and the sickest vibe. It's proper, proper mint. Then she meets Her and Danesha's whole existence becomes one big question mark. Because Danesha thought it was normal to feel like you don't quite fit in, to like music that nobody else likes, to move your body in a way your friends can't, and to not know anything about your mum and the island she comes from...
Author Stefanie Reynolds


Archive :: production:T795561353, play:S0821215064, venue:V977
Current production:Tour/Production

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Company

Company Box of Tricks
Director Hannah Tyrell-Pinder
Design Sascha Gilmour
Design Marina Diamantidi
Sound Sophia Harari
Lighting Charly Dunford
Director Aiden Crawford (Movement Director)
Producer Arber Binjaku
Performer Talia Rae Smith (Danesha)
Performer Liam Grunshaw (Dad)
Performer Kelise Gordon-Harrison (Leonie)
Performer Jennifer Marvaree-Robinson (Lianne)
Performer Stefan Gumbs (Marcus)
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