LIFT’01 looked back at a twenty-year history for a one-of-a-kind festival, presenting 50+ companies from Palestine, the UK, Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Uganda, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Portugal, France, India, and the USA.
Following the festival LIFT embarked on a five-year venture: the LIFT enquiry (2001-6), a year-round staging of a playful and practical exploration of theatre that would allow LIFT to grow beyond the biennial format in response to the contemporary social and political context.
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Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
Le Costume (The Suit) at Young Vic
France
Colin Prescod (programme curator), Mannafest, para active, JazzXchange
Critically Black at Riverside Studios
UK, USA
Bobby Baker
Box Story(an Artsadmin project in association with Warwick Arts Centre) at St. Luke's Church, Holloway
UK
ai-Kasaba Theatre
Alive from Palestine at Royal Court Theatre
Palestine
Rustom Bharucha
Between Past and Future, Re-Imagining 'Our Times' in Theatre Today(LIFT Lectures) at Riverside Studios
India
Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Russian ensemble
Boris Godunov at Riverside Studios
Russia, UK
Hannah Hurtzig
Information Retrieval at King's Library, British Museum
Germany, UK, USA
John Fox
Steps in Rehearsing Utopia (LIFT Lectures) at Bargehouse, South Bank
UK
Nigel Jamieson, Paul Grabowsky, I Made Sidia, I Wayan Gde Yudane, Peter Wilson, Julian Crouch
The Theft of Sita (produced by Performing Lines) (LIFT in Conversation) at Riverside Studios
Indonesia, Australia, UK
The Theft of Sita (produced by Performing Lines)(LIFT in Conversation)
The Theft of Sita: Tradition Into Modernity (LIFT in Conversation) at Riverside Studios
Indonesia, Australia, UK
The Wooster Group
To You, The Bridie! (Phèdre) at Riverside Studios
USA
Alan Read
20/20 Vision, Seeing Through Theatre(LIFT Lectures) at Sadler's Wells Theatre
UK
Declan Donnellan, George Ibrahim, Peggy Phelan and Adrian Heathfield, Romeo and Chiara Castellucci, and others
Into the Woods: A conference on the experience of theatre for children
Madalena Victorino, Agnès Desfosses and Shaftesbury Park Primary Schools
Stones in My Boots (Residency) at BAC
Portugal, France
Heiner Goebbels, Sound City Ensemble
No Arrival, No Parking, Navigation Part III (in association with Almeida Opera) at Almeida at King's Cross
Germany, UK
Hittite Empire, Chakra Zulu
Skeletons of Fish at Riverside Studios
USA, UK
László Hudi – Mozgó Ház Társulás
Tragedy of Man at Riverside Studios
Hungary
Reich and Szyber
The Night Manager at Sightseeing Boat on the Thames
Sweden
Royal Court Theatre
New Plays From Uganda Scences from work by Charles Mulekwa, Isaac Muwawu, Phillip Luswata at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
Uganda, UK
Zuidelijk Toneel Hollandia
Voices at Riverside Studios
Netherlands
Maurice O’Connell
House of Miracles (Festival Club) at HMS President
Ireland
Laia Gasch (curator), Duckie, Halloween Society, OMSK, People Show, Shunt, and others
Club programme (The Festival Club) at HMS President
Declan Warner, Phelim McDermot, Rachel Clare, Romeo and Chiara Castellucci, Sita Brahmachari, and others
Into the Woods: A conference on the experience of theatre for children (Conference) at BAC
