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    Address:Lancaster UniversityLancaster
    Postcode:LA1 4YW
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    Welcome to the Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster University

    The Nuffield Theatre is a space where artists, audiences and young people can see, make and discuss stunning live performance. Our mission is to present and help create the very best in challenging contemporary theatre, dance, live art and performance.


    We’re known for our groundbreaking work in developing young artists, as well as regularly commissioning major new works from established companies. We also provide many exciting opportunities for you to get involved with the creative process of talented, cutting-edge artists.


    "The Nuffield Theatre is one of the most important venues in the UK for contemporary performance, with a programme that is always a fantastic mix of new discoveries and established innovators" -Tim Etchells, Forced Entertainment


    The Nuffield invites you to take a risk and see something new – visit our website www.nuffieldtheatre.com or join us on Facebook and enjoy an amazing mix of thrilling and thought-provoking performance for free!


    The following shows all have an allocation of free tickets for young people:

    see WHATS ON for more details


    Nic Green – Trilogy 8pm, Saturday 30 January 2010 Green and her company examine and interrogate the joys and complexities of being a young woman today with relentless, raw energy in this thrilling new art-work which includes a large-scale, naked ensemble choreography featuring up to 50 local women.



    FEBRUARY


    Random People – Versions 1-5

    8pm, Tuesday 2 February 2010 Responding to a set of 101 descriptions of actions, four performers create a short solo, each using the descriptions as text or as literal instructions. The performance culminates in a unique group interpretation.



    Vincent Dance Theatre – If We Go On

    8pm, Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 February 2010 This exceptional ensemble of multi-tasking performers and musicians turn words into movement, shunt gesture into sound and at times burst into song to create a performance that asks: If you had one last dance in you, what shape would it take?



    Conversations with the Collection (opening event followed by Proto-type Theater performance at 8pm) 6pm, Tuesday 16 February 2010 (exhibition runs until Friday 19 March) The Peter Scott Gallery is the permanent home of many wonderful collections of artworks and antiquities. We are working with a number of artists to develop the idea of artistic conversations, pairing selected works with pieces from elsewhere across styles, continents and centuries.



    Proto-type Theater – Third Person (Redux)

    8pm, Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 February 2010 By turns hilarious, moving and disturbing, THIRD PERSON (Redux), from Lancaster and New York based Proto-type, is a lecture-demonstration-cum-performance that investigates the events that unfolded out of the electric meeting of two of history’s most infamous lovers.



    Cupola Bobber – Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me

    8pm, Monday 22 & Tuesday 23 February 2010 Using a multi-layered square tarp artfully manipulated to locate the performance in the sea, on the land, in the sky, and in the theatre, duo Cupola Bobber create an insightful and rewarding pastiche full of imaginative wit.



    MARCH



    Julian Fox – You’ve got to love dancing to stick to it

    8pm, Tuesday 2 March 2010 Fluttering somewhere between theatre, comedy and performance art, Radio 4 star Julian Fox transforms the stage into an urban beach as he fondly relives a summer spent at Brockwell Lido.



    Lemn Sissay – Why I don’t hate white people

    8pm, Thursday 4 March 2010 With his trademark sharp humour, Lemn investigates why it is that he doesn’t hate white people, in a whirlwind tour of race seen through the unique and intensely personal perspective of one man’s life.

    Unfortunately no A Night Less Ordinary tickets are currently available online. You can contact this venue directly or check back here later to see if tickets become available.