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Looking back to our November 2024 production ... 
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​​Kenneth Grahame's
The Wind in the Willows
adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny, ​directed by Dan Dainter
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​​Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD
Wednesday 6th - Saturday 9th November 2024
Mike Kenny’s cheerful adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story sets our stage in the ruins of Toad Hall on the day it is to be sold.  Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad reminisce about tales of years gone by and bring the events of this much loved story to life.​ 
Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole leaves Mole End and ventures out to the riverbank, where he befriends the resourceful Ratty, the gruff Badger and the infamous Toad of Toad Hall.  Together they explore the Wide World, and the Wild Wood, but can they keep Toad out of trouble? 

This amateur production of The Wind in the Willows (Grahame/Kenny) is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Theatre programme (pdf)
Looking back to our March 2024 production ...  ... 

The Boy Who Fell Into A Book,  by Alan Ayckbourn

"Ayckbourn’s wonderfully inventive play for children brings alive several well-known children’s books as Kevin and Rockfist Slim escape the baddies and plunge into many different worlds."
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Thursday 21st - Saturday 23rd March 2024
​The Studio, Carriageworks Theatre,
​Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD
Kevin is a keen reader and particularly enjoys the adventures of fictional American detective ROCKFIST SLIM. One night, when his father makes him turn the light off Kevin somehow slips inside the story of the Rockfist Slim novel he is reading and meets his hero for the first time.
Tickets are £12  (Price include 10% booking fee) 
Age advisory: 7+ 
Box Office: 0113 376 0318
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Theatre programme pages
Looking back to our November 2023 production ... Charlotte's Web
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Theatre programme pages
more about our production of Charlotte's Web
Looking back to our March 2023 production ... A Monster Calls
More about A Monster Calls, incl some photos ...

The venues:  Carriageworks Theatre (& The Studio on Level 4)

Carriageworks Theatre
The Electric Press
3 Millennium Square
Leeds
​LS2 3AD
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Celebrating 90 years of Leeds Children's Theatre (1935-2025)
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"The aim of Leeds Children's Theatre is to produce plays suitable for children,
​the players to be either children or adults or both, as is necessary for the production"
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This was drawn into the constitution in April 1937
​and it remains the aim of Leeds Children's Theatre today 
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