Client: Slung Low
Date: 2016
Writer: John Hunter
Director: Sally Proctor
Music: Heather Fenoughty
“Signs were spotted popping up all over Holbeck; tales of Holbeck’s glorious past and magical present.
“They were part of a project Slung Low created with members of our writer’s group. Our free writer training scheme that has been running, free, for the last 18 months with Casualty writer Mark Catley and Freedom Studio’s Artistic Director Aisha Khan.
“Holbeck is a brilliant place and we are very proud of being based here. A lot of our work means we have to spend time away (our last two shows in 2016 took us to Switzerland and the RSC in Stratford Upon Avon, we’re often on the road) but where ever we go we talk proudly of our place here in Holbeck. And we want to make more work here, this sign project was part of that ambition. 72 stories, written by residents of Holbeck and wider Leeds, placed on lamp-posts. Inspired by the brilliant, complicated present and past of Holbeck. Audiences were invited to read this magic-real version of the town only if they walked through and within it.