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LIFT 2023

An off festival year but with three pop-up shows.
The Second Woman is finally staged after being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic,
The Making of Pinocchio returns to BAC,
and the UK premiere of Cuckoo by Jaha Koo comes to London.
"So popular was The Second Woman, that people queued for hours round the block to get in." ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Financial Times "Remarkable expose of the art of acting" ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - The Stage on The Second Woman "A tour de force" ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Mail on Sunday on The Second Woman   The Second Woman, housed at The Young Vic theatre, was a cultural moment which will not soon be forgotten. Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience as actress Ruth Wilson took to the stage and repeated the same scene, 100 times, with 100 different scene partners over 24 hours. The Second Woman received 5-star reviews from The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Stage, as well as being named the best theatre show of 2023 by The Guardian. There is a behind-the-scenes documentary coming from Fremantle Media in 2025. Cuckoo was the opening event for LIFT's new two-year programme LIFT the City. Designed to support the post pandemic recovery of London’s Square Mile, and in partnership with City of London Corporation, over the next few years LIFT will bring performances, interventions, talks, outdoor events, workplace wellbeing and LIFT festival 2024 to thousands of workers, residents and visitors in the City of London from September.  The Making of Pinocchio returned to Battersea Arts Centre after completing a successful world tour. Artists Cade and MacAskill returned to London with their latest version of this heartwarming show, first premiered in LIFT 22. Bat Brunch Lab was in a research and development stage with the co-designers of the project, artists Kuang-Yi Ku (Taipei/Eindhoven) and Robert Johnson (London). This later went on to be called Bat Banquet, and finally Bat Night Market in LIFT 2024, staged at Science Gallery London. This early workshop tested out some of the food concepts ahead of the piece, and featured lectures by Professor Lucy Di Silvio, journalist and writer Angela Hui and Dr Gemma Bowsher.

The Second Woman

The Second Woman, images by Helen Murray

Cuckoo

Cuckoo, image provided by CAMPO

The Making of Pinocchio

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The Second Woman

19 - 20 May 2023 (this event has now passed)

Golden Globe and Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson stars in the internationally acclaimed epic The Second Woman. One woman, one scene, one hundred men, one electrifying 24-hour performance.

쿠쿠 | Cuckoo

14 – 16 Sep

Three talkative rice cookers take you on a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history.

The Making of Pinocchio 2023

1 – 10 Nov

The Making of Pinocchio is back! A true tale of love and transition told through the story of Pinocchio. Set in a fictional film studio, you are invited to go behind the scenes of Cade & MacAskill’s creative process and their relationship, and question what it takes to tell your truth. Artists and lovers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill have been creating The Making of Pinocchio since 2018, alongside and in response to Ivor’s gender transition. In this ‘funny, clever and thoughtful two-hander, rich in playful imagery’ (The Guardian) their tender and complex autobiographical experience meets the magical story of the lying puppet who wants to be a ‘real boy’.

Bat Brunch Lab

25 Mar

How do you feel about eating bat? Join artists Kuang-Yi Ku (Taipei/Eindhoven) and Robert Johnson (London) in the year 2050 for mini-lectures and interactive workshops as part of their project research and development.

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