About
Red Ladder is acknowledged as one of Britain’s leading national touring companies producing new theatre that champions northern voices and compelling, underrepresented stories.
Red Ladder is funded by Arts Council England and by Leeds City Council.
Founded in 1968,
the company has a colourful history rooted in the radical socialist theatre movement in Britain known as agitprop. Born into an era of riots, demonstrations and revolts, Red Ladder has grown up, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century, where it continues to fight, to entertain, and to agitate in as equal measures as possible.
Our Vision
We make theatre about how we live now, and how we hope to live. The world has got to change, and the future is not yet written. The shared experience of theatre is about transformation and imagination, where we can collectively invent a better, kinder, fairer way to be.
