Do you remember how, as a child in the seventies, your family would visit Black River Falls every year, lured off the motorway by that giant orange cast-iron moose?

And how your sister moved there and married the same Albanian man three times?

Bob Karper does. He remembers it like it was yesterday. And he’s made a play we’d love you to see.

Sarah Johns Music Party also wants to take us on a journey. But this time it’s to the very centre of our own imaginations.
Luckily, we’ll be in the safe hands of our guide: the man, the legend that is BRUCE.

In a image-obsessed world, are we ready to stop taking life at face value? In this part-performance, part-meditation, we follow BRUCE as he illuminates the path to an internal world of the senses.

These shows are only on until Saturday, so leave the unseasonable weather outside and let The Yard lighten your spirit!

Black River Falls and BRUCE
Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 May from 7:30pm

Remember, you can see both shows for just £10!

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And what’s more, there has been a pretty dramatic twist in the tale… were only on the BBC NEWS!! (That’s BBC as in British Broadcasting Corporation, not Beresford Badminton Club!)

If you saw it, you’ll know how vital it is for us to be able to stay open and functioning throughout the winter… this is a massive deal for us, and a huge challenge.

We need to buy a lot of wool to insulate our building. Will you join us in our quest? Help us reach the summit of our woolly Everest?

A few quid will make a massive difference to our cause… Thank you!

Find out more and make a pledge.

After a whirlwind week of packed Generation Game performances and late nights dancing in the bar, we thought we’d leave it to the people who’ve been visiting and tweeting about us this week to tell you about week 1.

Reviews in under 140 characters.

What we’re interested in is consistency…

Which brings me on to week Two of The Generation Game

These guys are doing very big things in our little theatre.
Talking to us about empathy, memory, and our connections with the people around us, the shows are looking a little bit like this…

Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May – 7:30 pm

Touching Distance by Switchback combines original material from The Great Diary Project with stories, dance, images and music to create a vivid collage of emotional worlds exploring the extent to which we can ever, truly, empathise with others. We see emotions in others every day. We recognise them. But do we feel them?

Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 May – 9 pm

The Unhidden Collective (The Fish Tales of Alaska) return to The Yard with a visually stunning and profoundly moving new show, Finding Frank. Using testimonies of people living with mental health issues, this compelling performance tells the story of an elderly man, a young music facilitator, and the relationship they make through music.

Remember, you can see both shows for just £10!

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” In this space where rules don’t exist, new things will start to happen.”

Read the full blog entry here.

WATCH US IN ACTION

Look out for us over the next few weeks!

The Generation Game is at The Yard 30th April- 06 July 2013.

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Celebrating curries and spicy snacks from around the world, their dishes combine delicious fresh ingredients and surprising flavour combinations.

Favourite dishes from last year included spicy coconut and aubergine curry, mixed vegetable and cream cheese pakoras, and a scrumptious meaty tasting platter for two.

Stay tuned for the full menu…

Those of you who came to The Yard during the frostiest winter months might have noticed the strategic placing of blankets, hot water bottles and electric heaters.
Contrary to popular belief, this was not a quirky design choice…!

Please help us spread the word, tell your friends, and donate a little (or a lot) of money if you can.

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Ten weeks of performance under one tin roof.

Earlier this year we threw our net wide, asking everyone, anyone to send us ideas responding to the theme ‘The Generation Game’.

These shows are a little bigger, a little braver, a little bit more wonderful than you’ll find elsewhere.
Each show, in its own inimitable way, is about who we are today, where we’ve been and where we might be going.

And, like every show at The Yard, they are demonstrative of what theatre might look like in the future. Just like other artists that first started working at The Yard, we are confident that some of those who form part of The Generation Game will be on bigger stages, in front of fatter cameras and receiving valuable awards sometime soon.

So, you’d best see them now, before it’s too late…

There’s a drama queen in all of us, so to kick off the year we’re dusting off our tops hats, slipping into those heels and applying our make-up. We’re shining the spotlight on the people who love (and hate) to be in it, looking at how actors ‘playing’ other actors, or even themselves, in films can often be a means of self-critique, self-love and self-loathing. From the tragic to the downright hilarious, we’ll look at both the role of actor as ‘performer’, and the uncertain place they are left once a career or stardom has failed, faded or blossomed.

First up (Thursday 21st) we have Living in Oblivion, starring Steve Buscemi – the ultimate love letter to the perils of low-budget filmmaking. Friday night fun comes in the form of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, followed by a suitably glittery party in the The Yard Bar. Then, on Sunday, when you’ve boogied so much you can boogie no more, curl up with a hot water bottle and a cold Bloody Mary and enjoy Pedro Almodovar’s masterpiece All About My Mother.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll boogie, you’ll eat pick’n'mix.

The Yard is Back. Weekends just got good again.

And you’re invited!

TONIGHT (Saturday 24th November) // 9pm- 3am // Free entry.

This is your last chance to catch Fish Tales in the theatre, Ravi’s Indian Bistro in the Yard Kitchen,
and the legendary DJ Hehtz & 5 Pockets in the bar, playing disco and electric trash into the early hours.

There will be dancing. There will be drinking. There will be good times.

See you at the bar!