“Man overboard, man overboard! Call control. Blow the whistle.”
Love is a complicated business. It gets even more complicated when the person you love
doesn’t want to be alive. Tender, funny and defiantly hopeful, The Light House is a real
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life story
of falling in love and staying in love, even when the lights go out a
nd you’re lost in the dark. It’s
a love letter to life.
Join the emergency response as we dance in the kitchen, sing in the streets and try to turn the
lights back on. It gets lonely, muddling through these days and nights. So why don’t we do it
together?
★★★★★
“an absolute joy”
(The Arts Dispatch)
★★★★★
“A truly remarkable play that leaves you dizzy, a little breathless and smiling
your happy smile all the way home”
(I ThankYou Theatre)
★★★★★
“magnificently acted”
(A Youngish Perspective)
★★★★★
“crafted fr
om top to bottom with artistry”
(Theatre Weekly)
With puppetry, clowning and gently embedded audience participation, ‘The Light House’ is the
highly acclaimed debut play of Lecoq
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trained theatre artist Alys Williams, supported by an
exciting, female
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led cr
eative team. Following a celebrated national tour and London run at Park
Theatre in 2023
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4, The Light House returns to stages across the UK in 2026 “to bring hope to
nation that is crying out for it” (
★★★★★
Theatre & Tonic).
Originally from the north of E
ngland, Alys Williams is an actor, director and theatre maker based
in Glasgow & Leeds. She trained at the internationally renowned
É
cole internationale de th
é
â
tre
Jacques Lecoq in France and has worked across the UK and beyond with companies including
Leeds Playhouse, Manipulate Festival, Mull Theatre, Al Seed Productions, Mind The Gap, Red
Ladder, Slung Low, Cecil Green Arts, Cygnet Theatre (Paris), OYO (Namibia) and Corrymeela
Arts (N. Ireland).
The Light House was created with the support of Arts Cou
ncil England, Leeds Playhouse & Red
Ladder, in partnership with local carer groups. This tour has been made possible through
support from the Traverse Theatre, the Touring Network and NRTF (National Rural Touring
Forum).