2021 has been a year like no other for Lawrence Batley Theatre. We started the year in a challenging world, but the company pulled together and created diverse ways of engaging with audiences, both loyal and new. It was a year where we learnt to adapt and flourish.
We became a radical new digital producing company, creating online theatre productions that were seen across the world. We curated an outdoor season of entertainment featuring local bands and touring theatre, which culminated in an incredible dance production featuring large scale projection that mapped on to the front of the building, making us the loudest and proudest we’ve ever been. Then as things got colder and safer again, we moved back inside trialling socially distanced shows at first, then taking our shows out into the community all the while modernising and learning to engage our audiences in different ways.
A huge thank you goes to our funders, who we couldn’t have done this without. Have a read and find out how it all went.
