A three-day celebration of new ideas, readings and works in progress from SEEDS Companies Gift Horse Theatre and Arínọlá Theatre, as well as Rough Ideas: Open Call Writers CN Smith and Ruth McCloskey.

Gift Horse presents a selection of current and upcoming works-in-progress alongside their ecological manifesto.

Leonora is a new play inspired by the life and works of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Leonora takes not just Carrington but the research process as its subject: why do we turn to figures from the past to shape our present? Could Carrington’s radical ecofeminist vision lead us to new futures? Romeo and Juliet is a preview of a new version of Shakespeare’s play, exploring love and youth in a time of changing romantic and sexual norms. What constitutes love, and who gets to define it? Gift Horse’s ecological manifesto sets out their evolving relationship with the term “environmentally conscious theatre,” and offers new ways to approach making theatre in a time of climate crisis.

Videos available on request.