EXXY (TRANSFORM 25)

22 – 23 Oct 2025

Tickets
Pay What You Can
Venue
Courtyard
Running time
75 mins
Age guidance
14+
Content Advisories

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Content Advisories

Contains sudden loud noises and music. Flashing lights and blackouts are used.

This show is still in development and further content guidance may be added ahead of the performance.

How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you?

Dan Daw, a Queer, crippled dance artist, is feeling the pressure to stay at the top of his game after the smash-hit world tour of his last show, The Dan Daw Show.

Audacious, vulnerable and tender, Exxy (Aussie slang for “that’s expensive mate”) is about imposter syndrome and fluctuating self-worth. Set against the backdrop of the Australian outback, Exxy takes us back to where Dan began – working class, with very little – to reflect on how far he has come.

Joined by three performers who walk and talk like him, Dan is comforted by the possibility of finally being able to blend in after a lifetime of standing out.

Part of Transform 25 international performance festival: transformfestival.org

Production images

Tiiu Mortley, Joe Brown, Sofía Valdiri and Dan Daw in EXXY (c) Hugo Glendinning

Tiiu Mortley, Dan Daw, Sofía Valdiri, in EXXY (c) Hugo Glendinning

Tiiu Mortley and Sofía Valdiri in EXXY (c) Hugo Glendinning

Sofía Valdiri, Joe Brown, Tiiu Mortley and Dan Daw in EXXY (c) Hugo Glendinning

Joe Brown, Dan Daw, Tiiu Mortley & Sofia Valdiri in EXXY (c) Hugo Glendinning

Video

EXXY - Behind the Show

Access Information

The Dan Daw Creative Projects (DDCP) team has developed Pre-Show Access as an added benefit for any audience members who come to EXXY who may need additional information to be comfortable in the space and enjoy the performance.

This includes, but is not limited to audience members who are visually impaired, neurodivergent, d/Deaf or audiences who identify as physically disabled.

Pre-Show Access is an informal, drop-in session before every performance.

There is no need to book – just turn up to Leeds Playhouse between 6–6.45pm on Wed 22 and Thu 23 Oct.

Please note some elements of pre-show access are only available for the first 30 minutes as detailed below.

The session is run by the DDCP team and includes:

Explanations of trigger content in as much or little detail as you need
Demonstration of the lighting design of the show at their brightest*
Demonstration of the sound design of the show at its loudest*
The option to choose and reserve a seat*
Access to the stage and set*
Priority entry to the theatre when the doors open
Try out our environmental noise reduction equipment to see if it might help you during the show
Try out our tactile equipment to see if it might help you during the show
Tutorial on the use of our Audio Describing equipment, which comes with several options to tailor your experience of the show to your preference.
Information on the set, props and costume
Show credits

*these elements are only available for the first 30 minutes of pre-show access until the performance space closes for the performers to warm up.

The information is available in written and digital forms for anyone who prefers not to have a conversation with DDCP staff.

If you have a question about pre-show access, you can contact us at hello@dandawcreative.com and Transform at info@transformfestival.org.

To book a headset to access the Audio Description, please email Brad brad@transformfestival.org with ‘Audio Description booking’ in the subject and let us know what show you’d like to book a headset for. This will then be available for you to collect at the venue.

There will be a Touch Tour before the show starting at 6pm. No need to book, just drop in.

For EXXY you can book a ticket with a wheelchair space online.