NEW IMAGES – Brainstorm cast in rehearsals
Fri 27 Jun, 2025
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Playhouse production
Brainstorm
10 – 12 Jul 2025
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Tickets£15
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VenueBarber Studio
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Running time70 mins
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Age guidance11+
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The teenage brain has 86 billion neurons connecting and colliding to produce a stage of life that is chaotic, exhilarating and, at times, frustrating.
Brainstorm is a theatrical tornado exploring how adolescent brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are and how they affect their relationships with the grown-ups in their lives.
Co-created and performed by Leeds Playhouse Youth Theatre members, and directed by Eleanor Manners (Associate Director on Oliver! 2024), this mind-boggling show is devised from an original collaboration between Company Three and neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr Kate Mills.
Designed to be performed by teenagers, Brainstorm draws on personal experiences. The end result is a tumultuous exploration of what it means to be a teenager, today. It will leave your neurons fizzing.
Creative Audio Description and Captioning will be available at all performances. By arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
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On stage
In rehearsals
Cast
Dana Appleby-Nguyen
Enaya James
Izzah Khojah
Elliot Malone
Andre Masitara
Xanthe Maskew
Emilia Scofield
Fenn Telfer
Creatives
Ned Glasier
Co-creator
Emily Lim
Co-creator
Eleanor Manners
Director
Esther Irving
Associate Director
Ava Bounds
Writer in the Room
Kate Marshall
Set & Costume Designer
Callum Macdonald
Lighting Designer
Laura Marsden
Creative Co-Ordinator
Owen Atkinson
Creative Co-Ordinator
Keisha Hamilton
Movement Director
Ella Barr Franco
Studio Theatre Technician
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