RUNNER

25 Oct 2025

  • Tickets
    Pay What You Can
  • Venue
    Carriageworks Theatre
  • Running time
    65 mins
  • Age guidance
    12+
  • Content Advisories

Ira Brand (Netherlands)

Taking place simultaneously in the theatre and on the streets of Leeds, RUNNER is a performance about running and exhaustion. Why do we value people when they push themselves to their limits?

Setting a pace, covering distance, breaking a sweat – a woman is running away from the theatre. You’re invited to witness this unfamiliar body making its way through the city. Is she seeking something, or is she making an escape?

RUNNER explores the interwoven and contradictory joys, miseries and potentials of all types of exhaustion.

Part of Transform 25 international performance festival: transformfestival.org

 

Performances at Transform 25 co-presented by Transform and Carriageworks  Theatre and supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the UK.

Coproduced by Frascati Producties, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, CAMPO and Battersea Arts Centre. Supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Ammodo.

Book tickets

Sat 25 Oct

Important Information

This is a seated performance within a theatre venue. Includes audio and sound.

Head to the Carriageworks Theatre website for more information about getting to the venue.

Access

Accessible tickets can be bought online at Leeds Ticket Hub or over the phone on 0113 376 0318. Wheelchair spaces can only be booked over the phone.

There is step free access to the event and there are accessible toilets at the venue.

The tiered seating is high-backed.

A rest space is available.

We have an open door policy across all shows at Transform, meaning ticket holders are welcome to come and go as they need.

Head to Transform’s Access page for more information.

  • MAJOR FUNDERS

    Arts Council
  • Leeds City Council
  • LTB Foundation
  • Founded by UK government
  • Suppoprted by west Yorkshire
  • Principal Partner

    Caddick Group
  • Principal Access Partner

    Irwin Mitchell