About Us
Eclipse is one of the UK’s most innovative, Black-led touring theatre and production companies, inspiring new narratives about the Black and Global Majority experience. In partnership with venues and collaborators, we commission, develop, produce and present new work by Black and Global Majority creatives, whose voices are all too infrequently represented on the main stages across our country.
Rooted in the North of England, we are a Leeds based organisation with a national profile, touring our work across the country. We are proud to have proved that there is an audience for Black and Global Majority theatre outside of London.
We believe in the power of culture to connect people and to change lives.
We continue to reflect England’s diversity by championing and producing Black and Global Majority stories.
We prioritise the voices of those who were born, live or work in the North or who have a strong connection with the region.
"Richly textured, passionate and
enormously affecting. Beautiful.”
The Times on Princess & The Hustler
Princess & The Hustler, 2019
Photo by The Other Richard
"Nightclubbing is a show of grit and glitter: an
uncompromising original tornado.”
The Stage on Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing, 2019
Photo by Marcus Hessenberg
Eclipse Award Recipent
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The Eclipse Awards
Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall announce the recipients of the third annual Eclipse Award – Faizal Abdullah, Subira Joy, Lula Mebrahtu, Mwansa Phiri, Blink Dance Theatre and Journey to the East. In an amplified return of the Eclipse Award, the six new productions, which have been supported by Eclipse Theatre, will be presented at Summerhall during this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
For the first time the Eclipse Award will be going to multiple Black and Global Majority artists or companies, providing the recipients with a nurturing artistic community whilst performing in Edinburgh, opportunities to network, and over £50,000 worth of support. The productions from this year’s winners are the live art protest piece Kill The Cop Inside Your Head by spoken word and performance artist Subira Joy; OommoO by vocal artist Lula Mebrahtu; Faizal Abdullah’s love letter to Singapore, Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?); Mwansa Phiri’s spoken-word theatre with Zambian oral traditions, waiting for a train at the bus stop; Elvis Died of Burgers from Blink Dance Theatre; and performance installation Weathervanes by Journey to East Productions, in association with Summerhall and Tramway.
The Eclipse Award, an initiative by Eclipse Theatre and Summerhall aims to help UK Black artists and fellow artists who are also marginalised for their race, and who make boundary-pushing performance work, to undertake an Edinburgh Fringe run. Our previous recipients are Rachael Young in 2019 and Initiative.dkf in 2020/21.
“That rare thing: a truly original piece
of theatre, innovative in both form &
content”
The Guardian on The Gift
The Gift, 2020
Photo by Ellie Kurttz
OUT, 2019
Photo by Marcus Hessenberg
Slate, 2017 - 2019
Photo by Ashley Karrell
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