Leikun Loppu

Founded in 1996 By Elizabeth Besbrode and Jason Hird, Leikin Loppu Theatre Company produce original work, workshops and residencies, in pursuit of their unique form of physical, wordless, tragi-comic theatre.

Leikin Loppu Always Aim To :

• CREATE original, charming, personal, hilarious, detailed, daring, fantastical and touching work...

• COLABORATE and conspire in the creation of theatre by any means necessary - wherever, whenever, however...

• ENGAGE with people and provoke curiosity and play
in the world...

• MAKE theatre that grows from obsessive characters journeying to fulfill their desires in situations where elements of the world are magnified and then exposed through tragedy and comedy…

• TOUR nationally alongside site specific, educational and unusual theatrical projects...

• DIRECT design, create, write, perform, calculate, connect...

• IDEAS expectation-breaking, anarchic, unusual and eclectic, surreal, wacky, bizarre, quirky, weird and twisted…

Leikin Loppu Are :

• FULL of detail, humour, bizarre physical expression, boldness and poetry…

• DARING improvisational, inventive and exciting…

• PASSIONATE with the I.C.D = The Institute of Crazy Dancing - Expressive movement for the uninhibited Un-inhibiting processes to encourage direct undiluted physical expression.(look out for some insane moves and physical anarchy in a bar / club near you…)

• EXPLORERS of life, love, fear, pain, and laughter…

• INTERESTED in devising, performing, comedy, tragedy, creativity and life…

• INFLUENCED by the weirdness of the world, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Cartoons, Orchestral music and Crazy tunes...

• IN AND OUT site-specific, creating situations out of situations with flair and passion…

Leikin Loppu Are Accordingley Named :

1. LAKIN
( Yorkshire speak ) = Larking = playing out

2. LOPPY HEAD / LOPPY SOFA / THE LOP-NURSE
( Yorkshire speak ) = Nits or fleas

3. LAYKIN LOPPU
( Yorkshire speak ) = Playful fleas

4. LEIKIN
( Finnish ) = To play

5. LOPPU
( Finnish ) = To end / To stop