Riding Lights Theatre Company

York-based Riding Lights is one of the UK's longest-lived independent theatre companies. Internationally renowned for 27 years' of touring productions, Riding Lights opened its own home, Friargate Theatre, to the public in 2000.

The company's productions have ranged from its own blockbuster adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (a collaboration with The Northcott, Exeter, which played to 90% houses at Theatr Clywd), to Walkout! (a modern dramatisation of Pilgrim's Progress), The Winter's Tale (at the Bridewell Theatre, London, and on national tour), Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers (a collaboration with The Northcott, Exeter, and a sell-out success in a second production at the Bridewell), and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist at Friargate Theatre, York.