Details
When?
Wed 22 Oct 2025 -Thu 23 Oct 2025
7–8.15pm
Where?
Courtyard Theatre, Leeds PlayhousePlayhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UP
What?
Theatre, Performance, DancePrices
Pay What You Can £2–£35Recommended price £35
Plus booking fees
How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you?
Dan Daw, a Queer, crippled dance artist, is feeling the pressure to stay at the top of his game after the smash-hit world tour of his last show.
Audacious, vulnerable and tender, EXXY (Aussie slang for ‘that’s expensive mate’) is about imposter syndrome and fluctuating self-worth. Set against the backdrop of the Australian outback, EXXY takes us back to where Dan began – working class, with very little – to reflect on how far he has come.
Joined by three performers who walk and talk like him, Dan is comforted by the possibility of finally being able to blend in after a lifetime of standing out.
Your Experience
What to expect
This is a seated performance within a theatre venue. All performances are relaxed. The performance includes movement, text and sound.
Duration
75 mins
Latecomers
Please note that latecomers will not be admitted. We strongly advise you plan your travel in advance and arrive at the venue at least 15 minutes prior to the start time.
Travel notice
This performance coincides with Light Night Leeds, so the city centre will be busy and parking limited. Please allow extra time to reach the venue.
Age guidance
14+
Language
English
Content guidance
Contains loud noises, bright, intense and/or flashing lighting effects, flashing/moving images and video, sudden and rapid movement of objects around the stage and towards the audience, coins, long silences, total black outs, feeling/description of being othered, excessive and up close drool/spit, haze, reaching physical exhaustion and scenes that can be interpreted as the performers being in pain.
Getting here
Head to the Leeds Playhouse website for more information about getting to the venue.
Access information
Captions
Contains integrated English captions.
BSL interpreted
Wed 22 Oct
Audio described
Thu 23 Oct
To book a headset to access the Audio Description, please email Brad Welch [email protected] with ‘Audio Description booking’ in the subject and let us know what show you’d like to book a headset for.
This will then be available for you to collect at the venue.
Step free access
There is step free access to the event and there are accessible toilets at the venue.
Seating
The tiered seating is high-backed.
Touch tour
There will be a Touch Tour before the show starting at 6pm.
No need to book, just drop in.
Pre-Show Access
The Dan Daw Creative Projects (DDCP) team has developed Pre-Show Access as an added benefit for any audience members who come to EXXY who may need additional information to be comfortable in the space and enjoy the performance.
This includes, but is not limited to audience members who are visually impaired, neurodivergent, d/Deaf or audiences who identify as physically disabled.
Pre-Show Access is an informal, drop-in session before every performance.
There’s no need to book – just turn up to Leeds Playhouse between 6–6.45pm on Wed 22 and Thu 23 Oct.
(Please note some elements of pre-show access are only available for the first 30 minutes as detailed below)
The session is run by the DDCP team and includes:
- Explanations of trigger content in as much or little detail as you need
- Demonstration of the lighting design of the show at their brightest*
- Demonstration of the sound design of the show at its loudest*
- The option to choose and reserve a seat*
- Access to the stage and set*
- Priority entry to the theatre when the doors open
- Try out our environmental noise reduction equipment to see if it might help you during the show
- Try out our tactile equipment to see if it might help you during the show
- Tutorial on the use of our Audio Describing equipment, which comes with several options to tailor your experience of the show to your preference.
- Information on the set, props and costume
- Show credits
- *these elements are only available for the first 30 minutes of pre-show access until the performance space closes for the performers to warm up.
The information is available in written and digital forms for anyone who prefers not to have a conversation with DDCP staff.
If you have a question about pre-show access, you can contact us at [email protected] and Transform at [email protected].
Open door policy
Transform has an open door policy which means that, if for access reasons you need to exit the theatre at any point, you can return when you’re ready.
More information
Head to Transform’s Access page for more information.
If you have specific requirements or questions about access, please fill out our Access form or contact Brad Welch at [email protected] and let us know how we can help you.
