Interview - Rod Dixon: Theatre that still dares to be radical - Yorkshire Post

Over an hour-long interview the charismatic and engaging director talks about demonstrations he was involved in against power stations, why we need to be shaken out of our slumber and get angry at the banks and why our planet could be done for within eight years.

It is the last of these – global warming – that Dixon gets particularly passionate about; the company's latest production, Ugly, deals with the issue. In the Red Ladder offices, in the basement of the Yorkshire Dance building in Leeds's Cultural Quarter, a newspaper sits on a coffee table, the front page a picture of the floods in Pakistan.

"That's us in 20 years time," says Dixon. "If our atmosphere keeps warming in the way it is, we're talking about Hurricane Katrina, happening on a monthly basis. That might sound alarmist, but that's how dangerous it is."