We’re incredibly excited to announce that the Garfield Weston Foundation have confirmed a £150k grant towards the making of the Creation Space!

There’s one final stop on our post-lockdown return to theatre tour of The Wedding. We’re delighted to announce that we will be performing at the Storyhouse in Chester on 16-19 Feb 2022!

A number of changes in our performing ensemble has created the opportunity for us to invite up to three new performers to join our company as a performer in The Wedding, a devising performer on our new show, or both.

Commissioned by The Space, this new version of our associate show and co-production with Mind the Gap promises a whole new experience to the stage version which toured theatre venues in 2019/2020.

We have just launched a month-long Crowdfund campaign with a target of £25,000 to help transform an unloved warehouse into a nationally significant, unique resource for the creation of world-class performance and the delivery of cutting-edge training and participation.

We're delighted to release our new short, exploring how Amit and the performers bring their own experiences of migration and racism to the creation of our new show.

We are delighted to announce our new show, commissioned by the National Theatre, which will see the piece being performed at the venue in 2023. The show explores the themes of family, home, migration and racism and is currently being developed in our hometown of Ipswich.

Gecko is delighted to announce a grant of £161,650 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, allowing us to continue development of our new show.

While the roles of Martin, Daniel, Karl and Louis are played by the same four devising performers that first toured with the show in 2013, there are a few fresh faces in the film. We asked the film and stage production’s writer and director, Amit, about his decision to include these characters.

In collaboration with Illuminations, The Space and BBC Arts we are incredibly excited to announce our debut feature film Institute, an intimate, funny and moving exploration of what it means to care.

A Statement from Amit Lahav, Artistic Director at Gecko

Yesterday Amit hosted a live Q&A on Facebook for members of our Engage group to ask all of their burning questions. Here are some of the big questions he was asked, and what he had to say.

A huge part of the work we do here at Gecko is within education, outreach, and artist development so when James Sutherland, Artistic Director of CITA Tokyo who met Gecko’s Artistic Director Amit Lahav while teaching students at East15 UK, invited Gecko to collaborate on a creative exchange residency, we very enthusiastically accepted.

Guest Post by Karen Bartholomew - Associate Artist: Dance and Engagement at Mind the Gap, and A Little Space Co-Creator

We are delighted to announce that we have received a grant of £499,999 from Arts Council England to help fund the building and development of the Gecko Creation Space on Ipswich’s Waterfront.

Amongst many other exciting things, Gecko are currently in the process of developing a new show. The show is at an early stage that Amit refers to as the ‘Thinking Year’.

An article about Institute by William Chan, a performing arts critic and media producer, which was included in the brochure and the online Critics’ Guide.

We're planning a game-changing new building on Ipswich's iconic waterfront.