Riding Lights operates from its own theatre building - Friargate Theatre - in the centre of York. Friargate Theatre includes offices, rehearsal rooms and a 100 seat studio theatre with a dynamic atmosphere and flexible seating for all kinds of shows.
 | | Augustus Carp, Friargate Theatre 2003 |
The company generates an average of six productions each year and tours nationwide at a number of levels, from highly successful co-productions with major regional theatres such as The Northcott and Theatr Clywd (Three Men in a Boat and The Fire Raisers), to small-scale regional tours of new writing and an annual community theatre programme (Roughshod) which plays to thousands of adults and young people across the country. The company also runs an Education Department working with local schools to produce GCSE Theatre Studies projects on a range of themes such as science, imaginative approaches to poverty, Guy Fawkes and terrorism. As well as this, Riding Lights runs two flourishing Youth Theatre companies with over a hundred members. They produce an annual programme of workshops on theatre skills as well as exciting productions of classics and world premieres such as Krindlekrax 2005. The theatre is also used to present productions by other companies, including local amateur theatre. The company is independent and apart from specific project funding from Charities, Local Authorities and the Arts Council, is supported by over 3,000 individuals nationwide. | 
