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23 - 25 Oct 2025

Bring It Back

Natalie Davies

An immersive theatre experience exploring Bradford's musical heritage.

Tickets

via Bradford Arts Centre
Event Details
Date 23 - 25 Oct 2025
Times 7.30pm
Location Bradford Arts Centre
Access
  • Captioned
  • BSL interpreted
  • Audio described
  • Embedded audio description

Remember when Bradford buzzed? Bassline, bhangra, and dancefloors full ‘til 6am. Nadia, a thirty-something washed-up DJ, wants that energy back — and she’s not asking nicely.

A Bradford 2025 Artist-Led Award project.

Part love letter, part comeback mission, Bring It Back is a high-energy theatre experience with heart, humour, and heavy beats. Your night out starts here.

We all pine for the past when things get tough, and in our 30s the desperation for nostalgia really kicks in. An immersive show following Nadia Uddin’s love/hate relationship with her hometown of Bradford and her battle between striving for success or contentment.
Mixing film, live stream video and a DJ live on the decks, Bring It Back will feed the souls of Bradfordians who long for the booming nightlife they once had. Topping the night off with a post-show DJ set, audiences will be bouncing from start to finish! Topping the night off with a post-show DJ set, audiences will be bouncing from start to finish!

Tickets available via the Bradford Arts Centre website for the following dates:

Post-show DJ Set Events Info
(Immediately following each evening performance on site at Bradford Arts Centre)
  • Thursday 23 October – Dipak Mistry
  • Friday 24 October – Dean Loynes aka Phat Fingerz
  • Saturday 25 October (evening show) – Aimee Barber

About the artist

Natalie Davies is an award-winning actress from Bradford. Her TV credits include playing Ashley in Hullraisers (Ch4) and Tabani in The Full Monty Series (Disney), and theatre credits include Jabala and the Jinn Lyric Hammersmith, Northern School Bradford Playhouse, Pick N Mix Leeds Playhouse. Her biographical show Full English won Best Stage Production at the Asian Media Awards in 2021 & she played Parveen in the award winning feature film Eaten By Lions (2018).

Artist-Led Project Awards

This project is supported by the Bradford 2025 Artist-led Project Awards programme.

Find out more about this programme and the projects we’ve supported below.

See all Artist-Led Project Awards ↗
Credits
Supported by Bradford Arts Centre, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture and Arts Council England. With thanks to the National Theatre Generate Programme.

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