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COMMUNITY
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October 24, 2018 / 1 Comment
REVIEW: Willo the Wisp and the Fire Sprite, Prescot Woodland Theatre
HARRY Potter meets a Shakespeare comedy with a little Tolkien thrown in for good measure in this lovely new promenade piece from Prescot’s own MATE Productions.
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August 22, 2018 / 0 Comments
Theatre group run in memory of founder member
A TEAM from city-based community theatre company What We Did Next will be taking on the Great North Run, in memory of one of their founding members who died this summer.
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August 2, 2018 / 0 Comments
Off the Ground tours new adaptation of Sinbad
THERE’S still time to catch outdoor theatre specialists Off the Ground this summer, currently touring their own adaptation of Sinbad – “like you’ve never seen it before.” The production still has some performances in Wirral and Cheshire before heading over to Ireland later this month. Written by novelist and company graduate Connor Wray, who also […]
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June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Treasure Island, Prescot Woodland Theatre
IT is always a pleasure to get back to what is now known as Prescot Woodland Theatre, in church grounds where local success story MATE Productions stage their annual ensemble show.
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May 31, 2018 / 0 Comments
Sondheim’s Assassins marks ten years of What We Did Next
COMMUNITY musical theatre group What We Did Next celebrates ten years of productions this year – and are bringing Stephen Sondheim’s dark, Tony award-winning Assassins to the Unity next week.
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April 19, 2018 / 0 Comments
Ahoy there MATE-ys: Prescot company off to Treasure Island
A “SPECTACULAR steampunk inspired re-imagining” of Robert Louis Stephenson’s pirate epic Treasure Island will be touring outdoor venues in the region this summer before an Edinburgh Fringe run – and the fun begins this weekend as the production debuts at the Unity Theatre. Directed and produced by Prescot-based MATE’s artistic director Gaynor La Rocca with […]
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April 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hamlet takes Off the Ground in new adaptation
“FROM metaphors to mobile phones, from cowardice to cameras, from Swedish House Mafia to Shakespeare, this is an in-your-face production of a true classic that you won’t want to miss” – so say Off the Ground youth theatre of their new adaptation of Hamlet, being staged in Liverpool this week. The company, best known for […]
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January 17, 2018 / 0 Comments
Open auditions for Sondheim’s Assassins
If you fancy a new challenge for 2018, look no further than community theatre group What We Did Next, who are about to start auditions for their next production, Assassins. Assassins is a revue-style musical depicting historical events in the USA from 1865 to 1974, written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Most of the […]
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December 7, 2017 / 0 Comments
Storytime with Santa offers theatrical ‘alternative grotto’
Keeping with the festive theme, up-and-coming Company Theatreface are hosting an “alternative Christmas grotto” in north Liverpool this weekend. Storytime with Santa aims to offer a more substantial and affordable experience for families with young children. Running from tomorrow (December 8) through to Sunday (December 10) at Firwood Waterloo Rugby Club, the performance, by local […]
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December 3, 2017 / 0 Comments
Mother Goose at the Casa
Hope Street-based Burjesta Theatre bring panto to their home of the Casa for the first time this week – with a Mother Goose that promises “a combination of traditional pantomime and Italian ‘commedia dell’arte’ comic knockabout”, meets… Johnny Cash? Based on the original 1806 Drury Lane production, the panto tells the tale of Columbine and […]
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November 23, 2017 / 0 Comments
Beauty & the Beast the Black-E
Panto season is nearly upon us, and for something a little different this year, Beauty & the Beast will be the debut production from new theatre company Drops of Light CIC, who are busy transforming the city centre’s Black-E in to an enchanted castle for the venue’s first ever pantomime. They say audiences can expect […]
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October 27, 2017 / 0 Comments
Pop-up Macbeth for families comes to Lark Lane
Jovially described as “the halloween show you’ve been dying to see”, MATE Productions brings what they promise to be a riotously ridiculous modern retelling of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth to Liverpool’s Lark Lane this weekend. They say: “With outrageous accents, a ton of tartan and murder most daft, something wickedly funny this way comes!” There […]
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September 25, 2017 / 0 Comments
Football and dance combine in acclaimed performance coming to Liverpool
Five professional dancers will perform with five football players and even a referee, in an intriguing new piece of dance theatre coming to Liverpool for one performance only. The Match, by Barcelona-based international company Vero Cendoya Dance, will come to Toxteth’s FireFit hub pitch next month.
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September 8, 2017 / 0 Comments
Liverpool’s improvised soap is back, back, BACK!
It’s been a few years, but Impropriety have announced the return of their improvised soap opera concept this month, with a Swinging Sixties theme. Their unscripted, ongoing story, The Happening, will run every Monday for six weeks, from September 18 until October 23. 81 Renshaw is the venue hosting this year’s show. They say: “Come […]
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July 25, 2017 / 0 Comments
Off the Ground’s Around the World in 80 Days
Off the Ground Theatre starts its annual summer tour of open air performances this week, with its latest production Around the World in 80 Days. Adapted from the original Jules Verne novel by Off the Ground’s own Jim Foggin, who previously adapted Alice in Wonderland and Witches Abroad and who wrote A Legend of King […]
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July 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Pippin, Unity Theatre
Whether the company knows it or not, What We Did Next has a bit of a feel for being ahead of the curve. Their latest production Pippin is also being revived later this summer at the so-hot-right-now Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester – but obviously, WWDN got there first. They’ve also brought shows like Rent […]
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June 27, 2017 / 0 Comments
Magical musical Pippin comes to the Unity
Liverpool theatre company What We Did Next will be performing the award-winning musical Pippin, from tomorrow (Wednesday, June 28) until Saturday (July 1) at the newly reopened Unity theatre. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked), the musical tells the story of the titular Pippin, heir to Charlemagne’s throne, who is searching for […]
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April 8, 2017 / 0 Comments
Unity to ‘reawaken’ with sleepover event
An “all night vigil and 24 hour pilgrimage around Liverpool” will ‘reawaken’ the Unity Theatre – among many other happenings along the way – as part of The Handless Project: Journey, an ambitious new theatrical piece by artist Aleasha Chaunté, beginning on May 19. The work, “pushing the boundaries of theatre and performance”, as it […]
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April 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
Improv marathon starts crowdfunder with a difference
The Liverpool Improvathon is scheduled for May this year, and to cover increasing costs and support their amazing year-round community work, the company behind it have set up their first Crowdfunder. A rather standard way to fundraise these days, you might think – but not for Impropriety, who alongside the social media shout outs and […]
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March 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
Shakespeare’s history plays combined in new Burjesta production
Hope Street-based community theatre group Burjesta are combining nine of Shakespeare’s history plays into one ambitious production in their latest show, which opens at the Casa next week. Shakespeare: War Plays will cram in 150 years of British history, from the Hundred Years War to the War of the Roses. Adapted entirely from the text […]
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