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January 10, 2017 / 0 Comments
Cartoonopolis to hit the road
A lovely good news story for the start of the year comes from Liverpool actor Lewis Bray, who set up a modest crowdfunding campaign to raise the last bit of cash to take his one-man show on the road and hit his target in less than 24 hours. Cartoonopolis was devised by Lewis with help […]
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November 28, 2016 / 0 Comments
Grin’s Dark Voices
It might be all panto and giant Shreks elsewhere in town these days, but not for Grin Theatre, who are revealing their dark side once more for a new night of monologues. The community group are launching their sixth year – and their own rep company – with Dark Voices, which they describe as “a […]
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November 27, 2016 / 0 Comments
Collaborative work raises dementia awareness
Still, Here is a collaborative play about the world of dementia, being performed tomorrow night (Monday, November 28) at The Casa on Hope Street. Presented by Potentially Brilliant Productions, this Lottery-funded piece is a culmination of 12 weeks of workshops in which participants shared their personal and professional experience of living with dementia. The company […]
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October 17, 2016 / 0 Comments
There’s Three Sides to What We Did Next…
Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next return next week with the North West premiere of the off-Broadway musical Three Sides. Written by Grant Olding – the composer of smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors – it is described as “a rom com for the modern age”. After a depressing new year, a chance meeting […]
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September 2, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Importance of Being Earnest at the Black-E
A new adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic The Importance of Being Earnest comes to the Black-E next week, courtesy of the theatre company based at the venue. Brimstone Theatre specialise in dark, gothic storytelling, and say of their version: “We are taking the script in a new direction. There will be more focus on […]
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August 7, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: As You Like It, Prescot Parish Church
MATE Productions‘ As You Like It has toured outdoor venues outside Merseyside and even took part in the RSC’s Open Stages performances for community groups in Stratford this summer. In partnership with Shakespeare North, the shows at the company’s base of Prescot may have meant the most of all – and the town’s support was […]
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August 6, 2016 / 0 Comments
Royal Court’s Youth Theatre Search for the Sandman
The Royal Court Liverpool Youth Theatre is back in the main auditorium this month, with a new show that they have devised and created with support from writer Maurice Bessman. Musical comedy The Dream Team will be the Youth Theatre’s fourth annual show on the main stage, following on from Badfellas and Starcrossed Lovers in […]
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July 6, 2016 / 0 Comments
MATE Productions take As You Like It to the RSC
Good luck to our friends in Prescot-based MATE Productions, who are off to perform their version of As You Like It at the RSC this weekend! Following on from the last year’s touring outdoor production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, MATE, in partnership with the Shakespeare North Trust and the RSC Open Stages programme, are […]
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June 15, 2016 / 0 Comments
Screening for youth theatre mental health film
Crosby-based youth theatre group Stage Door Theatre Trust is preparing for a special screening of its new film tackling stigmas in mental health. The company’s film, Baggage (One in Ten), began life on stage at the Lantern last year. A free charity screening takes place next Monday (June 20) at the Plaza cinema in Crosby. […]
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May 28, 2016 / 0 Comments
Review: You Kissed Me, Physical Fest
A special site-specific performance as part of Physical Fest (which has seemingly enjoyed something of a bumper, and very diverse, year of programming in 2016), You Kissed Me was a challenging, beautiful one-woman show that may have only played to a handful of people over several performances, yet will undoubtedly have provided an experience not […]
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May 8, 2016 / 0 Comments
Everyman’s Everyword new writing festival returns this week
Everyword, the Everyman’s festival of new plays and new theatre-making, stories, experiments and new ideas will spring to life this week – from Wednesday (May 11) to Saturday (May 14). With the theme of Stories from the City, it promises to “tell tales from the beating heart of the city to the gleaming horizon”. New […]
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April 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Burjesta’s Odyssey begins
Hope Street-based theatre company Burjesta returns this week with its 12th production, an in-house adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. A founding stone of Greek mythology, Homer’s epic story of monsters, magicians, witches and goddesses is part adventure, part romance, part Revenge Tragedy, and a tale which has been mesmerising audiences for more than 3000 years. […]
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March 8, 2016 / 0 Comments
Impropriety – winning awards and hosting first ever schools contest
Congrats to the ladies of Impropriety – company manager Angie Waller and artistic director Rosie Wilkinson – who scooped the ‘best social enterprise’ trophy at last week’s Women in Business awards. Not only that, but this week they launch a brand new community improv event to showcase their winning ways. Very sadly, following on from […]
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March 1, 2016 / 0 Comments
New writer examines faith and LGBT issues
“What does it mean to love, honour and obey – if you’re gay?” A new play exploring the issue from a religious perspective is being performed in Liverpool this week thanks to the support of St Brides’s Church in the Georgian Quarter. One Flesh is an original script by LIPA graduate Naomi Sumner, that tells […]
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December 17, 2015 / 0 Comments
PurpleCoat return with ‘Shakespeare’s Game of Thrones’
Liverpool-based PurpleCoat have been a bit quiet of late – but roared back into life this week with two epic new productions, backed by Arts Council cash. After seven years producing work with their adult and youth cast, staging productions in the city and on tour across the UK, they have been awarded a small […]
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December 2, 2015 / 0 Comments
Flamenco performance of classic Carmen
It’s better known as an opera, but this weekend a Liverpool flamenco group will be using the medium of dance to tell the classic tale of Carmen. Andalus Company, is a collective of dancers, singers and musicians and flamenco students. They say: “Alandalus Dance Company is a young group bringing Spanish traditional dance to the […]
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November 4, 2015 / 0 Comments
Everyman BBC One documentary to air
Looking forward to seeing this – the Everyman will take centre stage next week in a half hour film which is part of the BBC’s prime time On Stage season. The documentary goes behind the scenes at the Ev to find out how it is faring in testing economic times. Famous Everyman alumni including Alison […]
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September 23, 2015 / 0 Comments
Vital dance for the young at heart
This week MDI, in collaboration with the Bluecoat, presents VITAL!; an international evening of dance by older people. Performing on the night will be The GOLD Company from Australia; the Grand Gestures Dance Collective from Gateshead, Liverpool’s own 50 Moves, Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully and Bisakha Sarker, and Marple Movers / Laughing Knees from Stockport, coming […]
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August 11, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Netherley
That MATE Productions saw fit to stage its final performance of its three month tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the grounds of a Netherley nursing home tells you a lot about the company. The Knowsley-based community group is a close-knit one, and it’s this genuine friendship and passion that shows through in their […]
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July 30, 2015 / 0 Comments
Dr Faustus auditions
Hope Street- based Burjesta Theatre is auditioning for its next production, a modernised adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus is a classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil and eternal damnation in hell in return for 24 years omnipotence on earth. There a number of […]
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