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July 20, 2015 / 0 Comments
Off the Ground’s Musketeers
Off the Ground Theatre are busy sharpening their rapiers, practising lunges and flirting outrageously in preparation for this summer’s touring production of The Musketeers. There will be, they promise, “overwhelming amounts of swash and buckle” as the – now slightly older – heroes charm women (and some men), quaff wine and fight off Spanish and […]
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June 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Bonnie & Clyde, Unity Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde the musical might sound like something of a Simpson’s cutaway gag, and it’s true the 2009 show didn’t do great business on Broadway; but it has had a life beyond New York in the years since. A dramatic plot of crime and romance and plenty of strong, catchy numbers (courtesy of Don […]
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April 4, 2015 / 0 Comments
Comic wins £10,000 playwrighting prize
Liverpool Hope University is now the home of one of the UK’s biggest playwrighting prizes – and its first ever winner was announced at a special do this week. Rochdale stand-up comedian Katie Mulgrew took away £10,000 and the opportunity to have her work considered for production by the Royal Court. Katie, the only woman […]
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April 1, 2015 / 0 Comments
LEAP 2015: In conversation
The LEAP festival programme of contemporary dance goodies is over for another year. As it’s not so easy for me to get out and about to watch evening performances these days, I took the option of trundling along to one of their daytime talks, in particular the free event at MDI’s HQ, ‘Displaced Bodies: In […]
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March 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Greek tragedy at the Georgian Quarter
Burjesta Theatre’s take on classic Greek revenge shocker Medea opens tomorrow night (Monday) at the Casa on Hope Street. “Medea is a truly subversive play which has shocked and divided audiences for the last 2,500 years,” they say. Euripides’s tragedy, written in 431BC, tells the storng of the titular Medea, lover of Jason – of […]
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March 10, 2015 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Network Theatre take on Dracula
Catch Dracula, the upcoming Liverpool Network Theatre production at the Lantern, from March 19 to 21. The time is 1897, and when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to conclude a land transaction with the mysterious Count Dracula he makes horrifying discoveries about the Count that threaten the safety of everyone he holds dear back in England, […]
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November 29, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: [title of show], Lantern Theatre
[title of show] is written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, about two friends called Jeff and Hunter, playing characters called Jeff and Hunter in a musical they’re writing about the process of writing a musical. Got that? A kind of off-Broadway meta love letter to Broadway, Bowen and Bell wrote the show in three […]
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November 17, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Two, the Pilgrim
MATE Productions is known for its large community ensemble pieces, usually staged in the summer before heading up to the Edinburgh Fringe; this year, it was the specially-commissioned Grace and the Sea. But the Halewood-based company has upped its game considerably in 2014, with new projects in the pipeline that included this successful sell-out run […]
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November 16, 2014 / 0 Comments
Prepare for a Yuletide Paradise
“The strangest Christmas party this side of Alpha Centauri” is how the Suitcase Ensemble describe their new festive show. “An outlandish band of voyagers long for the perfect world, the Yuletide Paradise. Join their quest at an immersive feast of story, song and tripping the light fantastic.” Well, that sounds like an exciting enough […]
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November 7, 2014 / 0 Comments
Musical comedy [title of show] at the Lantern
That’s not a typo – the title of the show is indeed [title of show], a New York comedy musical being performed by What We Did Next later this month. Following the theatre company’s sell-out production of Carousel at the Unity in June, they say audiences should prepare for “laugh out loud moments, gorgeous […]
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November 2, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Animal Farm, the Arts Club
This new adaptation of Animal Farm is the second foray into classic Orwell for Tell Tale Theatre; they staged a barnstorming 1984 at the Kazimier a few years ago. This time, the community group recruited established city playwright Laurence Wilson to help turn their hand to the iconic allegorical tale. And once again, it captured […]
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October 30, 2014 / 0 Comments
Public performance of gun crime play
A play written to show young people the stark reality of becoming involved with gangs and guns is set to be performed for the general public at Royal Court Liverpool next week (Thursday November 6). Merseyside Police commissioned Maurice Bessman’s Terriers in 2008 as part of Liverpool’s highly successful Capital of Culture year. To […]
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October 19, 2014 / 0 Comments
Everyman’s Everyword festival returns
It’s been a brilliant comeback year for the Everyman so far, with the new, improved building clinching architecture’s star prize, the Stirling, last week, and following it up with a couple more accolades in the UK Theatre Awards today (Sunday). Huzzah! For a real taste of what makes the Ev tick, this week sees […]
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October 14, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Missing?, the Bluecoat
Missing? is a new work written and devised by Knowsley-based youth theatre Altru, an ensemble piece examining big ideas of loss, love, and humanity. Thanks in the programme are given to theatre companies including Paper Birds, Big Wow and Tmesis, and you can see their influences on this hour-long piece, a well-paced and well-measured mix […]
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October 6, 2014 / 0 Comments
Altru Youth Theatre presents Missing?
Altru Young Actors Company bring their latest production Missing? to Liverpool’s Bluecoat this week, following a successful premier at the National Festival of Youth Theatre in Fife. The company of young actors, aged 16 to 21, have all been members of Altru Youth Theatre groups, and have come together to create what they describe as “an innovative new […]
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October 2, 2014 / 1 Comment
REVIEW: United We Stand, Lantern Theatre
United We Stand is a new play telling the story of Des Warren, Ricky Tomlinson (yes, the Ricky Tomlinson) and the Shrewsbury 24, who were prosecuted in 1973 after their arrest during the builders’ strike the summer before. Warren, Tomlinson and one other member of the 24 were jailed. Their supporters are still campaigning to overturn […]
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September 24, 2014 / 0 Comments
Everyman to become Fun Palace
On Saturday October 4, the Everyman theatre will take part in a nationwide initiative in tribute to theatre director Joan Littlewood, to mark what would have been her 100th birthday by transforming itself into a Fun Palace. The Hope Street venue says it will break down the barrier between the audience and artists with a […]
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September 23, 2014 / 1 Comment
Impropriety’s ImproPlay and the end of Mello Mello
Unexpected and sad news, with the shock announcement that Mello Mello has gone out of business. From its support of some of the city’s most talented grass-roots performers (both on stage and as an employer) to serving the best veggie food in town (hello, goodbye, nachos) and having a real passion for decent beer, there’s […]
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September 7, 2014 / 0 Comments
British-African family drama at the Black-E
“You think England is hard? Compared to Nigeria? My dear, you haven’t seen anything yet!” Following sell-out shows at Arcola Theatre, award-winning British-African family drama Pandora’s Box comes to the Black-E this week as part of a UK tour. Nominated for this year’s Nigeria Prize for Literature (apparently Africa’s biggest literary award), and […]
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August 28, 2014 / 0 Comments
MDI’s over 50s to perform at Sadler’s Wells
Two older people’s dance companies who perform as part of Merseyside Dance Initiative have been chosen to take part in a national festival at specialist London venue Sadler’s Wells. The groups, Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully (or GODS, pictured), and MDI’s over 50s class 50 Moves, will participate in the Elixir Festival, happening in September. The […]
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