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INTERVIEWS
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October 27, 2016 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: Josette Bushell-Mingo
FROM the experimental physical theatre of Liverpool’s Hope Street Ltd to the West End, Josette Bushell-Mingo has had an extraordinary and far-reaching career. A Unity Theatre patron, the London-born actress, singer and theatre maker has reached another high point with the success of her latest work, the excellent Nina – A Story About Me and […]
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September 17, 2016 / 1 Comment
Interview: Shake It Up Baby writer Suzan Holder
Suzan Holder is the writer of Shake It Up Baby, one of the plays in this year’s Ticket To Write festival coming to the Unity next week. The festival’s artistic director Francesca Goodridge and producer Max Emmerson are both up-and-coming talents to watch, since their acclaimed revival of Shout: The Mod Musical made it from […]
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September 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Interview: Director Nick Bagnall on The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“People who want ‘traditional’ Shakespeare – I don’t know what that is,” laughs Nick Bagnall. “I like to think if Shakespeare was here today he’d be using all he possibly could to be telling stories.”
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August 23, 2016 / 0 Comments
Interview: The Brink playwright Helen Jeffery
A powerful new play about postnatal depression comes to the Unity next month. The Brink reflects the real-life story of its writer, high school teacher Helen Jeffery. She was compelled to share her experience with the aim of helping others suffering through similar, and hopes to tour the piece and take it to the Edinburgh […]
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May 31, 2016 / 0 Comments
YEP’s Young Directors Festival takes off
The YEP Directors Festival returns to the Everyman for the third year this June, showcasing the work of six young up-and-coming theatre makers at the end of the first year of their two year course. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance, and the plays span a variety of regional and national modern […]
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April 19, 2016 / 0 Comments
Interview: Kicking Off writer Robert Farquhar
Robert Farquhar is one of Liverpool’s most prolific and well-known working playwrights; his credits include Dead Heavy Fantastic, Live Forever, and being one third of the wonderful and much-missed company Big Wow. Now, he is turning his attention to the silver screen – his play God’s Official has been turned into a film, Kicking Off, […]
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November 20, 2015 / 0 Comments
Interview: Panti Bliss
“My theatre shows are essentially monologues – comedy with a bit more of a serious message wrapped up in them,” Rory O’Neill explains. “The show is just stupid fun. But I hope when you leave it’s given you something to think about.” If the name doesn’t ring a bell yet, you might know him better […]
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September 15, 2015 / 1 Comment
INTERVIEW: Liverpool Comedy Festival stand up Che Burnley
Comedy aficionado Che Burnley brings his new show Elvis Was Racist? to 81 Renshaw on September 22, as part of Liverpool Comedy Festival. The promoter, podcaster and stand up took the time to answer a few questions and tell us more: How did you get started in stand up? I’ve been doing it for […]
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August 26, 2015 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: Rosie Wilby
Ormskirk-raised performer Rosie Wilby returns to the region once again next month with her latest show as part of the Liverpool Comedy Festival; Nineties Woman is the story of her university days and her political and social awakening. Describing it as her most theatrical show to date, she looks back at her involvement with feminist […]
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August 19, 2015 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: Broken Biscuits writer Trisha Duffy
Trisha Duffy’s superb debut play Broken Biscuits was first produced at the Lantern Theatre last autumn. The play, which explores the friendship between two mothers whose sons go off to war, heads to the Edinburgh Festival this week. MADEUP spoke to Trisha to find out more about her writing and the play’s success. How long […]
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March 11, 2015 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: The Mole of Edge Hill playwright Ian Carroll
Liverpool city centre-based playwright Ian Carroll has written plays about historical figures including John Lennon, Tommy Cooper and even Hitler. More recently, he has begun to stage works in more unconventional venues, including his 2014 adapation of Frankenstein at the Bombed Out Church. His latest work, The Mole of Edge Hill, opens this month. MADEUP […]
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February 21, 2015 / 0 Comments
Interview: 300 Trevor Flemings
When it comes to improvisation, Liverpool-based actor Trevor Fleming never shies away from a challenge. A member of comedy collective Impropriety, he is no stranger to endurance off-the-hoof performances, and will be taking part in the group’s next Improvathon (a 33.5 hour – or 2015 minute – non-stop show) at the end of next month; […]
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November 4, 2014 / 0 Comments
Interview: Le Gateau Chocolat
Black was one of the most stunning theatre shows of last year; and this week its creator, cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat, returns with a new version of the piece, accompanied by a 12 piece orchestra. The work, a Homotopia commission, tells the life of the extraordinary Nigeria-born, London-based drag artist and opera singer, […]
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July 31, 2014 / 0 Comments
Trickster Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing
Liverpool based theatre company Trickster has become known for its Shakespeare productions, usually opting for the high drama and intensity of the tragedies. This year, they are trying something different and their Much Ado About Nothing opens at the Kazimier next week. Led by founder and artistic director Cellan Scott and performed by a largely […]
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July 20, 2014 / 0 Comments
Profile: Fittings Multimedia Arts
It’s one of the city’s most prolific touring theatre companies, and one of its most avant-garde; but you might not have heard of Fittings Multimedia Arts. Tucked away in an office in the Bluecoat, the company – also based in Edinburgh – is inspired by storytelling and hidden histories, and celebrates its 20th anniversary next […]
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July 8, 2014 / 1 Comment
MATE Productions’ Grace and the Sea
MATE Productions is probably undergoing the biggest changes in its 14 year history. The Halewood-based company was set up in 2000 by Gaynor La Rocca, who always balanced a career in education and arts management with her passion for the group. Now, for the first time, she is throwing her efforts into MATE full time. […]
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June 5, 2014 / 0 Comments
Sir Henry lives – an interview with Mike Livesley
A home-grown show created on a shoestring that went on to have success in London and attract the attention of some of music and comedy’s national treasures is returning to the theatre where it all began. Sir Henry at Rawlinson End – an acclaimed verbatim performance of the 1978 spoken word LP by Vivian […]
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January 21, 2014 / 0 Comments
Crime, punishment and The Bells
“It has all my favourite things – showmanship, a great story, excitement, music, physicality, theatrical revelation… I have been wanting to do this particular play for a long time,” says Mike McCormack. The JMU drama tutor is talking about The Bells, a Victorian melodrama by Leopold Lewis that explored the story of an unsolved […]
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January 15, 2014 / 0 Comments
Project XXX
“Tim, I’m not going to buy you porn. You can get it from railway sidings like everybody else,” was a line in the sitcom Spaced. It was on TV in 1999. Ah, bless. A gag meaningless now to the Kids of Today, of course, with their Blurred Lines and their selfies and all that stuff […]
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December 11, 2013 / 0 Comments
Random Acts of Wildness: For One Night Only
“We do ask the audience to abandon all common sense at the door,” Graham Hicks says, explaining his latest project. Together with Aiden Brooks, this is pretty much par for the course from their comedy partnership as Random Acts of Wildness; and this Christmas they are turning the Unity into a party zone – […]
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