INTERVIEWS

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  November 18, 2013 / 0 Comments

  INTERVIEW: Julie Atlas Muz

  She’s known as the queen of neo-burlesque and is a former Miss Coney Island and Miss Exotic World, and native New Yorker Julie Atlas Muz returns to Liverpool this weekend with new full length theatre show Beauty and the Beast.   Described as an adult fairy tale, anyone familiar with the work of Muz and […]

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  September 15, 2013 / 1 Comment

  20 Stories High: Melody Loses her Mojo

  Hip hop, club art, beatboxing, slam poetry and puppetry are all coming together in a new show kicking off the Playhouse’s new season. And if at first Melody Loses her Mojo doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, read on. The curious may well be rewarded by this latest production from 20 Stories High, the […]

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  August 22, 2013 / 1 Comment

  Trickster Theatre on Othello at the Kazimier

  “Bringing together artists under a common cause, telling a good story well” is the ethos behind fringe theatre company Trickster, whose latest production Othello can be seen in the city next week.   Founded by Cellan Scott 16 years ago and formerly based in Studio Salford, the company established itself in Liverpool when he moved […]

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  May 9, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Interview: Scottie Road the Musical’s Caz and Britney

  Readers of this blog should be no strangers to our favourite Liver Birds Caz and Britney, aka Gillian Hardie and Keddy Sutton respectively (pictured above, right – left). Their show, Scottie Road the Musical, returns to the city this weekend, this time on the Epstein stage after a successful trial at the Unity as part […]

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  April 8, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Interview: Joe Egg actor Ralf Little

  Actor Ralf Little made his name as a teenage member of the Royle Family, before becoming one of the lead characters in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. At the same time a successful stage career bloomed, and now he is about to take to the stage of the Liverpool Playhouse in […]

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  April 1, 2013 / 1 Comment

  Interview: Impropriety’s Rosie Wilkinson and Angie Waller

  “It’s surreal, what goes on. I don’t hallucinate anymore. I’ve done so many now my brain knows what’s going on,” chirps Impropriety’s artistic director Rosie Wilkinson.   Final preparations are now underway for the fourth annual Improvathon, taking place this weekend at the Kazimier. The 33-and-a-half hour (2013 minute) show will start on Saturday afternoon […]

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  March 6, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Interview: 15 minutes with Scot Williams

  The last time I was in the vicinity of an actor-director-writer-producer type I was having my picture taken with scotchka-drinking lunatic Tommy Wiseau, the man behind cult film The Room. But yesterday, I managed a quick chat with Wavertree’s finest multi-hyphenate Scot Williams, who made a lot more sense all round and is pretty much […]

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  March 5, 2013 / 1 Comment

  Interview: Tony Teardrop director Jen Hayes

  This month sees the premiere of a piece of theatre quite unlike anything ever seen in the city before. Tony Teardrop will take place inside the bombed out St Luke’s Church at the top of Bold Street, in a new site-specific play from an original script part-set at the iconic city venue. It’s not a […]

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  February 23, 2013 / 0 Comments

  More Sink or Swim

  Liverpool-based Spike Theatre marks its 15th anniversary this year with its latest show Sink or Swim, a new comedy about three men shipwrecked and set adrift in a lifeboat. The company, whose recent shows have included Top of the World, Danny the Champion of the World and The Games, will be touring the North West […]

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  January 22, 2013 / 1 Comment

  Interview: Rocky Horror and Jesus Christ Superstar’s Ben Forster

  Actor and singer-songwriter Ben Forster, 31, had been performing in the West End and internationally for more than 10 years before being voted the winner of Superstar, the TV talent contest to find the lead for the 2012 arena revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. It’s fair to say life hasn’t been the same since. He, […]

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  January 4, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Interview with Big Wow theatre company

  It’s January. The Christmas decorations are coming down, the pantos are leaving town, people unwillingly go dry for a month and the credit card bills are landing on the doormat. All in all, it’s a bit grim. However, the savvy theatregoer will know of one sure-fire way to beat the new year blues, and that’s […]

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  November 21, 2012 / 1 Comment

  Interview with Next! actor Graham Hicks

  It???s been a hectic few months for Liverpool actor Graham Hicks, about to culminate with a reprisal of his role in one-man show Next! this weekend. Devised by Hicks and Chris Tomlinson as part of the Unity???s Making Art Plus scheme, the play is desc…

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  November 17, 2012 / 0 Comments

  What they did next: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

  If you???re watching a What We Did Next production and a call goes out for a doctor in the house, you should be fine. Arguably the most exciting exciting non-professional theatre company working in the city at the moment, WWDN is largely comprised…

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  October 23, 2012 / 0 Comments

  One year of the new Lantern

  It???s been a year since the Lantern Theatre was taken over by new owners, and the tiny venue is now ready to realise some big plans. MADEUP talks to its artistic director. When one door closes another opens, and that was certainly the case last Oct…

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  October 15, 2012 / 1 Comment

  Interview: Scottie Road the Musical’s Keddy Sutton and Gill Hardie

  L1. Gregg???s. TJ Hughes. The Cavern. Sausage rolls. Binbags. Welcome to the world of Caz and Britney, your heroines and guides to Liverpool in new show Scottie Road: the Musical. Keddy Sutton and Gillian Hardie are the pair behind scally double act…

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  October 5, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Interview: Actor Stephen Fletcher

  Everybody has things they want to do by the time they???re 30, and actor Stephen Fletcher hasn???t been doing things by halves. It has been a busy year so far and shows no sign of slowing down as he prepares his biggest project to date — brand ne…

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  October 2, 2012 / 1 Comment

  Interview: Liverpool Comedy Festival star Jake Mills

  The last time MADEUP spoke to Jake Mills, before the last Liverpool Comedy Festival, he was just about to graduate from Liverpool Hope Uni and was starting to ponder a full time comedy career. Flash forward 18 months and it’s still as much of a th…

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  September 24, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Interview: Choreographer Darren Pritchard

  Manchester-based choreographer Darren Pritchard is bringing his unique work 1, a piece in which he dances one song for one audience member at a time, to Liverpool this autumn as part of the Homotopia festival line up. The founder of dance company …

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  August 21, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Interview: DaDaFest comic David Roche

  “People ask me if being disfigured has had a big effect on my sex life, and the answer is yes, but not nearly as much as being raised Catholic,??? chuckles David Roche. It???s the tagline to his new one-man show, and he knows it???s a doozy. ???I call mys…

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  June 24, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Odds On Theatre: God’s Official

  For the actors behind this week???s upcoming production of God???s Official, it was never a question of if it was going to happen, but when. The show, which can be seen at the Unity Theatre this week, is a revival of an early work by Liverpool playwri…

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