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April 17, 2018 / 0 Comments
Opera comes to The Casa
For one night only this week, professional opera company Flat Pack Music are bringing Mozart’s comic opera Cosi Fan Tutte to Hope Street venue The Casa. The company promises “two hours of beautiful operatic singing – in English with live piano accompaniment, laughter, comedy and a great storytelling worthy of Shakespeare – and all for only a tenner!” The story starts with an […]
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April 16, 2018 / 0 Comments
Epstein’s Shakespeare double bill continues
This week there’s still time to catch two home-grown Shakespeare adaptations from two exciting female fringe playwrights. Helen Jeffery’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered last year, and Romeo & Juliet, adapted by Trisha Duffy, each form part of an ambitious, fully immersive, alternating repertoire at the Epstein Theatre, which sees the cast perform the […]
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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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March 28, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Everyman’s Clockwork Orange
The Everyman Company 2018 will present the stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange in April, as director Nick Bagnall invites audiences into a world of milk, ultraviolence and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Created in 1986, Burgess’ stage adaptation was written 24 years after the publication of his original acclaimed novel. The infamous cult story […]
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March 7, 2018 / 0 Comments
New work Place & Chips premieres at Liverpool Unity Theatre
Unity Theatre associate artist Alice Bunker-Whitney debuts her semi-autobiographical solo show Place & Chips at the venue this week. A comic piece exploring the complex relationships we have with our bodies, Place & Chips is a described as “a highly interactive, personal and riotous piece of theatre, told through clown, physical comedy, storytelling and animation.” […]
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March 5, 2018 / 0 Comments
Royal Court launches Liverpool theatre company for BAME talent
Exciting news for the diversity of Liverpool’s theatre scene here – a brand new theatre company dedicated to producing, developing and nurturing existing and new talent from Liverpool’s BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities is launching next month. Boisterous will be run by Miriam Mussa and writer Maurice Bessman under the umbrella of Liverpool’s […]
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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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January 16, 2018 / 0 Comments
Bowie “theatrical road movie” comes to the Unity
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, a play celebrating David Bowie, comes to the Unity this week (January 19) as part of a UK tour. Described as “a theatrical road movie, thrillingly evoking Bowie’s London”, it tells the story of Martin, a young man living in a small Northamptonshire village, struggling with mental health issues. […]
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December 30, 2017 / 0 Comments
MADEUP’s best of 2017
Here we are again at the end of another year, so without further ado, here’s a bit of a list – the best theatre and performance from Liverpool (and surrounds) of 2017. Here goes; click on link for full review: 1 Ramin Karimloo, Edge Hill Arts Centre(January) Starting the year off right (to coin a […]
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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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November 8, 2017 / 0 Comments
Cartwright Cabaret celebrates work of playwright Jim
Cartwright Cabaret is an amalgamation of work featuring highlights from many of Jim Cartwright’s much-loved plays, such as Road, Two, The Rise, Fall of Little Voice, and Raz. The production will be staged by the Cartwright Drama Studio for a one-off Liverpool performance at the Capstone Theatre next week (November 14). The studio, based in […]
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November 8, 2017 / 0 Comments
Cartwright Cabaret celebrates playwright Jim
Cartwright Cabaret is an amalgamation of work featuring highlights from many of Jim Cartwright’s much-loved plays, such as Road, Two, The Rise, Fall of Little Voice, and Raz. The production will be staged by the Cartwright Drama Studio for a one-off Liverpool performance at the Capstone Theatre next week (November 14). The studio, based in […]
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October 30, 2017 / 0 Comments
Family and mortality explored in Declining Solo
What is it like to be a child to a parent who is changing, aging; no longer the person our memories carry? These are the themes explored in Declining Solo, a new piece from Bulgarian-born performer Katherina Radeva, who tells the story of her own father’s decline using music, text and dance. She says: “Declining […]
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October 29, 2017 / 0 Comments
INTERVIEW: Jinkx Monsoon
It’s nearly November, which means Homotopia is here – and for the first time, the LGBT+ arts festival is bringing a RuPaul’s Drag Race winner to Liverpool. We’re talking season five’s Jinkx Monsoon, an incredible singer and comic performer from Seattle, whose seasoned double-act The Vaudevillians is booked for two sold-out shows at the Unity […]
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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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October 18, 2017 / 0 Comments
On the Verge fest: A-Void
A-Void is a new dark comedy performance piece which invites its audience on a journey through an exploration of cult mentality, body politics and propaganda… quite literally – as it takes place on a bus. Inspired largely by the lies of the pro-Leave Brexit campaign, Donald Trump’s rise to power and “other political catastrophes”, A-Void, […]
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October 17, 2017 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Unearthed -horror-theatre with midnight performance
Liverpool Unearthed: The Bridewell is new horror-theatre experience, set in an old Victorian police station. Part of Hope Street Ltd’s On The Verge festival, there are performances in the unusual venue of the Bridewell Studios on Prescott Street (just up from the Royal Hospital) from October 19th to 22 – including a midnight performance. Bespectacled […]
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October 15, 2017 / 0 Comments
On the Verge fest: Pour and Serve
Pour and Serve by Caitlin Gleeson is a new solo performance – in a bar – that uses real stories to examine the language of sexual harassment and how it forms part of a sinister culture of violence against women. A drink with a bartender who flips the script on gender, power and ‘harmless’ banter, […]
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