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July 22, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hope Street Limited bows out with ‘biggest and best’ final show
AFTER 30 years of providing training, guidance and support to emerging artists in Liverpool, Hope Street Limited‘s latest performance piece, Climate Change is Rubbish, is sadly also its last.
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July 13, 2018 / 0 Comments
One-man football play Bottleneck heads to Hope Street
ONE-MAN show Bottleneck is a coming-of-age story about a teenage boy growing up in Liverpool in the late 80s. Luke Barnes’s 2012 play, first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, comes to the city next week in a revival from upcoming company Hiding Place Theatre.
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June 14, 2018 / 0 Comments
Music, comedy and pirates – it’s Jollycon
A DAY-long celebration of all things Jollyboat takes place this weekend, as fans of the musical comedy duo meet up for the first ever ‘Jollycon’.
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June 11, 2018 / 0 Comments
Raunchy comedy The Plumbing comes to Liverpool Fringe
THE Plumbing, a new production from Bespectacled Theatre opening at The Casa this week, is described as “a raunchy new comedy about sex and growing up”.
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June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Treasure Island, Prescot Woodland Theatre
IT is always a pleasure to get back to what is now known as Prescot Woodland Theatre, in church grounds where local success story MATE Productions stage their annual ensemble show.
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June 1, 2018 / 0 Comments
King of the World trumps the Liverpool Fringe Fest
A DARK comedy examining life of the powerless under despotic regimes will premiere in Liverpool next week. King of the World is set in a land ruthlessly ruled over by a perma-tanned monarch with strange orange hair – although, “any similarity to any present day President is entirely coincidental, of course,” teases playwright Brian Coyle.
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May 27, 2018 / 0 Comments
Confessions of a Touring Nun brings cabaret to Hope Street
FOLLOWING last year’s debut Christmas production of Beauty and the Beast, Drops of Light CIC are back this June with a brand new show in Liverpool’s newest venue, The Hope Street Theatre. Confessions of a Touring Nun is the first in a series of cabarets from the company and sees creative director James Lacey return […]
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May 6, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Ruby Slippers returns!
LGBT comedy-drama The Ruby Slippers is coming back to Liverpool this summer, in another new space in the Royal Court. A studio space is opening up in the Roe Street venue, and the show stops by from July 24 to 28 as part of this year’s Liverpool Pride programme. Life is a drag at The […]
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April 19, 2018 / 0 Comments
Ahoy there MATE-ys: Prescot company off to Treasure Island
A “SPECTACULAR steampunk inspired re-imagining” of Robert Louis Stephenson’s pirate epic Treasure Island will be touring outdoor venues in the region this summer before an Edinburgh Fringe run – and the fun begins this weekend as the production debuts at the Unity Theatre. Directed and produced by Prescot-based MATE’s artistic director Gaynor La Rocca with […]
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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 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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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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November 5, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Birth of Death, Edge Hill Arts Centre
Descriptions such as ‘brave’ or ‘thought provoking’ are easily thrown about in relation to deeply personal solo performances (and not always rightly applied); even moreso to those tackling subjects we often try not to think about. In the case of The Birth of Death, however, in sharing her own experiences Joanne Tremarco creates a remarkable […]
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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 19, 2017 / 0 Comments
Drama tells Hillsborough survivor’s story for first time
96/27 is a true account of a survivor’s experience of Hillsborough. The play, that will be performed in a cramped changing room as part of Hope Street Ltd’s On the Verge festival this week, aims to communicate how the aftermath of a traumatic experience can cause mental health issues and asks the question ‘can storytelling […]
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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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