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December 8, 2015 / 0 Comments
New Dickensian satire in aid of food banks
The cast of a new social satire based on Charles Dickens’ classic tales – which includes the son of actor Oliver Reed – are hoping to appeal to the sentiments of his original stories in its premiere performance at the Lantern this week. In his song-cycle, New Dickensian, writer Dean Johnson and Mark Reed (yes, […]
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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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April 6, 2015 / 0 Comments
Matchbox Comedy strikes again
Matchbox Comedy Club is a new(ish) monthly night at the Lantern Theatre, featuring a line up of what organisers call “outside of the box” funny. Hosted by city standup Alastair Clark and featuring new and established fringe talent, it sounds like the audience and the acts can expect a bit of the unexpected, comedy wise. […]
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December 6, 2014 / 0 Comments
Tommy Cooper show returns to the Lantern
You may remember the Tommy Cooper Show premiering at the Lantern Theatre last Christmas; now, after a well-recieved Edinburgh Fringe stint in the summer and the approval of the Tommy Cooper Society for the convincing portrayal of the man himself, no less, it returns for another Christmas special. Liverpool actor Danny Taylor has been praised […]
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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 18, 2014 / 0 Comments
Morrissey and Marr give nod to new drama Still Ill
A “blistering new drama” about gay paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, set to the mnusic of The Smiths? Not a premise you hear every day. But so it goes with Still Ill, which is on at the Lantern this week as part of the ongoing Homotopia programme. To obtain the rights to perform any Smith’s […]
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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 5, 2014 / 0 Comments
Touring double bill at the Lantern
Northern Outlet Theatre Company brings a double bill to the Lantern this week as part of a mini tour of North West fringe venues. John and Mark is a new play by George Gunby about a musical legend and his killer. Set in the cell of a New York maximum security prison, the play sees […]
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October 28, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: It’s Play Time, Lantern Theatre
Writers on the Brink is a new collective that has been working under the tutelage of industry specialists to hone half a dozen short scripts. The results received a rehearsed reading at the Lantern last week, in which a sell-out audience became part of the process by having the chance to scribble down their feedback […]
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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 15, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Broken Biscuits, Lantern Theatre
Broken Biscuits is the story of two best friends and mothers whose inseparable sons went to war together; but only one returned. Get ready for an emotional ride, and one of the theatrical surprises of this year – this low-key dark horse is one of the finest new dramas I’ve seen in a long time. […]
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August 29, 2014 / 3 Comments
REVIEW: Young and Suicidal, Lantern Theatre
Young and Suicidal is a dark comedy exploring the relationship between two lost souls who make a pact to kill themselves together. Issue-driven and written for a teen audience, the two-hander follows Natalie and Smith through their ups and downs as they prepare for their final day. Written by director James Shaw and the cast, […]
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July 28, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Caz ‘n’ Britney, Jollyboat, Legion of Doom, various venues
The usual Edinburgh preview season has just about wrapped up in Liverpool, with a whole host of practice runs at indie venues across the city before the acts make their way up to the Fringe. For right or wrong I’ve been rather unadventurous with my time and stuck to what I know this year; as […]
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May 25, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Loot, Lantern Theatre
Joe Orton’s modern classic Loot isn’t for the faint of heart – or stomach, come to think of it; so with this production, Big Teeth theatre company got stuck in with gusto. The battered cardboard coffin, around which so much of this dark farce’s action is based, showed the young company were making the best […]
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May 23, 2014 / 0 Comments
Vera, Vera, Vera
A young man comes back from war far away in a wooden box; he’s then glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made in a small northern town in Lancashire, his siblings squabble over who he was and what they were to him… Vera, Vera, Vera, on at the Lantern this […]
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May 2, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Caretaker, Lantern Theatre
The Caretaker is a play that only takes place in one cluttered, neglected old room – so set designer Kaylie Joy Black clearly had a riot extending this into the audience space of the Lantern Theatre, which proves an ideal venue. As the tarpaulins and magazine artwork extend out into where we sit, the Pinter […]
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February 10, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Project XXX, Lantern Theatre
This provocatively-named one act play crams a lot into its 75 minutes, and tackles the subject of teenage sex and pornography with humour and empathy. Project XXX tells the story of Amy (Chloe Wade), a 15-year-old girl who is unwittingly caught out when a ratbag boyfriend secretly films a rather intimate act that ends up […]
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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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November 26, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Shiny New Comedy Lab
The Shiny New Festival was set up for city centre performers to preview their work in the summer before heading up to the Edinburgh Festival. It has attracted such a burgeoning grass roots scene that organisers have been devising ways to keep it going year round, and next week launch their Comedy Lab at the […]
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September 1, 2013 / 1 Comment
Haylo Theatre goes Over the Garden Fence
Over the Garden Fence is a new play from a new theatre company. Haylo takes its name from founders, writers and performers Hayley Riley and Louise Evans, two University of Chester grads who met working for an educational theatre company in the city. Now, 18 months on Haylo Theatre will present their debut at the […]
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