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March 22, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Debt Collectors, Liverpool Actors Studio
This time last year Liverpool Actors Studio staged John Godber’s Teechers, the first in-house production by English Rice, who had taken over the venue. The playwright’s accessible style – both for audiences and theatres with tiny budgets – proved ideal for the place, so it is no surprise to see another of his works there […]
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March 7, 2014 / 0 Comments
John Godber’s The Debt Collectors
The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre’s next production from its in-house company, English Rice, will be John Godber’s The Debt Collectors, running from March 18 to 29. Join Spud and Loz, two out of work actors who fall into the world of debt recovery. It’s a role they despise but a job they were made […]
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February 21, 2014 / 0 Comments
Family musical Leave Hitler to Me, Lad
A family musical, set in wartime, with music from a member of a Santa Barbara pop punk quartet? That will be Duckegg Theatre‘s latest, Leave Hitler to Me, Lad, that comes to the Liverpool Actors Studio on March 4. The show has been performed on and off since an Edinburgh Fringe run in 2011, […]
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September 26, 2013 / 0 Comments
FEAR at Liverpool Actors Studio
License To Thrill theatre company’s upcoming production of FEAR is a contemporary version of the traditional French theatrical practice Grand Guignol – a genre that walks a fine line between horror and comedy. “Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment,” says Wikipedia. Ooer. “Do you want something […]
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August 22, 2013 / 0 Comments
Lennon conspiracy play returns to Actors Studio
One Bad Thing, a play exploring a conspiracy theory behind the murder of John Lennon, is currently enjoying a revival at the Actors Studio, where it was first performed in 2010. The play, by writer Ian Carroll, began life at the Unity in 2003. John Lennon is played by West End star Danny Taylor, who […]
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June 14, 2013 / 0 Comments
Punk Rock at the Actors Studio
This year’s LIPA Acting Graduates present a new adaptation of Simon Stephen’s Punk Rock at the Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre tonight and tomorrow (June 14 and 15) The new production tells the story of William Carlisle, a brilliant but troubled student at a sixth form in Stockport. The play follows the lives of William […]
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June 3, 2013 / 0 Comments
An Unquiet Mind at the Actors Studio
An Unquiet Mind is a new play by Hull-based writer David Pattison, making its Liverpool debut at the Actors Studio Theatre this week. Described as “brutal and realistic”, the two-hander tells the story of Topshop, a military veteran living on the streets and named after the label in the clothes he has found himself […]
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May 16, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Bottoms Up, Liverpool Actors Studio
Bottoms Up is a new play by Ryan Simons, who also directs and stars in this tale of one couple’s attempts to liven up their suburban marriage. Struggling with debt and having been made redundant, John (Simons) is barely coping in his day to day life with wife Janine (Emma Ashton), who we first see […]
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May 7, 2013 / 0 Comments
Bottoms Up at the Actors Studio
While The Full Monty runs at the Royal Court next week, another city theatre will be also be letting things all hang out so to speak, with the premiere of new comedy drama Bottoms Up. The play by, written and directed by Ryan Simons starts at the Actors Studio on May 14. John […]
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April 26, 2013 / 1 Comment
REVIEW: The Swan, Liverpool Actors Studio
The Swan, a new play by Pat Anderson, is based on the real life women’s community centre of the same name in Sefton. Using the location as the starting point for a fictional tale, this gentle, Calendar Girls-esque set up brings together a bunch of characters who seemingly have nothing in common, yet come to […]
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March 7, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Teechers, Liverpool Actors Studio
When they said Teechers was the Actors Studio’s first in-house production of the year, I didn’t think they meant it quite so literally. But the stars of this John Godber three-hander are the trio behind English Rice productions, who now run the place to boot. And there could be no finer introduction to Cath Rice, […]
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