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June 6, 2016 / 0 Comments
Motherhood under the spotlight in Liverpool baby shows
Two new plays about pregnancy are on their way, and needless to say there’s a vested interest here at MADEUP. This week sees the flying visit of Amy Golding’s Preggers – with not just an evening show, but a morning performance for those with babes in arms. Amy Golding, the artistic director of Newcastle’s Curious […]
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August 23, 2015 / 0 Comments
Marx Brothers’ Doppel Gang at the Lantern
A new comedy play inspired by the Marx Brothers embarks on a nationwide tour this autumn, and is stopping off at the Lantern on September 12. The Doppel Gang is a new comedy by Just Some Theatre Company’s Dominic Hedges: War wages in Europe, while back in Blighty a group of entertainers battle to save […]
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August 2, 2014 / 0 Comments
Bobby & Twenk
“Think Cagney and Lacey on very strong drugs,” says the blurb from new production Bobby & Twenk, which comes to the Lantern next month From the mind of Brian S Charity, a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers’ Programme,comes “a delightfully daft romp through the world of television”. Bobby and Twenk are detectives. […]
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May 18, 2014 / 0 Comments
Joe Orton classic Loot at the Lantern
Emerging theatre company Big Teeth return to the Lantern this week with their second production, of Joe Orton’s 1960s satire Loot. Big Teeth, comprising of graduate performers based in Liverpool, aim to give a chance to see modern classic works that are often discussed and critiqued, but not often seen live on local stages (their […]
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April 29, 2014 / 0 Comments
Double bill at the Lantern
A double bill of two classic plays – My Mother Said I Never Should and The Caretaker – opens at the Lantern Theatre this week. PurpleCoat productions will present Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker on May 1 and 3, and all-women classic, My Mother Said I Never Should, by Charlotte Keatley on May 2 and 4. […]
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March 16, 2014 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Network Theatre’s The Crucible
Liverpool Network Theatre Group’s first 2014 production is Arthur Miller’s enduring masterpiece The Crucible, which you can catch at the Lantern Theatre this week. Set during the Salem witch trails of 1692, the play draws parallels with the McCarthy witch hunts of 1950s America, of which Miller himself was a focus. The play’s themes of […]
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February 27, 2014 / 0 Comments
To Sleep
Covering one night in the lives of two strangers, To Sleep is a brand new play by Matt Fox which explores how people deal with the most difficult human situations. It comes to the Lantern on Saturday, March 8. Director Peter Hynds began his career as a member of the Playhouse Youth Theatre, and went […]
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October 9, 2013 / 0 Comments
When office politics gets out of hand…
“If you’ve ever worked somewhere and wondered, ‘how did I end up here with these people!?’ then this is the show for you,” say Foraois Productions, the company behind new play Letter-headed Paper, that comes to the Lantern this weekend (October 12). Sheila, Ken, Olivia and Amy work in the same office, 9 to […]
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September 30, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Disappearance of Sadie Jones at the Lantern
“Lyricism, language play and poetic physical performance combine in this visceral and intuitive portrait of mental illness,” say the makers of the rather intense-sounding The Disappearance of Sadie Jones. Drawing inspiration from Strindberg’s Dream Play, the latest work from writer and theatre-maker Hannah Silva depicts the story of Sadie; a young woman battling a […]
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March 24, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Uncle Vanya, Lantern Theatre
Liverpool Network Theatre believes in theatre as a political force that should be accessible to all, a medium with the power to change society for the better. If that sounds heavy-going, don’t let that put you off. Its latest production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya was a shining example of this – a play with a […]
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