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October 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Spine at the Playhouse Studio
In an era of political disillusionment and generational divides, has politics forgotten the people it represents? And, what price do we put on knowledge? From fast-rising playwright Clara Brennan and starring Rosie Wyatt, the UK tour of critically acclaimed, award-winning play Spine opens at the Playhouse Studio tomorrow (October 11). Spine charts the unlikely friendship […]
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April 8, 2015 / 0 Comments
This week: Plastic Figurines at the Playhouse
Ella Greenhill is one of Liverpool’s up-and-coming playwrights and her new work Plastic Figures premieres at the Playhouse Studio tonight and tomorrow. Produced by Manchester-based theatre company Box of Tricks, Liverpool is the first stop on a national tour for the play, described as “moving and touchingly funny”. Inspired by events in Greenhill’s life, Plastic […]
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June 12, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
This revival of South African apartheid era drama Sizwe Banzi is Dead came to the Playhouse Studio following a national tour of the production, which began life at the Young Vic earlier in the year. And it was a return to the city for director Matthew Xia, who recently spent a year at the Everyman […]
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October 29, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Scrappers, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
Scrappers is a debut play from a graduate of the Playhouse’s young writers programme, but with an impressive set design to almost rival any production in the main theatre auditorium, from first glance it’d be hard to guess. Based in a Fleetwood scrapyard on its last legs and at war against encroaching property developers, […]
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September 30, 2013 / 0 Comments
Cathy Tyson in Monkey Bars
It’s another return for an Liverpool Everyman alumnus this week – the turn of Mona Lisa and Band of Gold star Cathy Tyson, who will feature in Monkey Bars, a comedic verbatim show where children’s conversations are re-enacted by adults – playing adults – in adult situations. It opens tomorrow (October 1) and runs until […]
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September 27, 2013 / 2 Comments
REVIEW: A Day of Pleasure, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
Stuart Richman is one of the founders of the original Everyman rep. This one man show, based on the life and stories of Nobel Prize-winning Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, was first scheduled for this time last year but had to be postponed. Blurring fact and fiction, it is set in 1978 as Singer awaits […]
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September 17, 2013 / 0 Comments
From birth to death with The Paper Birds
Acclaimed all-female theatre company The Paper Birds come to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio with their latest Edinburgh festival success next month. On the One Hand is an original verbatim piece telling intertwined stories of six women at different stages of their lives, exploring what it means to age. The company’s 10 year anniversary show, […]
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February 28, 2013 / 0 Comments
Panto dame Tucker in new one-man play
You’ll know him best as the outrageous dame, stealing the show of the Everyman and Playhouse pantos. But comic actor Francis Tucker will be showing another side in Robert Farquhar’s new comedy Di Is Dead, coming to the Playhouse Studio in April. The Peccadillo Theatre Company production “takes an affectionate, deeply scurrilous, and very funny […]
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February 23, 2013 / 0 Comments
More Sink or Swim
Liverpool-based Spike Theatre marks its 15th anniversary this year with its latest show Sink or Swim, a new comedy about three men shipwrecked and set adrift in a lifeboat. The company, whose recent shows have included Top of the World, Danny the Champion of the World and The Games, will be touring the North West […]
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February 22, 2013 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Sink or Swim, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
Sink or Swim is a new show celebrating 15 years of its creators Spike Theatre, and showcases a Liverpool company continuing to make some of the most heart-warming, fun and enjoyable theatre you could see anywhere. It is all a bit scaled down compared to their last show, The Games, and seems somewhat penned in […]
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