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May 6, 2017 / 0 Comments
New Lizzie Nunnery play opens at the Everyman
New writing is in the spotlight with the Everyman Company’s penultimate production of the season, which opens tonight (Saturday May 6). Liverpool playwright Lizzie Nunnery’s latest work The Sum reflects the aspirations and concerns of families in the city. Described as “a powerful play with songs”, the company says the piece is about “finding the […]
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November 28, 2016 / 0 Comments
Grin’s Dark Voices
It might be all panto and giant Shreks elsewhere in town these days, but not for Grin Theatre, who are revealing their dark side once more for a new night of monologues. The community group are launching their sixth year – and their own rep company – with Dark Voices, which they describe as “a […]
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August 23, 2016 / 0 Comments
Interview: The Brink playwright Helen Jeffery
A powerful new play about postnatal depression comes to the Unity next month. The Brink reflects the real-life story of its writer, high school teacher Helen Jeffery. She was compelled to share her experience with the aim of helping others suffering through similar, and hopes to tour the piece and take it to the Edinburgh […]
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July 3, 2016 / 0 Comments
Lantern Theatre’s final Shiny New Festival
This month sees the fifth Shiny New Festival at the Lantern Theatre – and the last at the venue we know and love. It will be the theatre’s final in-house production at their Blundell Street home, and as such it will run for an extended length of ten days from July 15 to 24, due […]
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March 1, 2016 / 0 Comments
New writer examines faith and LGBT issues
“What does it mean to love, honour and obey – if you’re gay?” A new play exploring the issue from a religious perspective is being performed in Liverpool this week thanks to the support of St Brides’s Church in the Georgian Quarter. One Flesh is an original script by LIPA graduate Naomi Sumner, that tells […]
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October 19, 2014 / 0 Comments
Everyman’s Everyword festival returns
It’s been a brilliant comeback year for the Everyman so far, with the new, improved building clinching architecture’s star prize, the Stirling, last week, and following it up with a couple more accolades in the UK Theatre Awards today (Sunday). Huzzah! For a real taste of what makes the Ev tick, this week sees […]
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February 15, 2014 / 0 Comments
Come up to the LABB
Take a nostalgic trip filled with laughs, tears and grown-ups acting silly with new writing group the Writers LABB with their latest night of short plays. On Tuesday February 18 members of the Writers LABB carry on from their successful ‘pub’ themed night as they explore the subject of childhood. Four writers have been tasked […]
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November 4, 2013 / 0 Comments
Change of scene for Everyword
The Everyman’s annual new writing festival Everyword returns next weekend for a short but sweet run in an unexpected location. A host of familiar names and new partners will be teaming up for an event crammed full of inventive and imaginative talent. Everything will take place at the Royal School for the Blind on […]
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September 23, 2013 / 1 Comment
Grin’s new writing showcase
Voices is an evening of new writing featuring monologues from six city writers. It’s a new format for Grin Productions, who say: “It is hoped that this performance-based event will become a regular feature of our calendar and provide a platform for new writing on Merseyside and in the Northwest”. You’ll know Grin from the […]
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May 21, 2013 / 0 Comments
Trolley-Shaped Bruise at the Unity
Up-and-coming city playwright Laura Kate-Barrow has seen her work feature across a number of new writing showcases recently, and this week premieres her first full-length play. Trolley-Shaped Bruise is on at the Unity Theatre tonight (May 21) and tomorrow. Taking place over the course of one night, the play is a glimpse into the lives […]
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May 8, 2013 / 0 Comments
Broken & A Lot of it About
A touring double bill of two new plays comes to Liverpool this weekend. Broken and A Lot of it About are the latest from Manchester company Organised Chaos, which is dedicated to showcasing new writing in the North West. In Broken, May is desperately searching for something while Helen had everything she ever wanted and […]
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March 25, 2013 / 0 Comments
Annexe Writers stage new work at Flanagan’s Apple
“Four writers. One pub. One theme. No restrictions.” This week sees the return of new writing collective the Annexe Writers, who are promising a free glass of wine alongside four new plays at Flanagan’s Apple pub on Mathew Street this Tuesday (March 26). The one off event sees the writers responding to the theme of […]
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March 12, 2013 / 0 Comments
Alligator Club heads to Lancaster for Blackout
Theatre is dead. The collective experience is obsolete. The world moved on…. So begins Blackout, a new promenade piece from North West professional playwrights collective The Alligator Club. Their first two pieces, 100 Seel Street and Twisted Christmas, were performed in Liverpool last year; this time, they are taking the action to Lancaster. In their […]
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