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April 16, 2018 / 0 Comments
Epstein’s Shakespeare double bill continues
This week there’s still time to catch two home-grown Shakespeare adaptations from two exciting female fringe playwrights. Helen Jeffery’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered last year, and Romeo & Juliet, adapted by Trisha Duffy, each form part of an ambitious, fully immersive, alternating repertoire at the Epstein Theatre, which sees the cast perform the […]
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April 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hamlet takes Off the Ground in new adaptation
“FROM metaphors to mobile phones, from cowardice to cameras, from Swedish House Mafia to Shakespeare, this is an in-your-face production of a true classic that you won’t want to miss” – so say Off the Ground youth theatre of their new adaptation of Hamlet, being staged in Liverpool this week. The company, best known for […]
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September 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Interview: Director Nick Bagnall on The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“People who want ‘traditional’ Shakespeare – I don’t know what that is,” laughs Nick Bagnall. “I like to think if Shakespeare was here today he’d be using all he possibly could to be telling stories.”
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December 17, 2015 / 0 Comments
PurpleCoat return with ‘Shakespeare’s Game of Thrones’
Liverpool-based PurpleCoat have been a bit quiet of late – but roared back into life this week with two epic new productions, backed by Arts Council cash. After seven years producing work with their adult and youth cast, staging productions in the city and on tour across the UK, they have been awarded a small […]
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March 26, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liverpool Everyman
Traditionalists, look away now – the new Ev’s second Shakespearean outing is certainly determined to stand out from the crowd. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably one of the Bard’s best-known and most ubiquitous plays; and with this production, new associate director Nick Bagnall puts a bold stamp on things. Attracted more to the darkness […]
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August 21, 2014 / 0 Comments
PurpleCoat’s Twelfth Night
Liverpool’s PurpleCoat are hitting the road next month, taking Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night on tour across the UK and Ireland. Supported by Stephen Fry, the RSC and National Theatre, and well into development of their first feature film, this will be the company’s first tour. Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s most bittersweet comedies, and […]
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August 15, 2012 / 0 Comments
Altru youth theatre’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
A few weeks ago I wrote about Knowsley-based group Altru drama, and how they had been picked as one of the community theatre companies to perform on the outdoor stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. To c…
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April 19, 2012 / 5 Comments
Gallery: Henry V, Liverpool Playhouse
Here’s an absolutely stunning set of production pictures from Henry V, currently running at the Playhouse theatre. The show, a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe and directed by its artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, is an authentic and visu…
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April 12, 2012 / 0 Comments
Henry V opening night at the Playhouse
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse marked the opening night of Henry V tonight, directed by Shakespeare???s Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole and with History Boys star Jamie Parker in the titular role. Henry V is now on at the Playhouse until…
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April 18, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Living With Macbeth, Parr Street Studio 2
Reading the set up of Living With Macbeth was immediately reminiscent of the ending of the film Withnail & I. Decribed as a ???psychological story about reminiscence and past glories, about actors, what they do???.and what they should not do???, and esp…
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February 18, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Macbeth, Studio Liverpool
It???s been one of those sneaky weeks, where on the surface it might not have looked like there was much to go out and see, but after a bit of investigation there was just loads to find going on. When I came home to Twitter just how much I???d enjoyed…
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