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June 11, 2018 / 0 Comments
Raunchy comedy The Plumbing comes to Liverpool Fringe
THE Plumbing, a new production from Bespectacled Theatre opening at The Casa this week, is described as “a raunchy new comedy about sex and growing up”.
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April 17, 2018 / 0 Comments
Opera comes to The Casa
For one night only this week, professional opera company Flat Pack Music are bringing Mozart’s comic opera Cosi Fan Tutte to Hope Street venue The Casa. The company promises “two hours of beautiful operatic singing – in English with live piano accompaniment, laughter, comedy and a great storytelling worthy of Shakespeare – and all for only a tenner!” The story starts with an […]
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March 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
Shakespeare’s history plays combined in new Burjesta production
Hope Street-based community theatre group Burjesta are combining nine of Shakespeare’s history plays into one ambitious production in their latest show, which opens at the Casa next week. Shakespeare: War Plays will cram in 150 years of British history, from the Hundred Years War to the War of the Roses. Adapted entirely from the text […]
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April 13, 2016 / 0 Comments
Burjesta’s Odyssey begins
Hope Street-based theatre company Burjesta returns this week with its 12th production, an in-house adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey. A founding stone of Greek mythology, Homer’s epic story of monsters, magicians, witches and goddesses is part adventure, part romance, part Revenge Tragedy, and a tale which has been mesmerising audiences for more than 3000 years. […]
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July 30, 2015 / 0 Comments
Dr Faustus auditions
Hope Street- based Burjesta Theatre is auditioning for its next production, a modernised adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus is a classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil and eternal damnation in hell in return for 24 years omnipotence on earth. There a number of […]
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March 22, 2015 / 0 Comments
Greek tragedy at the Georgian Quarter
Burjesta Theatre’s take on classic Greek revenge shocker Medea opens tomorrow night (Monday) at the Casa on Hope Street. “Medea is a truly subversive play which has shocked and divided audiences for the last 2,500 years,” they say. Euripides’s tragedy, written in 431BC, tells the storng of the titular Medea, lover of Jason – of […]
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May 4, 2014 / 0 Comments
Burjesta Theatre’s Reign of Vampires
Casa-based Burjesta Theatre present their eighth production this week, the spooky-sounding Reign of Vampires. They say: “In the 19th century Karl Marx used the vampire as a metaphor for the capitalist class he saw around him. We’ve taken his idea and applied it to the 21st century, thrown in a bit of Blade, a sprinkling […]
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November 27, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Poisoner’s Progress at the Casa
The Casa bar’s own bunch of players Burjesta Theatre present their Christmas show this week – and true to form it’s something a little bit different. The Poisoner’s Progress is described as “a bittersweet romance of all things sugary”, with a night that unfolds in the style of an advent calendar. They say: “See the […]
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July 15, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Belly of Merrie England weekend spectacular
More tea vicar, and all that; pictured above is burlesque lady and jazz singer Mimi Amore, who will be just one of the performers over the weekend at the Casa. The Hope Street bar is playing host to resident theatre company Burjesta‘s summer festival of performance, incorporating drama, music, burlesque, live music and clowning. […]
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July 1, 2013 / 0 Comments
Burjesta Theatre’s The Real Monster Revealed
Casa-based theatre group Burjesta hold a one-night only event this week in support of Merseyside Asbestos Victim Support Group. The Real Monster Revealed is described as: “A tale of industrial pollution, the appropriation of science for profit; the continuing battle to rid the world of asbestos and the exploitation of workers worldwide.” Taking […]
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April 5, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Jesus Conspiracy at the Casa
A controversial play that re-works the New Testament comes to Liverpool next week. Burjesta Theatre warns that their production of The Jesus Conspiracy is “not for the faint-hearted” and features scenes of a sexual nature and nudity, which all in all makes for a very different sounding kind of night at the Casa bar on […]
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