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  March 26, 2012 / 1 Comment

  Review: The Games, Liverpool Unity Theatre

  The Games is a fantastic little show that has developed over the last couple of years from a one-off at the Unity to a success on the Edinburgh Fringe, and now a full on touring production. Hooray for Spike Theatre (for it is they), and their tena…

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  March 9, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Improvathon and Spike Theatre stuff

  If you really really must read another site about arts and culture in this city, let me direct you over to Seven Streets, where I’ve had a couple of things published recently that are worth a mention here. First of all, it turned out 800 words on …

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  July 29, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Good luck to The Games

  I had the pleasure tonight of catching the revised and rejuvenated production of Spike Theatre’s The Games before it heads up to the Edinburgh Festival. Could it be too much of a sweeping statement to say you’d be hard pressed to find a funnier th…

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  May 28, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Rinty Boos, Jollyboats and Legions of Doom

  It???s been a good ???un this week, with the chance to see a few new things, as well as seeing old favourites in a different way. The Spike Theatre Variety Pack fundraiser was held at the Kazimier on Thursday night, to help them in their effort to sen…

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  May 16, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Spike Theatre’s Variety Pack fundraiser

  Award winning Liverpool theatre company Spike will be holding a special one-off variety fundraiser at The Kazimier to raise what should be the last of the money needed to take their show The Games to the Edinburgh Festival this summer. Variety Pac…

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  May 9, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Come On Girls!

  Come On Girls! is a brand new live entertainment concept hitting Liverpool this week, combining “the magic of television but with the intimacy and uniqueness of a night at the theatre”. Inspired by a similar format that began in Canada, it is the …

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  February 10, 2011 / 1 Comment

  Getting The Games to Edinburgh

  Spike Theatre???s most recent show was a tale of a group of underdogs travelling cross country to achieve their dream. The Games, a fantastic new comedy set in ancient Greece and inspired by the Olympics, saw its heroes overcoming a range of obsta…

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  October 23, 2010 / 0 Comments

  Review: The Games, Unity Theatre

  Crikey, it???s grim out there these days isn???t it? Colds and flu, winter drawing in, Tories and cuts??? and in theatreland in Liverpool, it???s still all incest, doomed Egyptian queens and Nazis. Time for something completely different ??? enter The Games…

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  October 18, 2010 / 0 Comments

  A busy week at Unity

  Big shows have taken over the city for the next few weeks, with most theatres now settled into the rhythm of some major productions. But it’s all go at the Unity, which hosts three different touring shows this week, including the world premiere to…

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