All in COMMUNITY
Last night was the final performance of The Yarn, a show that first took to the Unity stage in 2011, before heading to this year's Edinburgh fringe. MATE Drama Workshop, a community group based in Halewood, decided to say goodbye to their intricat...
Here's news of another Liverpool homecoming after success at the Edinburgh Fringe. MATE Drama Workshop's The Yarn comes back to the Unity from the festival for two celebratory performances on September 18 and 19. And if it sounds a little familiar...
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...
Annie is this year???s production from the Liverpool Empire Stage Experience, which you can catch this week. More than 100 local young performers will be involved in the project, which gives them just two weeks to rehearse and put on a full scale mu...
The Ripple Effect was commissioned by the ATG Foundation ??? the charitable arm of the Ambassador Group, which runs the Empire, as part of the London 2012 Festival, to celebrate the Olympic Games. Sounds good, right? Where fellow Merseysider Frank C...
It???s the final countdown for community theatre group Altru, whose members will be performing at none other than the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company this week. The group, comprising of young people from Knowsley, will be taking their producti...
Be prepared to revisit the history of Liverpool, as a brand new theatrical experience is taking to the streets of our city this summer ??? the A Tale of Two Cities tour. Lovehistory is in the business of transporting Liverpool???s diverse, radical and...
Author Irvine Welsh has already pondered what might have happened to the characters of Trainspotting ten years on, in his own sequel Porno. This hasn???t stopped Tell Tale Theatre devising original new piece Users, which intriguingly intersperses fl...
Singers and performers of all ages and backgrounds are invited to audition for the next production from What We Did Next. The community group will be staging Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens later in the year, but first need to find the...
You might have caught a bit of Wonderland: The Trials of Alice being performed in the council chamber of Liverpool town hall during the Light Night celebrations on Friday. Described as "a brand new piece of writing, re-exploring Wonderland and wha...
MADEUP is pleased to hear that Tell Tale Theatre Company is returning with a new production next month. Users is inspired by the characters and events of Irvine Welsh???s Trainspotting. Described as ???an ensemble piece with a mixture of devised and s...
The next work from the writers of Grin Productions will be 3 Women, a series of monologues by three up-and-coming new playwrights. The Game is the debut play by writer Craig Arnold, directed by Ben Hallworth and starring Donna Lesley-Price (Kick T...
The Suitcase Ensemble is hosting some creative workshops dedicated to the local legend of Spring-Heeled Jack, described as "a proper Victorian Bogeyman (....or was he?) last spotted clinging to St. Francis Xavier's church in Everton". The collecti...
Bare is a forbidden teen romance with a twist. A pop opera set in an American Catholic boarding school, it tells the story of roommates Peter and Jason -- more than friends, his mother correctly guesses, although she can't bear to hear it. Bookish...
As Young Everyman and Playhouse go from strength to strength at the minute, there is a chance to see what they've been doing behind the scenes next week. The theatres' Young Technicians are getting ready to showcase a larger than life piece of pub...
It could be coincidental timing for a new piece of writing set against the backdrop of a Merseyside derby, as one might be due by the time this premiere comes round. The Match is an original play forming part of the Write Now one act festival, whi...
In 1995, Bram Stoker???s Dracula was adapted by playwrights John Godber and Jane Thornton. Godber is a visiting professor at Liverpool Hope University, which is one of the reasons why in house company Rock the Boat productions chose it for their fir...
A new adaptation of an Oscar Wilde classic by a brand new theatre company will take place at The Actors Studio later this month. Script in Hand productions will present The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Seel Street theatre on February 17 and 18. S...
Madcap comedy trio and friends of MADE UP the Legion of Doom are back, back, BACK next week, with a new spin on their regular Comedy Knights at Mello Mello. The boys -- Rob Bond, Oli Bond and Lee Hithersay -- started out performing sketches at the...
A rarely-performed John Godber adaptation of the story of Dracula is coming to the Liverpool stage. A new production at Hope University's Capstone theatre, it is a new direction for Rock the Boat, the institute's own in-house performance company. ...
