All tagged spiketheatre
Great news for Spike Theatre, which now has everything in place to tour its latest show, Sink or Swim, early next year. The show was performed as a work in progress as part of the Everyword festival a few months back, and will return to the Playho...
A two-man Christmas Carol might seem a bit of a gimmicky thing, especially when the famous film and musical versions rely on large casts to create the bustle of Dickensian London. But once Mark Smith and Lewis Bray get into action, the idea works ...
Our friends at Spike Theatre will be giving their trademark puppetry and dark fairy tale stylings the festive treatment this year with a production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, talking place at the Lantern Theatre from December 1 to 10. The wor...
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...
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 ...
Here's a recommendation by proxy -- anyone round Kendal way this Christmas will be lucky enough to catch Liverpool's own Spike Theatre and their brand new festive show. Fairy tale fans take a mystical journey into the weird and wonderful realm of ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
It's full steam ahead (groan) for our friends at Spike Theatre, with two new projects on the go that sound fantastic. The company lost out on its Arts Council funding in the recent cuts, but it hasn't stopped them throwing themselves into business...
Today???s arts cuts - ?100m - would barely cover the cost of two Apache helicopters, if the lamentations of the liberal Twitterati are more than Chinese whispers. We???ve been spending that kind of money bombing Libya every night, apparently, if t...
From the international corporate malevolence of Disney to something a tad more grass roots now. Next weekend sees the nationwide protest of Theatre Uncut, an evening of performances of new short plays that the writers have given the nod to be used...
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...
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...
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...
