The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool have announced a packed autumn season of music, theatre and poetry.
The season kicks off with two shows that are a part of BlackFest, Liverpool’s own multi-venue grassroots Black Arts festival. On 3rd October there will be a night of powerful spoken word as a range of local poets and wordsmiths bring their views and experiences to life.
The show will feature Dionne Simpson, Janoma Omena and Sabiya; artists whose work uses dark, witty, cynical and sometimes morbid humour and covers themes of abuse, race, culture and identity.
Then on 11th October, The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Black British composer with a participatory concert and an acclaimed one-man show from Tayo Aluko.
The Hope Metropolitan Singers return to the Capstone on 18th October with Amazing Grace, a performance featuring music from three different continents. The concert celebrating Black History Month will also serve as a memorial to one of the group’s most long-standing members Mark Julius.
As a follow-up showcase to the Liverpool International Jazz Festival, a triple-bill showcase concert will take place on 19th October and will take the form of a free admission Sunday afternoon event featuring three exciting groups of musicians based in the North West, each of whom will present a short set of unique and inspired music.
On 29th October, Troubled Waters will see a vibrant new tapestry of transporting tales winding through stories that have shaped humanity’s relationship with rivers. Storyteller Corinne Harragin, who has been touring the UK for the last 10 years, uses physicality and humour to tell stories that re-centre marginalised voices and silenced histories, bringing fresh questions to ancient myths and folktales for adult audiences.
Levitation ’25 on 1st November will see the annual Castles in Space festival of electronic music, featuring the best proponents of the genre, brought together in the Capstone with exclusive merch only available on the day. This year’s stellar line-up includes Lo Five, Jo Johnson, Loula Yorke, Pulselovers, Field Lines Cartographer, James Adrian Brown, and Stone Anthem.
A prog rock double bill on 14th November will see EBB – voted Prog Magazine’s Best New Band 2023 – and the acclaimed John Hackett Band take to the Capstone stage before the genre-defying Yuval Ron Trio showcase their virtuosic performance of various compelling and colourful compositions the following night on 15th November.
The Hope Metropolitan Orchestra will celebrate arguably the most influential musician of all time, in Beethoven The Master on November 15th. The concert will be the first of many from the orchestra that build towards the composer’s bi-centenary in 2027.
Closing the eclectic season will be enigmatic musician Craven Faults who creates epic modular synth homages to the dark, post-industral moorland that surrounds him. He brings his unique sound to the venue on 28th November in a show inspired by half-remembered journeys across post-industrial Yorkshire.
More details on The Capstone Theatre’s autumns season along with booking links for all shows can be found at capstone.hope.ac.uk.