Make it Write offers three shows for the Liverpool Fringe Festival. Kicking off with a double-bill on Thursday October 5 at The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L1 9EN.
In “Dancing at 3am” writer Fiona Leonard shows two very different women unfolding the poignant tales of their pasts when they are brought together in the rather surreal setting of dancing and cake making in the wee small hours. A moving and sensitive offering culled from the Fringe’s 24-hour play event. Directed by Julie Broadbent it stars Rachel Pennington and Kirsten E Hawkins.
It is partnered with “Down the Alley” by Brian Hutchinson and also directed by Julie Broadbent. Two homeless people, Ester and Charles, bed down at the back of The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. Charles is tipsy, battling his demons. Ester is displeased at him invading her private space. It stars Clare McGrath and Paul St German.
There are two performances on Thursday the 5th October one at 6.30pm and the second at 8.00pm.
Moving on to Thursday 12th October at The Studio below Make it Write has award-winning director and actor Abbey Fitzhenry who says she “loved casting and honoured to be directing “The Cat Box” – a very funny and clever piece by Karl Owens”.
It is a comic drama, set in South Manchester, focusing on members of the Northern Voices, Writers Group. These four socially disastrous, slightly damaged people, who without realising it, have only the writers’ group and each other to escape the horrors of the real world. It stars: Julie Frost, Alan McDonald, Tara J Mallinson and Rob Tovey.
The show is being shown twice: At 6.30pm and 8.30pm.
Make it Write’s third show on Friday October 13 at The Studio below is also a double bill.
Jamie Cunliffe’s “Uncle Toad” is a sinister, powerful drama. When the legendary evil uncle Nick (otherwise Uncle Toad) arrives unannounced, Chris learns some startling stuff about his past. But Nick’s nasty history is also entwined with Chris’s wife Maggie. What secrets will he disclose about her? It stars Dan Fieldsend, Clare McGrath and Andy Edwards. It is directed Sinead Renaye.
Equally disturbing is the other half of the double bill. It is Ian Cragg’s “I Hate Charlie Pickles” directed by Kevin Foott.
An ageing old style comic struggling to make a living yearns to shed his stage character and do something new. When opportunity knocks his agent is anxious about his abilities and hides the great chance. Fate takes a hand, but who has the last laugh? It stars Graham Padden, Sarah Howes-Dixon and Darren Jones.
It is also being shown twice on the same night at 6.30pm and 8.30pm.
The Studio Below is a bijou 30-seater venue available for hire through Make it Write.
Tickets for all the above shows are available through: Store.makeitwrite.org