Event type: Comedy

Kirkby can be the town of the future! A symbol of regeneration in the 1970s! You know what Kirkby needs? A ski slope… 

Donald Storm is head of Kirkby Council and he’s got an eye on creating a new destination for tourists from around the world. And if he can make a few bob in the process, so much the better. Together with his mate Geoff, a builder who may as well wear a ten-gallon hat, he hatches a plan to use taxpayers’ money to build a ski slope right next to the M57. Well, I suppose it’s handy for skiing into town.

Standing in their way are a trainee journalist from the Liverpool Echo and her burnt out supervisor. Between them, they take on Don, the council and even the Echo itself by setting up a new free press so they can speak their minds.

Kieran Lynn has written a brand new comedy about one of the wildest chapters in Merseyside history. It’s all downhill from here!

Read the free show programme on IssuuClick here to check out the trailer.Click here to view the original BBC Nationwide piece about the true life events. 

Cast confirmed: Holly Mimi Bernice, Vicky Binns, Paul Duckworth, Elliott Kingsley, Hayley Sheen and Michael Starke

Writer Kieran Lynn

Director John Young

Performance Information 

Please be aware this show contains strong language and adult references. We advise that only those 16+ attend the show.

Stalls tickets are available with a meal (served at your table before the show) for an extra £14 for one course and £20 for two courses at evening shows, or an extra £10 for one course and £16 for two courses at matinees. If you are eating with us please arrive at least an hour before the performance. 

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Tickets are available for the show alone in stalls, circle and balcony. 

BSL performance is on Tuesday 7 July  (interpreter Karl Llorca) . Audio Described performance is on Wednesday 8 July (describer Anne Hornsby). To book please contact Box Office on 0151 709 4321 or email lauren@royalcourtliverpool.com. 

Captioning will be available for performances for the final week of the show. Please contact Box Office for more details. 

Circle and balcony will open at 6.45pm. There are bars in both areas for pre-show and interval drinks. Stalls will be open from 6:00pm. 

If you are bringing a large group, every tenth ticket is free. This ticket will be automatically added to your basket on purchase. Meals and building levy must still be paid on your free ticket. 

NO BOOKING FEES ON THIS SHOW 

Please note – the bar will close 15 minutes before the advertised start time. 

Each ticket price includes a £2 donation which is used to support maintenance of our building, our community engagement and new writing talent development.

Please contact Box Office to book if you are a wheelchair user as we can only accommodate 5 spaces in our stalls seating area downstairs

A new show from one of the funniest comics working in the UK today, Paul McCaffrey brings us a warm, charming hour of comedy in which he asks: “Modern life is annoying but was it really much better before?”

Star of Live At The Apollo, BBC Three’s Impractical Jokers and Russell Howard’s Good News, McCaffrey was also handpicked to tour the country in support of two of the great stand ups of recent years, Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges.

An award-winning comedian in his own right, he’s headlined at the biggest comedy clubs in the country and performed numerous critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows as well as major music festivals: Reading, Leeds, V Festival, Bestival and Latitude.

Tickets on sale now.

“a comic of adorably skewwhiff charm”The Times

New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required. Let Mike worry about that.

As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskmaster. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.

Carpet-fitter turned comedian Jack Skipper delivers his debut, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated, stand-up hour with a show about how he went from a tradesman with no qualifications to a full-time comedian (with no qualifications) – offering insights into the endeavours of a working-class father struggling to navigate his way through life.

Tickets on sale now.

Guidance 14+

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

The country’s best comedians are coming to Liverpool for a spectacular all-star festive show! Catch a huge all-headline bill with Simon Amstell, star of his own wildly acclaimed global Netflix and BBC stand-up specials.

Joining is a mega line-up featuring Taskmaster icon Lucy Beaumont, Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You star Phil Wang, fast-rising Sharon Wanjohi, and viral phenomenon Sarah Keyworth as host. 

Josh Widdicombe is back on tour, not again! By now he has almost certainly mastered the art of stand-up, either that or he has wasted the last 15 years of his life. Come along and decide for yourself. Expect it to be shorter and with lower production values than Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, but funnier and with more references to tea.Josh co-hosts the hugely popular podcast Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett, which has somehow become so popular that they undertook a live arena tour in 2023 and released a book which topped the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. He’s co-hosted in over 30 series of the multi-award-winning Channel 4 series The Last Leg, is a team captain on Sky Max’s Rob Beckett’s Smart TV and co-hosts Sky’s Hold The Front Page. And he has an almost complete collection of Panini football sticker books.

Age guidance: 14+ (Includes strong language)U16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn’t wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them? 

THIS SHOW IS THAT THOUGHT. 

In that it doesn’t make much sense and is a bit weird on reflection. 

Sara Pascoe is a comedian and her children don’t sleep and her kitchen won’t clean itself and her husband “doesn’t want to be in it”. 

As seen and heard on Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Sewing Bee, Last One Laughing UK, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Mock the Week and co-host of Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club podcast.

Are You Good? A question that I think is fundamental to our humanity. In this show I will be helping you, the audience, find out if you really are thoroughly good or maybe quite evil, but in a fun way.

I always start out with the assumption that people are born good and then life happens. So, let’s pull back the curtain and see where your morals truly lie. Are you as virtuous as you think? With lots of audience participation (don’t worry, no one leaves unscathed) and a few silly songs we’ll have an entertaining evening and come out with our core values completely in tatters. Is it more important to be good or to be right?

It’s time to update what is a virtue and what is a sin. No biggie.