Event type: Performance

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!

 

Based on a true story of a family caught up in the 90s recession, It’s the Economy, Stupid!by Joe Sellman-Leava with Dylan Howells developed with and directed by Katharina Reinthaller

Date: 6 August 2025Time: 7pmLocation: Arts In Library , Chester Lane Library, Four Acre Lane, WA9 4DETickets: £5-£8

‘Smart, sharp writing…deftly blends the personal with the political’

★★★★ Natasha Tripney, The Stage

WINNER OF BEST ACTOR & BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

DarkChat Edinburgh Awards 2024

EDINBURGH 2024: BEST THEATRE SHOWS TO SEE

Lyn Gardner, The Stage

Based on a true story of a family caught up in the 90s recession, It’s the Economy, Stupid! reveals the heart, humour and humanity behind economics.

Using paper bags, an old board game and a pinch of magic, Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells calculate how their lives were shaped by the economies they grew up in, uncover how economics wins elections, and ask why the force that dominates people’s lives is so bloody complicated!

‘THIS SHOW ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE’

★★★★ Playbill

It’s the Economy, Stupid! has been praised for making economics accessible and entertaining, while connecting a deeply personal story to the financial realities we all face today: including the housing and cost of living crises. Taking its title from James Carville (who successfully framed the 1992 American Presidential election around the recession), It’s the Economy, Stupid! combines slick staging, innovative projection-mapping and magical storytelling, to reveal the true cost of low financial literacy in money-dominated world.

Developed with and directed by internationally acclaimed Katharina Reinthaller, and produced by Worklight Theatre, It’s the Economy, Stupid! is a bold new play from the Fringe First winning creators of Labels and Fanboy.

Last year it premiered with a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, before embarking on a national tour, which continues in 2025, before a transferring to London’s Soho Theatre. Tickets go fast for this one so be sure to book soon!

 

Reviews

 

‘IT MIGHT JUST BE WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW…’

The Times

‘AN EFFECTIVE DOUBLE ACT…BOTH BRING INTELLIGENCE AND CHARISMA’

Arifa Akbar, The Guardian

‘very funny, poignant, expertly delivered…catch it while you can!’

★★★★ Broadway Baby

‘THIS SHOW ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE’★★★★ Playbill

‘BRILLIANT AND PASSIONATE’

★★★★★ City Girl Network

‘EXTRAORDINARY’

★★★★★ Adventures In Theatreland

‘PERSONAL, POLISHED AND PROVOCATIVE’

★★★★ The Scotsman on LABELS

‘BRIMMING WITH ENERGY’

★★★★ The Stage on MONSTER

‘A FASCINATING PIECE…FULL OF SURPRISES’★★★★★ Broadway Baby on FANBOY

 

Taylor Vs Sabrina

5:30pm
 
Two pop queens. One unforgettable night!

Get ready for a night of pure pop magic! This dazzling tribute show celebrates two of the biggest icons – Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter – in an electrifying head-to-head performance. Expect glittering costumes, non-stop sing-along hits, and the ultimate feel-good vibes as we bring your favourite anthems to life on stage. Whether you’re a Swiftie, a Sabrina superfan, or just love a great night out, this is the show you won’t want to miss.

Free Workshop: Follow What Feels Good

 

 

Follow What Feels Good

An accessible contemporary movement workshop with Tip Tray Theatre & Studio Fluid.

Join Tip Tray Theatre’s artistic director, and award winning dancer/choreographer Rosie Terry Toogood for a free movement workshop exploring how you can listen to your body to create and enhance your own personal movement style. Open to anyone who is interested in movement or dance.

 

Date: Friday 1st August, 6pm

Location: Shakespeare North Playhouse

Free Tickets: Book here

Access: If you have any access requirements for the session, please contact maisy@tiptraytheatre.com

 

 

Limbs of the Lunar Disc: Break the Clocks

 

Please join LAAF for this special performative-lecture by worldbuilding artist Sarah Al-Sarraj.

This special ‘performance lecture’ will imagine that we are in a spaceship hurtling through time, and will explore non-Western conceptions of space and time, incorporating quantum physics, liberation theory, and the work of Black Quantum Futurism and scholar Jackie Wang.

This event is part of “Limbs of the Lunar Disc”, a project funded by the Arts Council England Project Grants, with curatorial support from Jessica El Mal of The Arab British Centre.

Sarah Al-Sarraj is a visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice centres on worldbuilding as a creative and critical process, where painting and immersive technologies are understood as portals to other worlds.

This event will take place in the Theatre Room.

 

 

Venue:

 

 

World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EN

 

Fakebook

A bold and biting new comedy with Great Music that explores truth, lies, and the masks we wear online.

When real lives collide with digital personas, reality starts to blur. Packed with wit, Music, sharp observations, and plenty of surprises, Fakebook holds a mirror to our modern age of filters, feeds, and fakes.Written by Peter Farrell, Directed by Mark Holland with Technical Direction by Phil Halfpenny presented by Going Nowhere Productions.

Sauce and Sorcery

Abrakebabra is just a normal chippy in the Swan. Chips, fish, scallops and donner meat all served up with a smile. Well, sometimes served up with a smile. 

What’s less normal are the people behind the counter. You see Finn and his grandad Grant have a little sideline in spells and hexes to go with your meat pie. Grant’s a wizard, you see. Yeah, a proper wizard, but he’s more Dumbledork than Dumbledore. 

After receiving a warning for using magic in a built-up area, Grant is supposed to be keeping his head down. But after a tiny transmogrification mistake concerning the local drug dealing entrepreneur he’s in danger of losing his head entirely. He was only trying to help. 

Get yourself to the Royal Court Studio to see Paddy Clarke’s brand new comedy that sees what happens when the worlds of wizardry and fast food collide. 

Winner winner wiccan dinner!

Scratch Night

The acclaimed series of work in progress nights at Unity continues into 2025 by popular demand with monthly instalments of never before seen work.

Over the last year Unity has established itself as the go to venue for fresh, and innovative new work with a sell out series of work in progress evenings and unmissable variety nights.

Get your tickets now to avoid dissapointment.

The Line Up 

Flinger by Steve Wallis

I’m a Liverpool performer and dog-walker who came to a clown workshop at the Unity last year. I left the workshop with 5 minutes of material and am now trying to pad that out  grow that to 10 minutes. During the workshop it emerged, that I was mainly trying to find out whether I could make a dog-ball-flinger look a bit like a flamingo. You be the judge!

Feed The Scousers by Jakob Taylor

‘Feed The Scousers is a playful postulation on Scouseness as both a cultural identity and way of being. Come with me, as I attempt to stage and represent a true celebration of the city of Liverpool and its inhabitants, Scousers. Exploring such through my own lived experience and historicity’

Jakob is a theatre maker and dramaturg from Liverpool. Following the conclusion of his master’s studies in London he is hoping to build upon the foundation of his academic studies and develop his creative practice starting with the re-imagining of his final performance piece ‘Feed The Scousers’

Casu Martzu by Simone Tani

A clown’s journey through a world of maggot-infested blue cheese. Featuring Teatro Pomodoro’s Simone Tani and live music by Marco Riola, this duo of Sardinians living in Liverpool brings laughter, tunes, and a taste of their magical Mediterranean island to the Unity Theatre.

The Fanny Diaries by Erin McDaid

Have you ever wondered what your fanny would say if she could talk? Would she be pleased and proud of your antics? Or would she give you a stern talking to? ‘The Fanny Diaries’ is an original comedy, following twenty-four-and-a-half-year-old Camilla’s journey, as she tackles the trials and tribulations of the hell that we call womanhood. If that isn’t enough, dealing with a whirlwind of failed romances and unsatisfactory sexual interactions, as well as facing her upcoming smear test, which leads to unexpected news, could all send her spiralling.

Seafloor by Jake Angerer

A monologue about a young man and a baby pigeon (or – an extract from a work in progress by a very slow writer).

Jake is a part time writer. Some of his work has appeared in the Raven Review, Creepypod and The Last Line. He enjoys writing horror.

Ghost Town

When Darren takes on a dare to sneak into the haunted hospital, he vanishes without a trace. Now, his mates are on a mission to figure out what happened. As they follow spooky clues and things start getting weirder, tensions rise. Is the hospital really haunted? Will they find Darren?

With tourists, buskers and scallies causing chaos – plus a rogue seagull and a Greggs sausage roll thrown into the mix – Ghost Town is spooky, comedy thriller, written and directed by Paislie Reid, in collaboration with the brilliant young voices of 20 Stories High Youth Theatre.

Created as part of the Cities Exchange, a collaboration between 20 Stories High, Beyond Face, Company Three and Zoo Co.

Are you brave enough to uncover the truth? Grab your tickets now… before it’s too late.

Hairy B*stard

Winner of “Best Comedic Performer” and “Best Original show’’ at Liverpool Fringe 2024, Molly Farquhar is making her Edinburgh Fringe debut with her solo show, Hairy B*stard, this summer – but before she heads up north, she’s previewing the show for ONE NIGHT ONLY here at the Studio Beyond! 

Meet Magenta. She’s a 20-something icon, who lives in her pink filled world. She’s confident, creative, and also incredibly hairy – particularly on her face. Today she’s going out on a date- perhaps he’ll be the love of her life!! OR…perhaps he’ll just stare at her moustache. But hey, at least she’ll get a free dinner out of it and a story to tell her therapist (her dog) about. Its time to pop a pill (birth control), wax ya eyebrows and throw on a primarni special dress, because tonight – this hairy bastard is hitting the town.

This is a semi autobiographical play, all centered around the writers struggle with Hirsutism and PCOS. With lots of interactive and comedic moments, this one woman show will leave the audience questioning what it truly means to be ‘normal’.

This Play is heading to Edinburgh Fringe this summer, and Molly is the recipient of Ed Fringe’s ”Keep it Fringe Fund” 2025.

Art of Andalucia FLAMENCO

 

 

Following the success of his first two productions, which have captivated over 100,000 audience members across the UK, Ireland, and Germany in the last two years, Daniel Martinez returns with a new show focused entirely on flamenco dance. “ART OF ANDALUCIA” offers an immersive experience where the dancers take centre stage, bringing the passion and energy of Andalucia to life. Daniel will also perform new pieces from his highly anticipated third album.The production features world-renowned dancer Angel Reyes, known for his work with Manuel Linan and Jesus Carmona. Angel’s fiery passion and flawless technique promise to captivate and electrify the audience.Gabriela Pouso, the principal dancer of the Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company, also takes the stage. Her performances are a powerful mix of elegance, skill, and intensity, drawing audiences in with every movement.The dancers will perform to original compositions by Daniel Martinez, created specifically for this show. Accompanied by incredible vocals from Inma Montero and Danielo Olivera, and the rhythmic pulse of percussionist Julian Ticotico, they create an unforgettable flamenco experience.”ART OF ANDALUCIA” is a vibrant journey into the heart of Andalucia, where tradition and passion come alive through stunning choreography.