Event type: Performance

Revival showcases Black/minoritorised women; sharing their stories: overcoming challenges, campaigning for change, breathing new life into themselves and their communities.

The project will empower women, supporting them to see themselves as survivors and change makers via community workshops, whilst developing their writing skills.

The project will culminate with a performance at Unity to an audience of family, friends and community leaders; this will take place in Black History Month and will be part of Liverpool’s calendar of events celebrating and honouring the contributions of Black and Minoritorised women across the city, engaging participants in the communal act of Revival.

Part of Up Next 2023 – a two-week festival celebrating Merseyside artists

Step into the sequinned world of Buki, a third of Sass – a Coventry-born RnB girl group on the brink of breakup.

This theatre piece is an experimental one-person play, performed and created by the writer.

With body glitter, a tight weave and a dream, Buki is exploring queerness as a Black and North African person, the trials of friendship and the grip of coercive control.

Brace yourself for an electrifying performance that will leave you laughing and crying, but also will hopefully provoke conversations on what it means to be a person caught between religion, family and identity.

A Homotopia supported Queercore Artist.

Part of Up Next 2023 – a two-week festival celebrating Merseyside artists

A mother and daughter who cannot be in the same room, meet in a breast cancer clinic after five years of estrangement and are forced to confront their own and each other’s mortality.

A darkly comic look at the mother/daughter relationship and what happens when it’s between two people who destroy each other. Because when a woman’s brought you in to this world, are you ever allowed to cut and run?

A work-in-progress performance of a new play by BBC Slam Champion, Jess Green (Burning Books, A Self Help Guide To Being In Love With Jeremy Corbyn).

Berber Boy is a subversive new autobiographical theatre show; part coming-of-age story, part culture-fuck, and a very Irish discussion about Tunisian identity – and if that confuses the hell out of you, you’ve got the idea…

This performance will feature a 30 minute long Post-Show Q&A with the creator of the piece entitled ‘Identity politics and creative handcuffs’.

Moncef sits outside a Dublin meeting room. He’s auditioning for the role of a lifetime: disgraced Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Moncef’s passport has the name Peter on it.

Ben Ali wants to give him acting advice.

A leprechaun has been summoned.

Salt crystals and watermelon pips gather at the edges of this high strangeness.

Strictly Come Dancing legend and judge, Anton Du Beke, returns to the Liverpool Philharmonic stage with his live band, a guest singer and his dancers.

Anton will be performing some of his favourite songs and dances that have inspired his career throughout his life. Expect behind the scenes stories from his time on Strictly Come Dancing that will have you laughing out loud in this fab-u-lous evening of song, dance and laughter!

Joining the ever so fab-u-lous Anton Du Beke on his tour as special guest singer is Lance Ellington – one of the UK’s most popular male vocalists.

Lance frequently appears on Strictly Come Dancing as one of the main singers and has also worked with many of the world’s top recording artists, including Sting, Michael Jackson and Tina Turner. He is also a regular performer at Ronnie Scott’s – one of the most famous Jazz clubs in the world.

Starring the original cast members Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Neil Pearson, Jeff Rawle, Stephen Tompkinson and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and EMMY award-winning comedy is reimagined in this brand-new topical commentary on the cutthroat world of 24 hours news.

Bursting with razor-sharp wit and classic British humour, this hot off the press production will leave you in stitches. Written by the same award-winning writing team Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered), Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! exposes the underside of the broadcasting industry in all its riotous glory. Whether you’re one of the legions of die-hard fans of the TV sitcom that was watched by millions at its peak, or a British comedy fanatic, come and experience this hilarious revival of an all-time comedy classic.