Event type: Performance

Sam Avery: How Not To Be A Terrible Pa...

How Not To Be A Terrible Parent (A comedy show for mums and dads.)

You’re a good parent, right?

You love your kids. They’re everything to you.

You make them eat vegetables and avoid petty crime. You read bedtime stories and don’t let them play with chainsaws.

So why the nagging feeling that you could do better?

In a world filled with bad advice, empty mantras and online ‘experts’, how do we celebrate the small victories of parenthood and stop ourselves from feeling truly terrible?

How Not To Be a Terrible Parent* is the hilarious new stand-up show from award-winning comedian and best-selling author Sam Avery. A show for anyone who’s ever:

● Stolen chocolate from a minor
● Wished their kid had a mute button
● Treated a trip to the toilet as a mini spa weekend
*Tena Lady not included

samaverycomedy.com

Lucy Beaumont: The Trouble and Strife

It’s time for the wife to tour now…

Award-winning stand up comedian BEFORE she met Jon Richardson, Lucy Beaumont is going to let loose and let slip on her roller coaster world.

Life through the Beaumont lens is more surreal than you could ever imagine.

lucybeaumont.co.uk

Babatunde Aléshé: Babahood

Babatunde is one of the fastest rising stars in British Comedy. A powerhouse performer, his stand up presents a hilariously fresh perspective, oozing charisma whilst showcasing impeccable stagecraft and cominc timing.

A firm TV favourite, the hugely popular award winning comedian, actor and podcaster has appeared in shows including Guessable (Comedy Central), House of Games (BBC), Sorry I Didn’t Know (ITV), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2), Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains (Comedy Central), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave) as well as a cast regular in the BAFTA nominated Celebrity Gogglebox (C4).

www.babatundealeshe.com

Late at Tate Liverpool: Eurovision for...

Join Tate Liverpool after hours in celebration of Liverpool’s hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on behalf of Ukraine.

Enjoy an evening of free music, film and artist talks, inspired by the work of Ukrainian artists and culture.

Barely Visible by Rowena Gander

An acclaimed performance artist from Liverpool is bringing her powerful show to venues across the country, shining the spotlight on issues that queer woman face on a daily basis.

Barely Visible by Rowena Gander is an empowering physical solo performance that explores “sexualisation, (fe)male gaze and what it really feels like to live in the shadows”.

With incredible strength, a 100-kilo vertical pole, and a lot of humour, this powerful solo performance covers identity, objectification and what it is to be a gay, ‘barely visible’ woman in a raw and physical journey of empowerment.

The show incorporates elements of physical theatre, pole and contemporary dance, with Rowena, and acclaimed physical theatre director, Elinor Randle, bringing playfulness, authenticity, and boldness to a mesmerising work.

Rowena has developed a reputation over the past seven years as a performer who creates work that is accessible, powerful, empowering to audiences, and thought provoking.

“Gander is an incredible physical theatre performer” – Number 9
“Am impressive physical performance… brutal.. yet hilarious” – Writebase

The tour will also feature pre and post-show conversations with audiences as well as movement workshops on sexuality.

2023 Dates:

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ORMSKIRK – The Arts Centre – 9th Feb 2023
LANCASTER – The Dukes – 16th Feb 2023
BLACKPOOL – The Old Electric – 24th Feb 2023
LIVERPOOL – Unity Theatre – 6th Apr 2023

Who’s Afraid of M!key Garland?

Who’s Afraid of M!key Garland? is an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant funded one-person show that contextualises the rappers debut rap album of the same name.

Who’s Afraid of M!key Garland? was released in June 2022, and explores Garland’s  experience of homelessness in the early 2010s, and tackles themes of poverty, addiction, and mental health.

The Liverpool-based rapper submitted the tracks in the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest to enormous success. All 11 songs ranked highly in the competition with commendation and praise, and four songs, No Fools in Liverpool, Where Will Your Money Be?, Daydream, and The M.M. Effect (Crown of Thorns) reached the Semi-Finals. The album was subsequently long-listed for an International Songwriting Award.

“This show is not about victimhood, or garnering sympathy for me. This show highlights an ongoing humanitarian crisis within our own shores, that must be urgently addressed if we are to save lives. It informs the public what actually happens within so-called “shelters”, and how domestic policy and austerity exacerbate the issues.”

“Who’s Afraid of M!key Garland?” comes to Hope Street Theatre on 9th, 10th, and 11th February at 7.30pm. Get your tickets HERE

Magical Bones: Soulful Magic

Following sell out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and across the UK, the Britain’s Got Talent finalist takes to the road with a brand-new show full of the most awe-inspiring and high energy magic you’ll see this year.

Direct from appearances on America’s Penn & Teller Fool Us, BBC1’s BAFTA Awards, ITV1’s This Morning and Sky’s Around The World In 80 Tricks.

Danny Beard LIVE

“High fashion, hilarious and hairy! What’s not to love?” – Graham Norton

The winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is hitting the road with their debut solo tour! Join Danny as they take to stage with a show which promises to be bigger, better, and more CAMP than ever before.

Early booking highly advised – a limited number of meet & greet tickets are available to purchase alongside your tickets.

The One Like Judi Love

Bringing her fresh, unapologetic and charismatic real talk to theatres across the country, The One like Judi Love comes to the Playhouse in March 2023.

Expect unrelenting and hilarious anecdotes from Judi’s life on her first official tour!

Regular panellist on Loose Women and as seen on Taskmaster, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Graham Norton Show, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Royal Variety Performance.

Ashley Holmes: Decaying Tail of a Soun...

Decaying Tail of a Sound is a live event by artist, Ashley Holmes as an outcome of his Jerwood Arts / FACT Fellowship.

Centred on musical, theoretical and geographical explorations, Ashley will premiere a live version of a new sound composition developed from field recordings, conversations and materials gathered during his time spent in Liverpool.

The event title makes reference to a section of ‘Echo’, a chapter by Julian Henriques and Hillegonda Rietveld from The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies – a volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture.

Ashley’s interests focus on the sonic processes, iterations and influences of Dub, the sub-genre of reggae music, to examine Black music as a methodology to understand and re-define links between past and present within broader social contexts.