The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style. The Royal Court Liverpool Trust is part way through an £11m scheme to renovate the building.
The theatre is one of Liverpool’s most enduring and iconic buildings, and has a rich history including several ghosts!
Tours will last around two hours and will be led by an experienced guide. The cost of the tickets for the tours will go towards the restoration of the building. Tickets must be booked in advance as the tours will not take place unless a minimum of 10 people are booked in. You can book online below or call 0151 709 4321.
So many stories. So many questions. One night of answers.
Have you ever harboured a question so deep, so complex, that standard logic fails to answer it? Bring it to The Oracle.
An immersive, improvisational theatre phenomenon performed worldwide, The Oracle blends the ancient ritual of Delphi with long-form improv. Together, we explore, both comedically and dramatically, the wildest questions about life and living in today’s world.
The night begins with you. Submit your deepest question you want answers to. Once the Priest chooses a query worthy of the Gods, the Delphi, a collective of trance-talking improvisers will plunge into the ether. Through a mesmerising tapestry of spontaneous story, poetry, monologues, and haunting scene work, they will weave the patterns of human experience right before your eyes.
Feel the tension build. Wait for the breathless moment when the trance shatters, the metaphor is revealed, and the truth is delivered.
“The thing about being exceptional Sabrin, you have to believe everybody else isn’t.”
At a Birmingham grammar school bursting with overachievers, political meltdowns, and teenage delusion, best friends Sabrin and Ruqqiyah are free-falling to their futures.
Sabrin secretly prepares for a life-changing music audition, while Ruqqiyah orchestrates a symphony of her own- conducting the fall of a problematic teacher. Between Paramore, panic attacks, and increasingly chaotic schemes, the girls’ clashing priorities reach a crescendo that unveils a growingly strained bond.
Quick-witted and deeply heartfelt, Off-Key is a coming-of-age drama about Black girlhood, ambition, friendship and what happens when the person who knows you best, becomes someone you no longer recognise.
Side eYe is the award-winning collective behind Dugsi Dayz (2022) and Desperate Times (2023). Recipient of the Edinburgh Untapped Award (2023) and the BBC Popcorn Award for Dugsi Dayz, Side eYe stages stories by black Muslim women and their allies.
This tour is supported by Kayd Somali Arts and Culture.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, 2:2
Two older actors, former lovers, meet again after fifty years. She is living with memory loss; he carries the memories she struggles to hold. They have unfinished business and matters of the heart to resolve, life and death decisions to be made, raw emotions to be laid bare.
When a lost 1960s TV version of Romeo and Juliet flickers back to life on the walls around them, starring the couple in their youth, their bittersweet past becomes inescapable. Live performance and film merge in a moving exploration of love, memory, and the stories we cling to as everything else fades.
Remember Romeo is an ode to the shattering experience of first love, and of last love. Shakespeare’s classic is a story held in all of our hearts, tenderly revisited by ‘multimedia daredevils’ (The Times) imitating the dog.
An imitating the dog and The Dukes co-production
Supported by Lancaster Arts
Inspired by the life of Paul O’Grady and created with his blessing, SAVAGE is a bold and deeply moving new play, making its world premiere in 2027 at Curve Leicester, prior to London’s West End.
Before the spotlight, there was a working-class boy from Birkenhead with a sharp tongue, thick skin and something to say.
Written by multi-award-winning Jonathan Harvey (Our Lady of Blundellsands, Canary, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street, Beautiful Thing), the show follows Paul’s journey from the streets of Merseyside to the heart of London’s club scene, where, armed with little more than his wits and a wig, he began carving out a place for himself.
From humble roots and an unassuming start emerged Lily Savage: the fearless, foul-mouthed alter ego who would defy convention and win the hearts of millions.
Starring RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard in the title role, and directed by Nikolai Foster (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), SAVAGE combines razor-sharp wit, unexpected tenderness, and plenty of peroxide, in an intimate portrait of a singular talent and the world that made him.
Funny, raw, and full of heart, this is the story of how Paul became Lily and how Lily became a British icon.
This is about the bad stuff. This is an emergency. This is a clowning show.
Multi-award-winners Ugly Bucket present a blazing inferno of physicality, electronica, and uncompromising personal testimony from the frontlines of the UK’s food banks. As phones ring, guts spill, and sparks ignite faster than they can be extinguished, five clowns search for hope and community in the face of helplessness. Created in association with Liverpool’s Unity Theatre, STUFFED is a roaring call to action amidst the wreckage of a desecrated system.
More than a show, STUFFED is an invitation to gather – an evening of food, electrifying theatre, and empowering discussion illuminating the dark corners and exploring the power of collective action. All performances are captioned and accompanied by a free community meal and local food donation drive.
‘As enraging as it is brilliant. A tour-de-force performance that deserves the nation’s attention.’ ★★★★★ (Opening Nights)
‘You could hear a pin drop in the furthest corner of the room.’ ★★★★★ (North West End)
Performances of STUFFED are accompanied with a free pre show meal & post show panel. Arrive an hour prior to performance time for the meal.
Food Donations
We also invite audiences with the capacity to bring a food donation to STUFFED.
Performed by regulars at The Reader –Illyria in the great outdoors, follow Young D’Artagnan who is desperate to join Athos,Porthos and Aramis as an elite Musketeer of the King’s Guard. But are his swashbuckling credentials sufficient? Find out as the fearless four survive the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and cross swords with the deadly Milady de Winter.
Illyria’s mission is simple.to create outstandingly enjoyable theatre and make it available for everyone. Illyria has been pursuing this mission for over thirty years, performed for more than a million people, and intend to entertain families across the country for many seasons to come.
We strive to make all our spaces and events as accessible as possible to all, please see our accessibility page to help you plan your visit.
The HandleBards return to the Mansion House Garden for a hilariously high-octane production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ like you’ve never seen before. Forget the tears and tragedy, our Macbeth is chock full of mishaps, mayhem and mirth.
We all know the story. Mysterious spirits appear,Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to kill the king, and things get rapidly out of hand from there…
The HandleBards are anintrepid three-strong troupes pending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK.
We strive to make all our spaces and events as accessible as possible, please see our accessibility page to help you plan your visit.
A chance to spend a few days exploring drama at the Unity, meet new friends, enjoy games, creating characters, puppetry and more with brilliant practitioners. All abilities welcome.
AGES: 9-12 YEAR OLDS
WHEN: 27 & 28TH JULY | 10.30 -4pm
WHERE: Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, L1 9BG
Please purchase your ticket and fill out our application form to sign up!
Apply here
Snow is falling… and Jack Frost is calling! When the wicked Jack Frost sweeps into the kingdom and casts a spell of eternal winter, fountains freeze, forests frost over and the Royal Palace is plunged into chaos! With his icy powers growing stronger by the minute, he’s determined to keep the kingdom frozen forever… But brave Princess Honour won’t let that happen! Teaming up with the hilarious and hopelessly silly, Silly Snowy, she sets off on a magical mission to stop Jack Frost and help her sister, Queen Ellie, learn to control her extraordinary ice powers before it’s too late. Packed with dazzling costumes, spectacular scenery, toe-tapping tunes, laugh-out-loud comedy and plenty of boos for the baddie, FREEZIN’ is the ultimate October half-term treat for the whole family! Will love melt the ice? Will good defeat frost? There’s only one way to find out… Don’t miss the coolest show in town!
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