Weaving together the many lives affected by these events across the globe, Giles Terera’s boldly inventive debut play The Meaning of Zong is a timely response to the social upheaval the world has witnessed in recent years.
Performed by an ensemble cast and punctuated with stirring music, it celebrates the power of individual action to drive huge societal change.
Two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano changed the world. Reading reports of a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong, where 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, he joins forces with anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp to publicly condemn these abhorrent actions, setting in motion events which would go on to galvanise the abolition movement in the UK.
But Olaudah’s impassioned fight for justice goes beyond the courtroom. Having bought his own freedom, he now faces a personal battle to rediscover his past and accept his true self.
It takes a second to become a father, it takes a lifetime to become a Dad.
Lifelong friends share their experiences and struggles in becoming and being fathers. After a surprise camping trip of a lifetime there are high emotions delivered with tongue and cheek, that will leave you windswept. Dealing with sensitive subject matters such as IVF, adoption, love and loss.
This unique story of a group of Black Fathers on a journey of self-discovery, celebrates culture, fatherhood and friendship.
The event is held in the Playhouse Studio.
Back with their biggest comedy catastrophe to date, multi award-winning Mischief (The Play That Goes Wrong, BBC One’s The Goes Wrong Show) return to the stage with their hilarious new show created with magic legends, Penn & Teller.
A hapless gang of magicians are staging an evening of grand illusion to raise cash for charity. But as the magic turns to mayhem, accidents spiral out of control and so does their fundraising target!
Raising the bar with their dare-devil stunts, jaw-dropping feats and irresistible comedy genius, Mischief’s Magic Goes Wrong heads to Chester direct from the West End. Book your tickets now, before they vanish out of sight (or sellout!).
Penn & Teller are co-creators of the show and won’t be appearing on stage.
On the eve of St Valentine’s Day, The Epstein Theatre plays host to a moving real-life story, a tale of love and loss, and the grief that follows.
Using the words of the late activist and poet Sandra Richardson, who passed away at Marie Curie Hospice in Liverpool last year, and the reflections of her artist wife Clare Beloved, the play weaves a testimony to the power of love and grief.
A Very Liverpool Love Story comes to The Epstein Theatre on Sunday 13 February 2022 at 7.30pm. Tickets are on sale now, with proceeds being donated to Marie Curie Hospice in Liverpool.
The play is staged on Sandra’s 58th Birthday, and is a message of enduring love and hope while celebrating the power of creativity and community to help others through grief.
Six months on from Sandra’s death, Clare has gathered unpublished words, poems and love notes written by Sandra while in the hospice, along with her own writing and diary entries from that time, and crafted them into a powerful performance piece.
The play will include a mix of imagery, poetry and live music, providing theatregoers a gentle way in which to remember anyone close to them who may have passed away.
The second half of the evening will be hosted by Liverpool-born performance poet Gerry Potter, and will include an opportunity for the audience to write special Valentine’s cards to loved ones who have died and post into a Marie Curie postbox and light a candle. There will also be Birthday cake to celebrate Sandra’s life. The Marie Curie team will be on stage sharing their own creative reflections on love and loss, and members of the charity’s wellbeing team will be available to offer support.
A Crosby Pizza delivery man has come up with his very own bitter-sweet topping. With the help of Make it Write productions, Bernie Winston is serving up a black comedy in The Casa Theatre Bar.
Bernie’s play, “Stand Up”, offers us Mark, a comic whose on stage banter hides his personal misery. Off stage when the laughter has died away Mark, played by Trevor Fleming, struggles with gambling debts and the spectre of loan sharks.
“Stand Up” is the work of Bernie Winston, a Pizza delivery man, who has been writing for most of his life. Now this, his first play, is being performed at The Casa Bar, Hope Street, Liverpool on April 29 and 30.
Bernie says: “It’s thanks to meeting Sharon Colpman of Make it Write Productions. It really was a life-changing event. With Sharon’s advice and by attending the group’s courses and workshops I soon found myself up and running.”
Lisa Worth plays Mark’s ex-wife Marie, Dan Pendleton is Fraser her new lover and Jackie Gorst plays Toni a shadowy gangster.
It is being directed by Kevin Foott and produced by Ted Gray and Jamie Gaskin.
Tickets can be bought online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liverpool/the-casa-theatre-bar/stand-up-the-play/e-omaeko
Actor and comedian, Ricky Tomlinson is to return to the stage in a new musical comedy that celebrates the best of Irish culture.
Irish Annie’s will perform around the St Patricks Day celebrations at Epstein Theatre on Saturday 19th March. Tickets are on sale and selling fast!
Irish Annie’s is a celebration of Irish culture, from the music to the comedy, featuring the well-known live 6-piece band The Shenanigans.
Meet landlady Annie and her regular madcap customers for a fun night out of comedy, music and mayhem, featuring original tracks written for the show by Asa Murphy, along with your all-time favourite Irish tunes including Galway Shawl, Tell Me Ma, Dirty Old Town, Whiskey In The Jar, Danny Boy and many more. The evening promises to have the audience laughing, singing, and dancing the night away.
Ricky Tomlinson will join the cast starring as Scouse Pete. Ricky is a much-loved actor and comedian living all his life in Liverpool, he is best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and Jim Royle in The Royle Family, he also played the title character in the film Mike Bassett: England Manager. He is a very keen musician playing both the banjo and harmonica.
Have you always wanted to go to a Ted Talk about ADHD that veers off into the wacky world of musicals and Neuroscience? Dora has.
Dora is hilarious, sensitive and indecisive. Join her on an adventure as she seeks to understand why she was asked to leave a job interview at Lush because she was drunk.
Audiences are left feeling moved, crying with laughter and will take a step closer to radical self-acceptance. As Dora asks; What the funk is normal anyway?
This performance includes sign language and elements of audio description.
There will be a Q&A after the show.
The international smash hit musical Six is coming to Chester!
Multi award-winning, with a spectacular soundtrack storming charts across the globe, this sell-out Tudor take-off has ‘an incredibly strong and powerful message. Boundary-pushing, genre-redefining’ (The Australian) and is ‘pure entertainment’ (The New York Times).
Showtimes vary, with additional performances at 6pm and 8.30pm, see here for full listings.
From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.
Think you know the rhyme, think again…
Divorced. Beheaded. LIVE!
Liverpool’s North Docks will play host to a brand new immersive, satirical theatre production inspired by the peep shows of Amsterdam this February.
The event is held 10-13 February and 17-20 February, 8pm, with additional shows at 5.30pm each day. See here for tickets.
Following sell out performances at the Unity Theatre of Sirens, Men and Crabs, Liverpool’s international theatre company Teatro Pomodoro have today unveiled the world premiere of Peep Show: Battle Royale.
This brand new, off the wall production will utilise the group’s trademark blend of clowning, bouffon music and comedy in a darkly comedic, interactive theatrical experience, where the audience will sit behind windows, looking in on a ‘twisted new world’.
The show itself will take the form of a fictional, reality TV game show, where the contestants’ fates lie with the live audience, whose votes can influence the outcome of the game.
This verbatim performance shares the testimonies of children who have had a parent sent to prison.
It examines a child’s world when they are plunged into a new reality of prison visits, social workers, timed telephone calls, judgements, loss of contact and questions, lots of questions.
Co-Created by All Things Considered Theatre, Time Matters UK and The Unity Theatre.
