When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child – Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.
Enter a world full of thrilling twists and epic turns, where the ultimate love-letter to horror is imagined live on stage. A fully sensory and electrifying encounter, Ghost Stories is one of London’s best reviewed plays of all time and will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat. This is a theatrical experience like no other.
After exhilarating audiences across the world with record breaking, sell-out productions and a smash hit film, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s Ghost Stories is “Genuine scary fun” (Sunday Times), a worldwide phenomenon more spine-tingling and fantastically terrifying than ever.
Based on the best-selling book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom!
Jump on board the broom with the witch and her cat in Tall Stories’ fun-filled adaptation of Room on the Broom, the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
The witch and her cat are travelling on their broomstick when they pick up some hitch-hikers – a friendly dog, a beautiful green bird and a frantic frog. But this broomstick’s not meant for five and – CRACK – it snaps in two… just as the hungry dragon appears!
Will there ever be room on the broom for everyone? Find out in the magical Olivier Award-nominated show for everyone aged 3 and up.
What does it take for a woman to make it in a man’s world?
Meet Vy, a talented songwriter looking to make it big in the 1940’s Harlem scene. She quickly learns from her uncle Jester that women will never be taken seriously in a man’s world. But, like many a strong hero, she refuses to accept defeat. Through her gender fluid cunning, she meets club owner The Duke and sensational nightclub singer Lady Liv and is swept up in a syncopated symphony of melodies, mistaken identities and romance. Who will come out on top?
Play On! is set in the jazz scene of New York’s Cotton Club. This stylish retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Talawa’s Artistic Director Michael Buffong (A Kind of People, Royal Court; All My Sons, Talawa and Royal Exchange) fuses the thrilling music of Duke Ellington with street dance choreography. Prepare to be wowed by this musical spectacular that will have your toes tapping and hands clapping along with the timeless soundtrack.
There is nothing more than to love and be loved.
Sebastian Faulks’s epic story of love and loss returns to the stage marking the 30th anniversary of the international best-selling novel.
★★★★★
‘Riveting’
Telegraph
The critically acclaimed show returns in a brand-new production for 2024. Telling the story of one man’s journey through an all-consuming love affair and into the horror of the First World War.
In pre-war France, a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down. As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep underground. Faced with the unprecedented horror of the war Stephen clings to the memory of Isabelle as his world explodes around him.
A mesmerising story of love and courage. Set both before and during the Great War.
Once seen never forgotten.
Starring award-winning actor Max Bowden, best known for the role of Ben Mitchell in EastEnders, and produced by the award-winning Original Theatre, who brought you the smash hit productions of The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie, Murder in the Dark and The Habit of Art.
Join the Docklands Trail for a day of FREE activities.
FREE Childrens DRAMA workshops (8-13 years old) at 11am and 2pm with ArtsGroupie CIC–
Email artgroupie@outlook.com to reserve a slot (LIMITED SPACES)
DISCOVER THE HISTORY OF NORTH LIVERPOOL & BOOTLE DOCKS…
…by visiting the exhibition held within customised shipping containers on the dockside.
Discover how the Northern Liverpool and Bootle docks supported Britain’s ongoing industrial revolution. View the docks and surroundings from inside the dock walls accessible to the general public for the first time. See a dedicated section on the history of Bramley Moore Dock and its future with Everton Football Club.
Family memory walks are guided visits in the Museum of Liverpool, which connect people through conversations about Liverpool’s past.
On a memory walk you can explore Liverpool icons like the Overhead Railway, known as the dockers’ umbrella, Blackie the rocking horse, or the Colomendy totem pole. Bring a friend or loved one to share memories with, and create some new ones together.
Each walk is facilitated by a friendly member of our House of Memories team but led by the conversations and stories shared within the group. As a dementia-friendly session these walks will use the displays within the Museum of Liverpool to help you bring memories of Liverpool to life.
Our family memory walks last about one hour and can accommodate up to 20 people. For groups larger than 4 people please email learning@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk to book a private date with their team.
The Museum of Liverpool is fully accessible and we welcome visitors who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids to join their memory walks. Please visit their access page for further information to help prepare for your visit.
Tickets are free and need to be booked in advance. Please let them know if you have booked but can no longer attend so that someone else can have your ticket.
The times of memory walks varies as follows:
- 19 July at 11am
- 30 August at 2pm
- 20 September at 11am
- 18 October at 2pm
- 22 November at 11am
Tutankhamun was born over 3300 years ago into a family at the apex of Ancient Egyptian society. He ruled for no more than a decade, much of that time through regents who governed for the ‘boy king’.
When his short life was over he was buried in an insignificant tomb in the floor of the Valley of the Kings surrounded by his illustrious ancestors and later by the great kings that would follow him.
In 1922 the almost intact tomb of this almost unknown king was rediscovered and he suddenly became a household name, inspiring films, songs, fashions, architecture, comics, and hundreds of books conjecturing over his life and death. But how much do we actually know about this young man who lived and died so very long ago?
In this spotlight day we will be looking at what we can really know about Tutankhamun. Using primary sources and the most up to date research we will explore who he was, how he lived, and how he might have died. We’ll dispel some of the popular myths about Tutankhamun as well as opening up some new questions which have yet to be answered.
The spotlight day will last 11am-4pm with a break for lunch. Tickets cost £25 and we recommend purchasing in advance.
See Harun Farocki’s 61-minute film In Comparison at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North. It showcases the different traditions and methods of brick production across the world, including brick burning, brick carrying and bricklaying. It investigates the colours and sounds of different cultures through their literal building blocks.
Farocki was a pioneering filmmaker and theorist. He made more than 90 films ranging from experimental documentaries to large-scale installations. His work often explores themes of capitalism and technology.
Mystery Theatre Club in collaboration with Anfield People’s Cinema present – Occupy!
Kitty’s Laundrette 77 Grasmere St, Liverpool L5 6RH
Doors and food from 7pm
Film starts at 7:30pm
Pay What You Can
Free Hot Meal! – Discussion after the Screening!
Join the Mystery Theatre Club for a monthly archived screening of unique, world-class theatre shows. Embrace experimental and contemporary works from exciting theatre makers.
This time they are collaborating with Anfield People’s Cinema and will be presenting Occupy! (1976 ) Pete Postlethwaite, Bill Nighy and Julie Walters, make some of their earliest performances on film in the story of a four-year struggle to set up a worker’s cooperative at a Fisher-Bendix factory in Kirkby. GaelDohany’s polemical and formally radical documentary recounts the passage of industrial dispute through a mixture of interviews, news reports and scenes from a play about the occupation performed by the Liverpool Everyman Theatre.
Also intercut are ‘eye-witness’ reports from similar events in Turin in 1919 and Detroit in 1936. With the use of such fictionalised interviews and its intercutting of material, the film has stylistic echoes of the work of Peter Watkins and Jean-Luc Godard, but rather than making broader political commentary Dohany is focused on the intrigue of this localised struggle. Occupy! was funded by the BFI Production Board during a brief period of mid-1970s political radicalism when the Board also funded films by London Women’s Film Group, Cinema Action and the Berwick Street Collective.
