This beautiful production from the producer and director of The award-winning Eva Cassidy Story is an expose of the life Doris Day.
Though her on screen persona was full of romance and Secret love, the real story was much more dramatic, with video projection a swinging jazz band and impeccable vocals the Doris Day Story is a compelling musical journey through her life incorporating some of greatest songs love me or leave me, perhaps, perhaps, pillow talk, Black hills of Dakota, and move over darling, to name a few.
This production charts her life as a Jazz-singer to an idol of the silver screen, and beyond a show not to be missed so come on and take a Sentimental Journey down memory lane IT’S MAGIC !!
This Easter trail leads families through the city centre to follow Harry the Hare. In celebration of acclaimed Wirral based sculptor Emma Rodgers, whose work is currently exhibited at Bluecoat Display Centre in their Window on College Lane.
Entry to the gallery is free and Emma’s ceramic hares will be on selling display throughout the Easter Trail.
The Harry the Hare Easter Trail encourages families to follow themed artwork from the Display Centre on College Lane to Key Lime Coffee on Lime Street.
Each venue along the way will be adorned with specially commissioned artwork depicting the hare, with Easter Eggs to pick up on the trail. After following the trail, families can enter a competition to win a bespoke Harry the Hare chocolate bunny created by Emma herself & Wirral based chocolatier The Chocolate Cellar.
Organised by Liverpool BID Company in partnership with Bluecoat Display Centre, the trail begins on Friday 22 March and runs until Friday 5th April.
The locations on the trail are;
1. Bluecoat Display Centre
2. Cass Art
3. Castle Fine Art
4. LUSH
5. Royal Court Theatre
6. Key Lime Coffee St Johns
Download the map here.
To enter their prize draw for either one of six eggstra special chocolate Harry the Hare’s or a first prize gift voucher worth £30 to spend at the Bluecoat Display Centre… grab a selfie with Harry the Hare outside their window and share with them on Instagram via @bluecoatdisplaycentre and @liverpoolbidcompany using #Harrythehare
Emma has always been inspired by nature, especially the dynamic movements of hares and rabbits. Her ceramic rabbit was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and won the Contemporary prize 1996. She has continued to regularly feature hares in her work and her understanding of the shape of animals and how they move comes from her close observations. Emma has kept rabbits and even fostered a hare alongside a sheep and a fox.
Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s classic thriller returns after a record-breaking, sell-out tour in 2022.
JB Priestley‘s brilliantly constructed masterpiece powerfully dramatises the dangers of casual capitalism’s cruelty, complacency and hypocrisy. Stephen Daldry‘s epic production highlights the play’s enduring relevance.
Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful family dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman. His startling revelations shake the very foundations of their lives and challenge us all to examine our consciences. More relevant now than ever, this is a must-see for a whole new generation.
Step back in time over two hundred years and meet Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters as they navigate the mire of manners of regency society.
With stunning period costume, timeless wit, and a romantic original score, Chapterhouse’s Pride and Prejudice is a faithful telling of Austen’s greatest work.
Join family and friends for an evening of magical theatre as we bring the world’s favourite love story to gardens and grounds across the country.
Zog, super keen student turned air-ambulance, still lands with a bang-crash-thump.
Together with his Flying Doctor crew, Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout, they tend to a sunburnt mermaid, a unicorn with one too many horns and a lion with the flu. However, Pearl’s uncle, the King, has other ideas about whether princesses should be doctors, and she’s soon locked up in the castle back in a crown and a silly frilly dress!
With a bit of help from some friends and half a pound of cheese, can Pearl make her uncle better and prove princesses can be doctors too?
Based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling sequel, Freckle Productions (Zog, Stick Man, Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales) are back, with music and lyrics by Joe Stilgoe (Zog), for this truly modern take on the classic fairy tale.
Most suitable for ages 3+ but all ages welcome!
Additional early day show, 10 July, 10.30am.
What music got you through the pandemic? Join Metal for a conversation with Dr Joy White about culture during COVID at our Future Station talk at 6pm on Tuesday 2 April.
Joy will draw on her latest book ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened’ to consider the ways in which contemporary Black musical forms helped us to pass the time during the early days of lockdown, operating as a site of connection, identity and social commentary.
Dr Joy White is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire and the author of ‘Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City’. Her previous work includes ‘Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise’, one of the first books to foreground the socio-economic significance of grime music. Recent publications include ‘Growing up under the influence: A sonic genealogy of Grime’, and (with Jonathan Ilan) ‘Ethnographer Soundclash: A UK rap and grime story’. Joy has also written for The Quietus, The Conversation, Trench, Google Arts + Culture, Red Pepper and Prospect.
This talk is in partnership with experimental fiction publisher and shop Dead Ink Books and radical writing publisher Repeater Books.
After the talk, there will be a short Q+A with Joy, and a complimentary vegan meal served. As places are limited, we are asking for a deposit of £5 which will be refunded when you attend. Walk-ups are welcome, subject to availability.
How to get to Metal
By train: You can get off at Edge Hill on Northern trains. It’s 4 minutes from Liverpool Lime Street.
By bus: You can take the number 27 bus from the city centre and get off at Edge Hill Station. Our entrance is just a 3-minute walk along Tunnel Road.
By bike: You can store your bike inside our building.
Our access
The event is located on the ground floor of the building on platform 1. There is step-free access from the top of Tunnel Road, down the station approach, and via the Accumulator Tower. Step-free access is available for ground floor spaces, including a kitchen and a gender-neutral, disabled toilet. If you have any questions about access, please get in touch.
Sister Petra and Sister Brenda have grown up in St Elmo’s Convent in Dingle as identical twins but Monsignor Michael has some shocking news for them. They are not twins at all! If you look closely you can tell because they look completely different.
The Sisters decide to change the habit of a lifetime and escape from the convent to discover what happened to their real families. When they get out into 1980s Liverpool they find themselves locked into a battle with a wicked gangster, trapped in an improbable heist and trying to pinch a nudey statue to fill a gaping hole in the Monsignor’s apse.
Writer Jonathan Harvey (A Thong For Europe) is back with another riotous comedy featuring some classic 1980s bangers. It’s got everything that you need for a great show: a set of twins, loads of great music, another set of twins, some nuns, another set of twins, a madcap heist, another set of twins (possibly. I’ve lost count)…
So squeeze into your best wimple and get down to the Court for a brand new comedy that is second to nun!
It’s magic, to make something out of nothing. Science can reveal how the brain does this amazing trick! In this talk, Dr Pinar Oztop shows you what we know about the neuroscience of creativity.
It is the process that sees something arrive in the brain and be transformed into a work of art, a wonder of the world or even into a thought about whether we need more milk. You will learn about the brain processes that create new ideas and power our imagination, including our fantasies. Exploring these neuronal processes will help us understand creativity and who we really are as humans.
For the hundred billion neurons in each ball of brain that make us human, creativity is something inherent and essential. The brain creates stuff out of the neverlands of our subconscious for a purpose, to help us survive and thrive in the dance of life.
Come on in. Let’s explore some marvellous things.
You will leave knowing…
– What creativity is
– How creativity works in the brain
– Which parts of the brain are involved in creativity
– The different types of creativity
– What we can do to encourage our creativity, based on neuroscience
Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm – come down early to grab a good seat!
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The Vivienne has announced a 2024 headline tour ‘An Evening With The Vivienne’ in association with AEG Presents. The UK’s No.1 drag superstar’s tour will take in cities Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and London in May next year.
The brand-new show will feature comedy, music and audience participation
This is 80s’ Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance.
Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find the jobs, avoid the ‘sniffers’ and see if you can have a laugh along the way.
40 years after Alan Bleasdale’s ground-breaking television series was essential viewing, Liverpool’s Royal Court is delighted to present an unmissable, powerful new adaptation by James Graham, writer of the hit BBC series Sherwood.
Having completely sold out the 2023 run, this is sure to be the hottest ticket of 2024.
