School is a nightmare, boys are infuriating and Maccies is the only place open after 6pm.
Growing up isn’t easy, but it’s even harder when you are from a place where no one expects anything of you – and especially if you’re queer or the new girl at school. Beth, Rachel, Zahidah, Ellie and Chloe are stuck, stuck in their drama group, stuck in school and stuck in their small town which doesn’t even have a Nandos.
Our Town Needs a Nandos is written by Samantha O’Rourke, a YEP writer alumni who wrote the play during her time as YEP writer on attachment.
An unmissable one-woman show by acclaimed playwright Mark Davies Markham is returning to the Liverpool stage this summer after winning rave reviews from audiences and critics alike.
Comedy 2Gorgeous4U – From Ladette To Laundrette will be at the Royal Court Studio from Thursday, 2 June to Saturday, 4 June.
The show, starring Lynne Fitzgerald and directed by James Baker (Cherry Jezebel, Masquerade, Jerry Springer The Opera), was a smash hit when it opened the second Liverpool Theatre Festival last September.
It promises audiences an evening packed with laughter, throw backs to the Nineties and a soundtrack guaranteed to bring back memories of the decade.
Clare is a beautician with her own spa and treatment room in Waterloo. Happily single, she is online just in case. Her one desire in life is a wet room.
But back in the Britpop 1990s, Clare was one half of a pop duo 2Gorgeous4U with her best mate Tina. They were wild – but fell out acrimoniously.
Now they have been asked to reform for a music festival in their hometown of Liverpool. But can they put the past behind them and move on – and what was it all about anyway? All set against a musical soundtrack featuring Queen Latifa, Blur, Gabrielle, K-Klass, and plenty more.
Physical Fest is hosting a series of workshops 4th-9th July in Liverpool. The workshops are in collaboration with the Unity Theatre!
4th – 6th July features ‘Devising’ with John Wright. This is an entirely practical course on devising, or to be more accurate: collaborative writing.
6th July also features Ben Phillips with Chekhov’s Personal Atmospheres. This workshop, focusing on personal atmospheres through body and imagination to strengthen their creative imaginations.
7th July features ‘Ensemble’ with Tmesis Theatre. This workshop will focus on developing a playful, expressive performer.
8th July features ‘The Art of Play’ Teatro Pomodoro. You will work on: complicity, rhythm, musicality and more to increase clowning and playfulness in scenes.
8th- 9th July consists of ‘Effortlessly Funny’ by Jamie Wood. An invitation to let down defences and connect body, voice, imagination and play.
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Check out the full programme and book workshops here:
https://www.tmesistheatre.com/physical-fest/workshops/
Let YEP(Young Everyman Playhouse) transport you to an intoxicating world of live performance, music and reflection in their new show, Save the Night.
The Annexe is calling. There’s a new club in town. With energy rising, friendships are thriving and hips are beginning to shake to the sound of the beat.
Celebrating ten jam-packed years of YEP, and sound-tracked by Arts Bar’s house band Tin Can Voodoo, Save the Night invites you to join an evening of innovative cabaret with YEP’s trademark flair.
The party is just getting started…
Brought to you by social enterprise event management company Strawberry Lemonade Events, BOW showcases the world’s leading adventure films including Running is Not Cancelled and Sebastian and Max’s Grand Canyon Adventure.
This film festival is a culmination of a training course hosted in Liverpool for people aged 19-24 who are looking to gain experience in the events world. Every element has been picked by them from films to sequencing.
The full festival line up is:
Running is not Cancelled, Peak of Possibility, Our Connection to the Blue Mountains, Dawn til Dusk, Sebastian and Max’s Grand Canyon Adventure, Dear Pippa, New Story Run, Run Around the World ep11, Twentyone Twelve and Totally FKT.
Join FACT for a special tour of their new exhibition, Let the Song Hold Us. Their team will be talking about the inspiration behind the exhibition and its themes of music, family and collective histories.
Take a closer look at each of the immersive artworks and uncover the research behind them, the technology used to create them and the journey they have taken from commission to presentation.
The tour will last approximately 45-60 minutes.
Sat 14 May: Led by Lesley Taker, Exhibitions Manager at FACT
Sat 11 June: Led by Charlotte Horn, Senior Producer at FACT
Take a look at some of the toys we have loved and played with through the generations.
The workshops are held Museum of Liverpool, 11am-12noon and 1.30-4pm.
The museum has handling collections which link to their main collections but you can actually touch them, which is great for learning and finding out more! They have the most fantastic handling collection of toys which you are invited to head along and play with!
Did you ever master the cup and ball? Or the yo-yo? What was your favourite toy growing up? Everyone is welcome to join in, reminiscence about the toys you played with during your childhood and maybe introduce them to a new generation.
Discover more about toys from Tudor times to the modern day before exploring the Museum of Liverpool’s Timeline of Toys.
Join exhibiting artist Zinzi Minott in conversation with Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programme at FACT, as they unpack Zinzi’s practice and discuss her new commissioned artwork. This artist talk will include a Q&A.
Since 2018, artist and dancer Zinzi Minott (UK) has released a new version of her annual series Fi Dem. These moving-image works explore both the histories of the Windrush Generation, and broader histories and experiences of Blackness, migration, and living in the diaspora.
Each iteration is a visual manifestation of a year lived: lives moved and moving. Within Let the Song Hold Us, we present the 2022 instalment: Fi Dem V – A Redemptive Song, developed in response to Liverpool.
Focusing on the city’s Caribbean community, Minott explores Liverpool’s history as a port and its part in the Atlantic slave trade, as well as amplifying the current struggles of Merseyside’s Windrush community.
Moments of dance, celebration and joy are contrasted and glitched with archival footage of the arrival of the Windrush generation, and discussion around the uncertain future of a community Caribbean Centre – highlighting the precarity perpetuated by political and civic systems in the UK.
Presented as part of Liverpool Against Racism, join FACT for the first screenings of The Active Ingredients of Liverpool by Mandela8.
Filmed and produced in L8, this powerful film takes you on a journey of community activism in Liverpool, and the influence of people when they work together to achieve change. It aims to capture the legacy of activism of the area by remembering and recording important stories.
The Active Ingredients of Liverpool brings together multiple generations, from the 1980s anti-apartheid campaigners to the young activists of today, to the pass the baton on.
There are additional screenings 6 and 10 May, 3pm.
Get creative and make a Viking inspired helmet to take home with you in this in family workshop.
Museum of Liverpool looks back and remembers some settlers who first visited Merseyside shores more than 1000 years ago!
Additional workshops:
28 July, 1.30-4pm
29 July, 1.30-4pm
