The Tmesis team are thrilled to be running a creative writing session and conversation at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse on Sat 11th march exploring the themes of the current Top Girls production.
Open to women of all ages – head along and explore your creativity with Tmesis and writer Claire Beerjeraz!
(If price is a barrier please get in touch as they have some bursary places)
Shoe Box Shadow Puppetry are a sustainable drama workshop project for children aged 9-11. Children will learn drama skills, how to make shadow puppetry, and will create stories with messaging around sustainability.
Through a mixture of crafts and physical drama games, children will learn how to creative narrative stories, and how to create their own shadow puppetry boxes with household items and will learn valuable everyday skills in an engaging and fun way.
FREE Places are limited, please contact artgroupie@outlook.com to sign up.
Attracting some of the biggest names in the profession such as Sarah Siddons – the first woman to perform Hamlet – and throughout the 19th Century when stars such Sir Henry Irving, Charles Dickens and Sarah Bernhardt trod Liverpool’s boards, not to mention the appearance of latter day icons such as Laurel & Hardy and Marlene Dietrich.
This innovative new course utilizes a stunning mixture of paper ephemera, daybills, photographs, paintings and theatrical posters in order to map the rich social, cultural and performative histories of several key Liverpool theatres and music halls, enabling partipants to develop a deeper understanding of Liverpool’s historic importance in the establishment of ‘Theatre’ as an independent art form and as a major generator of creativity and talent.
Week 1: Introduction: All of Liverpool’s a Stage (Actors & Actresses)
Week 2: The Theatre Royal, Williamson Square
Week 3: The Royal Colosseum/Queen’s Theatre, Paradise Street
Week 4: The Prince of Wales Theatre/Liverpool Empire
Week 5: The Star Theatre of Varieties/Liverpool Playhouse
Week 6: The Shakespeare Theatre, Fraser Street
Week 7: The Liverpool Olympia, West Derby Road
Week 8: The Royal Court Theatre, Great Charlotte Street
Week 9: The Everyman Theatre, Hope Street
Week 10: Conclusion & Coda – Performances at St. George’s Hall
Full fee £132/Concession £66
Join in with the next Everyman Scratch Studio at the Saturday brunch time of midday.
Settle in with your included coffee and pastry to enjoy and discuss innovative performance in the early stages of development.
An eclectic mix of North West theatre-makers will present short extracts of brand new work with the audience having the chance to offer their thoughts on how these exciting new ideas might progress
There will be hot drinks and pastries from 11.40pm.
Willful Misfits, Liverpool based arts organisation, are excited to share their new project Heads Up is a three-day, Drama and Film project specifically led for Neurodiverse young people aged 10 – 13yr olds.
The workshops will include, drama, poetry, drawing, story making and filming. It is a chance to get creative, share stories, learn new skills and make new friends in a creative, tolerant environment.
They will run from 10.30am – 3.30pm on Wed 10 Aug, Thu 11 Aug & Fri 12 Aug at the Everyman Theatre, Hope Street.
The workshops will be led by Professional Neurodiverse Community Artists Dawneey Warren and Abi Horsfield.
Interested in improvisation?
The sessions will happen on either the Saturday or the Sunday.
During June 2022 Saturday is the default day of the week on which this event happens. however this is subject to change due to the diary conflicts with other events. The details are confirmed on the Friday before the event.
This is confirmation: The next session is Saturday 11th June at 14.00
The performance space: is not being described or given here, but the meeting point is: The obelisk, inside Princes Park, as accessed via the `Sunburst Gates` located at the entranced hereby described as: The roundabout, at one end of Princes Avenue.
Meet up time 14.00 – 14.10 BST
Top Tips, arrive early at the meeting point early and you may need something to sit on: no chairs provided at the performance site..
Bus routes that stop at princes Park gates: 26,27, 75, 80. The 204 stops near princes park gates
The current plan is that the session will be delivered using one or more of the following formats.
Metered free improvisation – that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a time limit for when the piece ends.
System 50:50 for improvisers.
Un-metered free improvisation. that is a piece of free improvisation in music with a no preset time limit.
All levels of experience is music, free improvisation are welcome.
For more information see the website and social media links above.
The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and University of Notre Dame in association with Unreal Cities is pleased to present Beckett: Confined, a three-day festival of Samuel Beckett’s plays, associated musical performances and lectures.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was one of the 20th century’s most celebrated playwrights and authors, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His works examine what it means to be human, in all its absurd, existentialist and sometimes bleak comedy.
The programme presents an exciting blend of Beckett’s work, including multiple performances of some of his most rarely performed plays – Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and Krapp’s Last Tape, alongside a musical series featuring Words and Music, his radio play collaboration with Morton Feldman, and a Ghost Trio concert with Fidelio Trio performing Beethoven and Schubert, two of his favourite composers.
Raw, rude and raucous, Cherry Jezebel is a dazzling new drama created for the Everyman by writer Jonathan Larkin and director James Baker. Hilarious and heart-breaking, it’s a champagne blowout and the hangover from hell, a spin under the glitter ball that lands in the gutter.
The bass is pounding, the audience are cheering, and Cherry Brandy is blinking back tears. Tonight’s the night she’s finally recognised as the Queen she is, with the crown to prove it. Is this the triumphant moment she’s always dreamed of?
Behind the mascara, the wigs and the six-inch stiletto heels, all that glitters isn’t gold. At least she’s always got her best mate Heidi. But growing up queer in Liverpool is grim, and the queer family they’ve forged is about to slip through Cherry’s nicotine-stained fingers.
From the boudoirs to the bathrooms of Liverpool’s gloriously gobby drag scene, Cherry Jezebel is a riot of lipstick and split lips, of bitching and bruises. It’s a play that celebrates queerness while spilling the tea on the pain behind the polish.
Image: Candy Smokes by Jon Larkin and Ben Youdan
Bye Bye Baby are a jaw-dropping tribute to the musical phenomenon ‘Jersey Boys’ and the timeless, iconic music of ‘Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons’.
The event is held St Helens Theatre Royal, 24 September, 7.30pm. See here for tickets.
Incredible four part harmonies, roof raising falsetto complete with energetic and stylish choreography ensures that Bye Bye Baby is a show that will make it a night remember!
Includes 31 of Valli’s greatest hits including Sherry, December ’63 (Oh What A Night), Grease, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Beggin’, Working My Way Back To You, and many more!