’Tis Pity She’s a Whore is a dark tale of lust and revenge, centring on sexual love between a brother and a sister. While this may sound like an average episode of Hollyoaks, actually it’s got more in common with one of those dark gothic movies from the 1940s starring Bette Davies, the ones you snuggle up on the couch to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon and get lost in. Or I do anyway. The last time ’Tis Pity was on at Liverpool’s Everyman it was directed by John Doyle and known locally as ‘Tis Pity She’s a Horse’, so I was amused this time to see my ticket printed with ‘Tis Pity She’s a Who’, suggesting an element of time travel and shape shifting that writer John Ford could surely not have anticipated.
The sound of Music is coming to town, that means that fancy dress season is starting - oh yes, the nights have started to draw in so we always get on our fancy dress. I can hear the music now...... drifting over the hills
Liverpool Acoustic Live returns this months on Friday 24th September at it's normal home of the fantastic, visit it more than once View Two Gallery on Mathew Street. It's going to be having an awesome Stuckists exhibition on at the same time. The doors open at 8.00pm with the music starting at 8.30pm and finishing at 11.15pm.
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This free festival is fast approaching, just a week away on the 29th and 30th August. Plus it's celebrating it's 18th Birthday with 6 different stages and many new themes, it's looking to be the best festival yet, making for a spectacular weekend for all ages and tastes.
Swedish company Cirkus Cirkör, one of Europe’s top names in contemporary circus, is visiting the North West for the very first time. Featuring eight multi-skilled circus artists, this family-friendly show is jam-packed with clowning, acrobatics, juggling, trapeze aerialists and much more. Bringing together circus, music and breathtaking visuals, Inside Out celebrates the art of circus; its technical skillfulness and magic.
Phoenix Dance Theatre make bold statement with première of Declarations at Liverpool Playhouse
Phoenix Dance Theatre’s first major tour under Artistic Director Sharon Watson, Declarations, will be a programme of four contrasting and musically diverse dance works, and willpremière at the Liverpool Playhouse on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 September.
Yes It will be freezing outside but they'll be able to turn the heating off in St George's Hall as Kitten De Ville and Dirty Martini fly in to join Millie Dollar for a night of glamour at Liverpool’s St Georges Hall. The delightful Martini Lounge have announced that tickets for its upcoming grand showcase on Sunday 31 October are now available.
Review: From Beyond Iron Mountain
Directed by: Bob Moyler
I was really excited to be going to see a bit of Sci-fi theatre so when 35 of us crammed into a room suitable for 30, the atmosphere was heady to say the least. As the plastic blow up globe suspended by thick string and a bamboo pole appeared I knew I was going to enjoy it, when the cheap torch flicked on and shone across the room I was biting my knuckles with excitement.
The story was about a Doctor who is directed to buy a weather machine from a Professor to stop the awful weather conditions on an earth like planet. The action mostly takes place in the Professors laboratory, the Doctor is greeted by an ApeMan creature and inept Robot and lead to the professor. The only trouble is the weather machine is it doesn’t work, and the Prof’s rather attractive female assistant Boris knows it doesn’t but the Prof refuses to accept this and continues discussing the sale of the machine with the Doctor. After several fruitless attempts to repair the machine, a couple of wandering extra terrestrials finally manage to get it working after breaking the Prof’s leg.
Yes.....Everything you have ever wanted from one of the most politically radical cities in the world a base for workshops, exhibitions, events and your radical ideas. No not a squat and only temporary but it's going to be upfront and personal and promises four weeks of explosive art, film, discussion, music and poetry raising the issues others do not have the nerve to raise.
"A mouse took a walk through the deep dark wood, A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good."
On hearing these words, parents everywhere stop and listen. For this is the entrancing tale of the Gruffalo; many of us love it for itself, some are sentimental as it reminds us of cosy, snuggly bedtime stories with our children, and some are just relieved for something that will distract their own little monster for ten minutes. Me, I’m an ‘all of the above’, so the Gruffalo has a great place in my heart.
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From Beyond Iron Mountain, is a brand new piece of Science Fiction Theatre by a brand new Theatre - that's Bonk St Theatre. Plus it premiers next week.
Grownups all over Liverpool have been searching for small relatives to take to In the Night Garden in Sefton Park this weekend. Not only might it be exciting to see live versions of these cute characters, the show is in a huge tent in the park, reminiscent of a giant igloo. Good eh? So, ever prepared, off I set with one I made earlier; I call her #smallgirl.