This Christmas, Liverpool’s stunning new venue Hope Street Theatre will play host to the family-favourite Aladdin. Produced by Drops of Light CIC, the show will run from 1st – 30th December.

Drop of Light CIC’s Aladdin offers winter theatre goers an all immersive Christmas experience. Involving one-hundred and thirty children from the local community, fifty amateur actors and an array of specially trained local volunteers, Aladdin lets the community lead the way this Christmas. Writer Jessica Lea (Hollyoaks, Eastenders) breathes fresh life into the script by adding a new and contemporary voice to the play’s narrative.

Staged in the round of Hope Street Theatre’s intimate one-hundred and twenty-nine-seater venue, this winter’s theatre-goers will have the chance to be a part a Christmas show quite like no other.

Director of Drops of Light CIC and Producer/Creative Director of Aladdin, James Lacey said, “We’re thrilled to be working with Hope Street Theatre again. As we’ll have the longest run in their space to-date, it will be exciting to be able to make both substantial and impactful changes. As we’ll be in the heart of the theatre, we are in theory, transforming an entire venue. The walls are quite literally becoming our paint palette. This freedom gives us an especially intimate setting which helps to add that unique, Christmas feeling. This is after all very much in the community, for the community by the community. It’s not just something to watch, it’s something to own”.

Aladdin stars Adam McCoy, Tori Hargreaves, Helen Carter, Liam Dascombe, Emma Bispham and Jamie Greer.

Aladdin is produced by creative director and founder of Drop of Light Theatre Co. James Lacey. The production is directed by Sam Donovan, written by Jessica Lea and choreographed by Lindsay Ingleby.

Aladdin is the second collaboration between Drops of Light CIC and Hope Street Theatre. Confessions of a Touring Nun by James Lacey appeared at Hope Street Theatre on 10th of June 2018.