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Jonathan Miller And Barrie Rutter Unite Once More For Northern Broadsides Take On King Lear

Following the success of Rutherford & Son, Northern Broadsides join forces again with renowned opera and theatre director Jonathan Miller to stage Shakespeare’s King Lear. Broadsides’ Barrie Rutter takes the lead role at the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 28th April to Saturday 2nd May.

King Lear is the story of a family at war with itself. Lear, an ageing and deeply flawed individual, wrecks his relationship with his three daughters and in doing so, loses all he has. What is there left? This question, which is Lear’s predicament and Shakespeare’s genius, invites us all to think upon what we might gain when nothing is all we have.

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(318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Box Of Tricks Bring Ella Carmen Greenhill’s Plastic Figurines To The Liverpool Playhouse.

 

After the critical success of their first national tour in 2013 with Tom Morton-Smith’s In Doggerland, Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks is to premier Ella Carmen Greenhill’s moving and touchingly funny new play Plastic Figurines. The play will tour from April 8th to May 16th and will be performed at the Liverpool Playhouse from April 8th to April 11th.

Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with leukaemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Rose returns home to find a very different brother to when she left. Today though is his eighteenth birthday and Rose wants everything to be perfect but life with Mikey isn’t ever that simple.

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(240 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Demob Happy To Release New E.P. And Perform At Liverpool’s East Village Arts Centre.

Brighton’s finest new purveyors of raucous, off-kilter garage rock, Demob Happy follow their triumphant 2014 debut single Succubus with the Young & Numb E.P., due for release on Record Store Day, April 18th via Milk Parlour Records/So Recordings. The band will also be touring ahead of the single release and come to Liverpool’s E.V.A.C. on March 31st.

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(286 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Simon Armitage And Nick Bagnall Reunite For The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead.

English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have announced their co-production of The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead. The production reunites Simon Armitage and Nick Bagnall after their recent collaborations on The Last Days of Troy and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Simon Armitage said, “The new gods sit in Whitehall and Downing Street, no less image-obsessed and power-hungry than their ancient counterparts, and a latter-day borderless Europe forms the backdrop to Odysseus’ travels, to a journey that begins at the confluence point of East and West, a place of conflict from the Siege of Troy to the present day.”

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(963 words, estimated 3:51 mins reading time)

Milton Jones Brings Critically Acclaimed Show, Temple Of Daft, To St. Helens.

Due to popular demand, one-liner king Milton Jones is adding a further 71 dates to his critically acclaimed U.K. tour, Temple of Daft, which includes a visit to St. Helens Theatre Royal on Wednesday 11th November and tickets are on sale now.

In total, Milton will perform 170 dates from February to November 2015. Having already received phenomenal five and four star reviews, this show is certainly one to watch.

The show is a side-splitting tale of a madcap journey as Milton follows in the footsteps of his great-uncle (who looks suspiciously like Milton). Unlike his previous shows it’s a story, but there are still lots and lots of ridiculous gags as well as the trademark multi-coloured shirts and big hair.

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(289 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Cardboard Citizens Bring Benefit To The Lantern Theatre In April.

Displacement, disability and sex addiction: three interwoven stories from characters on the margins of society are explored in Cardboard Citizens most ambitious national tour to date, Sarah Wood’s Benefit.

Directed by Adrian Jackson, Benefit goes on U.K. Tour between the 18th March and 10th June and comes to Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre on April 16th and 17th and to St. Helens Library on April 24th.

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(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Belvedere Pashun’s Comedy, No Second Bite, Comes To The Lantern Theatre.

Award winning actress Lynne Fitzgerald will star in the new comedy play to be performed at the Lantern Theatre in April, No Second Bite by Belvedere Pashun (Norma Jeane The Musical, WAG! The Musical).

Ms. Fitzgerald plays Bella, the bored, single, forty something entrepreneur who has a life changing encounter when she buys an apologetic cup of coffee for a complete stranger, (Chris played by Jaiden Micheal).

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(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Lapsley To Perform At Leaf This April.

In January of this year, eighteen year old singer, songwriter and producer Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher released her acclaimed debut Understudy E.P. on XL Recordings. Featuring lead single Falling Short, the E.P. cemented her position as a prodigious new talent, mixing sparse, minimal electronic production with gorgeous, emotive song writing.

With a new video premiered for the Understudy E.P. track Brownlow, which was directed by Cherise Payne and Lapsley, the musician has announced her most extensive tour so far. In addition to headline shows in the U.K. and Europe, including a night at Leaf in Liverpool on April 17th, Lapsley will also play her first ever North American dates in May.

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(123 words, estimated 30 secs reading time)

Helen Foster’s The Diver Comes To 81 Renshaw Street.

The distance that separates England and New York is easily eaten away mile by mile, the fact that there is yawning hungry ocean between the two civilisations is a fact that makes walking it and kicking stones along the way more impossible than finding a peaceful way to organise a revolution.

Kate Plank is an explorer, one who is going to attempt to walk the Atlantic Ocean floor, the solid ground below the troublesome waves and one in search of many answers. What perils we she encounter? Will she arrive in one piece? Will the audience succumb to drowning*?  All these and more will be answered as Helen Foster’s play The Diver comes to 81 Renshaw Street on March 12th and 13th.

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(223 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Liverpool Calling Again In 2015 As Reverend And The Makers Confirmed As Headliners.

Niamh Rowe from the Sundowners at 2014's Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Niamh Rowe from the Sundowners at 2014’s Liverpool Calling. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

For the third year running, St Luke’s Church in Liverpool will host a day of music within its iconic walls. On Saturday 25th July, the Bombed Out Church, as well as other venues in the local area, will be showcasing some of the best local music around, as well as a tremendous headliner in this year’s Liverpool Calling.

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(309 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)