If you thought that the Pied Piper of Hamelin was just a story by the Brother Grimm or epic poem by Robert Browning stuffed full of rats and treachery the Burjesta Theatre’s innovative adaptation, The Pied Piper of Liverpool, is a show that must be seen to put the fairy tale in its place and remind yourself that all is not well in the world.

Set sometime in the near future and Liverpool is a city in crisis, the mayor has closed down the hospitals, schools and libraries and a plague of rats has overrun the city. In amongst it comes the Pied Piper and soon realises all is not well at the Town Hall and the questions keep coming.