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Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 April
Returning to unity for its second year, ASAP is Stuart Price’s critically acclaimed love story set in Liverpool at the turn of the Millennium. A tragic accident takes Paul and Anna’s partners from them. As they try to rebuild their lives they begin to understand how much they really lost...
You might not be blamed for thinking you’d stumbled into a cult show. And cult show this might become.
Fringe Report
... an accomplished piece of theatre, see it!
BBC Southern Counties
Look out for Stopped Clock's new show, Lucky Dip, at unity form Thursday 24 April.
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £8.50/£6.50 concessions
Not suitable for children
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 April
Cottage Theatre present their new show Spring Madness, the sequal to their successful and popular show, Panto Madness.
Guaranteed to chase the blues away Spring Madness promises to be even better than the last! It is a family variety show and just as scintillating. There is something for everyone in this show.
With superior side splitting silly sketches, shimmering costumes, sparkling songs and spellbinding soft shoe shuffles.
showtime 7:30pm
tickets £5.00/£4.00 concessions
by Michael Frayn
Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 April
In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg travelled to Nazi occupied Copenhagen to meet his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. These old friends and colleagues found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and embroiled in a race to create the atom bomb. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen, and what he wanted to say to Bohr, are questions that have intrigued and divided historians and scientists ever since.
Michael Frayn’s play about their historic meeting has become a classic of modern drama; a meditation on friendship and moral responsibility, by turns intellectually dazzling and deeply moving, that journeys through the realm of science and beyond.
Freehold’s professional touring production will feature Paul Green as Niels Bohr, Erica Nash as his wife Margarethe, and Nicholas Camm as Werner Heisenberg.
Directed by Alan Mathews.
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £8.50/£6.50 concessions
by John Dillon
Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 April
A darkly comic drama that finds humour on the streets where you’d least expect it. Liverpool celebrates its 800th birthday with a civic bash and looks forward to its year as European Capital of Culture. Danny and Frazer, two strays of middle age, hold their own celebration in a neglected park in the company of Marie; seasoned purveyor of sexual services, heroin addict and friend.
During the course of their alcohol and pharmaceutical fuelled discourses they reveal something of their pasts. From Danny and Frazer's spiteful and bigoted intolerances to Marie's profound longings for lost lives and shattered dreams.
The underclass of the homeless, the addicted and the disaffected still exist beneath the veneer of a city's polished image. This play is about them.
Packs a quite remarkable punch...
Philip Key, Daily Post on John Dillon’s play Wearing Colours.
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £8.50/£6.50 concessions
by Richard Shannon
Tuesday 22 April
Performed by Liana Mau Tan Gould, the inspirational true story of Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is told in this compelling solo performance about the life of the only Nobel Peace Prize winner who is also a political prisoner.
Despite being the democratically elected leader of the country, Burma’s military junta have kept Sui Kyi under house arrest for over a decade.
Regardless of what you know or think about Burmese politics, this show is an unmissable hymn to the power of the human spirit in the quest for freedom.
The Lady Of Burma is a powerful performance that has had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh festival and the Old Vic in London.
The Times said ...tells it all and catches the pain and wry humour inside that tiny frame and strong, wise face.
Metro said... a clever, effective script that requires little in the way of prior knowledge of Burma to thoroughly entrance you.
The Independent gave this solo performance 4 stars and said... rarely is a show so powerful.
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £8.50/6.50 concessions
Tuesday 22 to Sunday 27 April
An epic promenade performance that moves the audience outside and inside the iconic Sefton Park Palm House, inspired by the play ‘The Ghost Sonata’ by August Strindberg.
Outside, all is chaos and confusion. Anarchy in a war torn land. On the other side of the gates, the haunting strains of gypsy balkan music from a wandering disparate band hints at a world in which ghosts walk in bright daylight. The journey takes you to whispered secrets, corseted ladies cradled in bones, glimpses of interminable passion and the heady scent of purple hyacinth. You’ll make mischief at the Butchers, have chance encounters with reluctant heroes, a mummy who lives in a closet and a vampiric household cook.
Darkly funny, surreal and visually spectacular, People Show weave their magic as the journey glides you through the Opera to an inner sanctum, a lavish and lascivious world of contrast, exchanging the savagery of the badlands for visions of twisted beauty revealing a tale of a broken utopia; interrupted by Wagner, vaudeville and tea.
Devised by the Company, Directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo, Original music Mike Figgis.
Lighting Chahine Yavroyan. Performed by People Show and featuring Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Hope Street and Merseyside Dance Initiative.
Co-commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company and Sefton Park Palm House with support from the Arts Council of England, LIPA and unity.
Part of this show takes place outside so please dress accordingly. If you have any access requirements please let us know when you book.
For directions to Sefton Park Palm House please visit www.palmhouse.org.uk/location.htm
All tickets are now sold out
venue Sefton Park Palm House
doorsopen 8:00pm showtime 8:30pm
tickets £12.00/£10.00 concessions
Wednesday 23 April
Your bezzie mate for 2008.
Nige continues his one man promotional tour of his home town with a second instalment of his 08 cultural highlights programme. Joined by a lot of people who look quite a lot like Keith Carter, Nige will prove that there’s more culture in Liverpool than there is in a tub of warm yoghurt. Expect thrills, pills and belly laughs as Nige takes you on this unique journey through his city of culture.
Book early to avoid disappointment but if you’re stuck Nige might have a few going spare on the night. Meet him outside the Phil. No travellers’ cheques.
I wonder what that funny little lot are up to now. Robyn Archer
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £12.00/£10.00 concessions
Book parts 1 & 2 and save £1.00 per ticket
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 April
Doug is a professional gamer. He’s never lost before, from bingo to bridge, that is until he meets Frances in a bathtub in Liverpool City Centre...
Lucky Dip is a brand new comedy from Stopped Clock, based on a true story, about complete losers with an obsession for winning.
Stuart Price and the outstanding cast create characters that can be cared about.
Fringe Report
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £8.50/£6.50 concessions
Not suitable for children
By Willy Russell
Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April
Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who are separated at birth. They grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with tragic consequences.
This youth theatre company production of the stage play features students from Performers Theatre School in Hope Street.
The students have produced Blood Brothers with assistance from teachers in the Speech and Drama Department.
For more information, visit www.performerstheatre.co.uk
showtime 8:00pm
tickets £10.00/£8.00 concessions