Liverpool’s Unity Theatre Unveils Its 2018 Autumn Season.

World-class theatre companies: Headlong, Told by an Idiot and Paines Plough To Come To The Unity.

 Unity Theatre is delighted to introduce their Autumn 2018 season, featuring some of the most respected names in theatre, as part of an exciting programme that looks to the future and questions what might be in store.

From September 10th – 15th the Unity Theatre is delighted to have a new play from multi award winning theatre company Headlong, in association with Birmingham Reparatory Theatre; Meek is a dystopian drama that presents a nightmarish parallel reality where censorship, repression and control reign supreme. The play, from Fringe First-winning playwright Penelope Skinner, was described as “an absolutely captivating show” * * * * by Broadway Baby when it opened in Edinburgh this August.

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Kneehigh Return To The Everyman For A Joyful And Surreal Retelling Of International Best-Seller FUP.

A story of family, love, loss and an overweight whiskey-swilling duck is set to visit Liverpool this October, as Everyman favourites Kneehigh return with FUP from 9th-13th October for seven performances.

Based on U.S. novelist Jim Dodge’s best-seller, FUP is a wonderfully strange and uproarious modern fable directed by Simon Harvey – artistic director of O-region and presented by Dead Dog in a Suitcase and The Tin Drum makers Kneehigh.

One-hundred year-old Grandaddy Jake Santee and his enormous grandson Tiny live life on the fringes, drinking the home distilled Ol’ Death Whisper, building fences and boasting of immortality.  But then, Fup arrives – a movie-loving mallard with an insatiable appetite whose extraordinary presence transforms their lives forever.

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West End Star Linzi Hateley Debuts As Mrs Johnstone In Blood Brothers Autumn Tour.

The Musical For All Time Comes To St. Helens Theatre Royal Next Month.

Bill Kenwright’s “Dazzling” (Sunday Telegraph) production of the international smash hit musical Blood Brothers announces its 2018 Autumn tour, opening on Tuesday 4th September at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and visits St. Helens Theatre Royal from Tuesday 11th – Saturday 15th September.

This iconic musical has been visiting theatres across the country throughout 2018, performing to sell-out houses and receiving standing ovations.

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Jared James Nichols Comes To Manchester’s Rebellion This September.

You can’t teach the blues. It’s not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It’s about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player’s soul.

It’s simple. Either you’ve got it, or you don’t. Jared James Nichols has definitely got it.  The Wisconsin born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist’s first LP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channelled blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock ‘n’ roll. It’s raw, raucous and righteously real.

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The HotHouse Flowers Come To Liverpool’s 02 Academy This November.

Celtic group Hothouse Flowers will return to Liverpool for the first time in three years as they announce details of their upcoming show at the O2 Academy on Wednesday 7th November

Made up of Liam O’ Maonlai­ (vocals, keys, guitar), Fiachna O’ Braonain (guitar, vocals), Peter O’Toole (bass) and Dave Clarke (drums), Hothouse Flowers formed in 1985 and have since built themselves up from busking in the streets of Dublin to performing on stages across the world. They made Irish musical history with their first album People in 1988 as it was named the most successful debut release due to its phenomenal chart success as it hit number 1 in the Irish charts within just a week and is now certified Gold.

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Matt Dunbar, This Room Burns Bright. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You are never where you want to be, and the effect of nostalgia has a demanding effect, not only as you get older, finding the whimsy of the scarlet hue of youth a perfect place in which to reminisce but because of the way that modern life has such a strangle-hold on the way we communicate and the way we live, perhaps going months, even years from seeing those we hung around as children, when the world was an easier place to believe that all would be alright.

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Kidderminster Harriers Gain Steam On The Wing.

 

It might not be the first

place, this town in Worcestershire,

that you deliberate over with

ponderous ambition

but perhaps Kidderminster

should have a thought, a moment

of attention, as the rising steam

and black grumpy cloud

muddle together with the song

of yesterday, vapour

on the wing as the Harriers take the game

by the scruff of the neck

and equalise, last minute or so,

saluted by days gone by

as supporters walk

with drawn point faces

through the haze of nostalgia

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Danielle Hope And Sam Ferriday Join The Cast Of Rock Of Ages At The Empire Theatre This October.

Dan Looney, Adam Paulden, Jason Haigh-Ellery, Selladoor Worldwide and Gavin Kalin are delighted to announce that Danielle Hope and Sam Ferriday will join the cast of award-winning smash-hit musical Rock Of Ages coming to the Liverpool Empire Tuesday 23rd – Saturday 27th October.

Danielle is perhaps best-known for having won B.B.C. One’s Over the Rainbow, which lead to her professional debut in the lead role of Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of The Wizard Of Oz at the London Palladium. Since then, Danielle has starred as Eponine in the West End production of Les Misarables, as Maria in the U.K. tour of The Sound Of Music, and recently finished touring the U.K. as Sandy in Grease.

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Dan Owen Announces Headlines Tour This Autumn, Including Night At Leaf On October 4th.

Dan Owen has announced a string of live dates for October and November, following the release of his forthcoming debut album Stay Awake With Me on August 17th.

Regarding the record Dan says, “This is my first album. I like to think of it as a collection of personal stories and experiences. I feel like this is what I have been working for since I first picked up a guitar at 8 years old. A lot has happened since then and these songs cover some of the high and low points for me and some of those closest to me. I am really grateful to everyone who has been a part of the process and I couldn’t be more proud of the result.'”

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Still Beautiful, The South Come To Southport’s Atkinson Theatre This October.

 

The South, Photograph used with kind permission by M P. Promotions.

When great British pop institution, The Beautiful South split in 2007, most members of the band didn’t feel ready to hang up their microphones or instruments just yet – and in timeless fashion, they will be coming to Southport’s Atkinson Theatre on Thursday 11th October as part of a new tour.

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