Tag Archives: Lantern Theatre

Roberta Franca Makes Her Liverpool Stage Debut This May.

Italian born actress Roberta Laguardia makes her Liverpool stage debut in one woman show Franca, the result of research work on the figure of Franca Rame, the most innovative female figure in Italian theatre of the twentieth century.

The show, which comes to the Lantern Theatre from the 19th to the 21st May, looks deep into the heart and soul of the actress, in a fine example of a woman on the front line of the battle for civil rights. The performance looks at women’s rights and sexual violence against women, a subject matter that could be considered more relevant today now that the term “rape culture” has entered our social vocabulary.

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(305 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Jennifer Bea.

It takes two to truly make a conversation, to sit and chat without the meaning being lost and the understanding being stilted and diluted, watered down and the froth of life being spluttered upon and half drawn conclusions met.

Meeting up with Jennifer Bea ahead of her performance in the Jim Cartwright play Two, you cannot help but be struck by the fire that dances in the eyes, of the absolute determination to bring a character to life. Even if you have had the honour of knowing Ms. Bea for a while, that fire catches you out and you cannot help but be drawn to it, like a moth serenading a flame, you know that time is short but you revel upon every word.

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(1444 words, estimated 5:47 mins reading time)

Dhanil Ali Brings The Liz And Dick Show To The Lantern Theatre This February.

On the set of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Richard Burton cajoles Elizabeth Taylor into learning the part which would lead to her second Oscar – Burton would leave the ceremony empty handed again. Behind the united facade though, the cracks are beginning to show on the married couple’s personal and professional relationship.

Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, and at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre in January 2015, Dhanil Ali’s The Liz & Dick Show now comes to Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre for two performances only, inviting audiences to witness the intimate breakdown of one of the classic love stories of the 20th Century.

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(304 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Billy Cowan’s Still Ill To Be Performed At The Lantern Theatre As Part Of Homotopia Festival.

A tragic love story between ‘the jumped up pantry boy’ and the ‘boy with the thorn in his side’ comes to Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre on 21ST and 22nd November, as part of Homotopia Festival.

Still Ill is an award-winning new play that explores the legacy of the peace process in Northern Ireland and the music of The Smiths. It is a blistering drama that involves gay paramilitaries and gives an honest assessment of Ulster ten years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

Written by award-winning playwright Billy Cowan (who teaches Creative Writing at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk) and directed by Kenneth Branagh’s younger sister Joyce.

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James Shaw’s Young And Suicidal Debuts At The Lantern Theatre.

 “Nothing ever goes to plan, not even your own death…”

After finding his father hanged in the garage, Smith becomes infatuated with the idea of following his father’s footsteps and killing himself.

Two years later he places an advert on the Internet searching for a suicide partner… Natalie answers.

As an unlikely friendship unfolds, Smith and Natalie plan how to end their lives. But nothing ever goes to plan…. not even your own death.

Young and Suicidal is a provoking new production exploring youth and suicide. It debuts at Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre from Tuesday 26th August -Friday 29th 2014 at 7:30pm (Matinee performance on Friday 29th at 1.00pm).

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(298 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

The Music Of James Taylor To Be Performed At The Lantern Theatre.

Accomplished duo, ‘Sweet Baby James’ (Brian Dales & Jon Chamberlain), visit Liverpool on July 11th to share the music of legendary troubadour, James Taylor.

Brought to you in the intimate setting of The Lantern Theatre, this will be a relaxing evening of James Taylor’s hits (including You’ve Got A Friend, Fire & Rain and Carolina in My Mind) plus more of the many varied songs that make up Taylor’s repertoire.

Sweet Baby James has been toured the U.K. throughout 2013 enjoying enthusiastic responses wherever they go.

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Waiting For Godot To Be Performed At The Lantern Theatre By Big Teeth.

Live and affordable, Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot is to be performed at the Lantern Theatre Liverpool on the 3rd and 4th of October. Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, Godot’s themes are as relevant today as they were then, or perhaps even more so.

Brought to you by one of Liverpool’s newest theatre companies, Big Teeth aim to tell their anguish of waiting by showcasing their unique interpretation of the existentialist’s Holy Grail of text. Normally, it costs a lot of money and a round trip to London to see such a piece but Big Teeth aim to bring classic texts that we read, study and discuss so often but rarely see, to your doorstep.

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Chester University Graduates Launch New Theatre Company With Performance At Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre.

Two local actors are set to stage a self-penned, family inspired play at Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre. Hayley Riley and Louise Evans of Haylo Theatre Company are both graduates of the University of Chester.  Despite studying at the same university a two – year gap between the girls meant that they only met as post graduates whilst working for a Theatre in Education Company in Chester. Their mutual love of performance forged a strong friendship between the girls and Haylo Theatre was born.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview Special With Kiefer Williams Of Grin Theatre.

As artistic Director at Grin Theatre, Kiefer Williams has an enormous responsibility in pushing the work of young writers onto the stage. Alongside Simon James, Kiefer is responsible for bringing the fantastic Queertet to the stage, a set of four plays that deal with LGBT issues in today’s modern world. The two men are certainly proud of their work and the experiences they bring to the city of Liverpool and the work they do is certainly valued as the city gears up in preparation for the Liverpool Pride 2013.

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Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Rising Comedian Alastair Clark.

Alastair Clark sits back in the seats on the first floor of FACT on Wood Street and grins. The man who hails from Grantham in Lincolnshire is intensely likeable as a person, as many of University colleagues have threatened to attest to, he is one of the many University graduates that find themselves at the bitter end of the current recession/depression, depending on who you talk to, saddled with debt for wanting to learn and trying to make a difference.

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(1654 words, estimated 6:37 mins reading time)