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Burjesta Theatre Announce Weekly Workshops At The Casa Bar.

Burjesta Theatre, the team behind the excellent The Pied Piper of Liverpool, are starting up weekly workshops as from Wednesday 20th February and then every Wednesday thereafter. They take place at The Casa Bar, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ, starting time 7pm and cost £2 in. The first one next week will be a ‘taster session’, co-run by Mikyla Durkan and Julian Bond, co-founders of Burjesta.

Over the following months they will be delving into ‘the art of storytelling’, ‘clowning’, ‘commedia dell’ arte’, ‘Greek chorus work’ and much, much, more. The workshops themselves will feed directly into planned productions, one for end of June, one for beginning of September, with only people attending workshops being considered for roles within these productions.

The Pied Piper Of Liverpool, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alan Bower, Alun Parry, Geraldine Moloney-Judge, Mike Leane, Kate Mulvihill, Richard MacDonald, Mikyla Durkan, Sarah Tryer, Adam Byrne, Laura Foulkes.

The Casa might not be the first place that audiences think of plays as being performed in the Hope Street area of the city. However away from the Unity Theatre down the road and the looming cultural giant that is the new look Everyman Theatre, The Casa offers the chance for local productions to shine with actors who may be making their first tempting steps into the profession.  This was no less the case in the entertaining and thought provoking Julian Bond and Burjesta Theatre’s play, The Pied Piper Of Liverpool.

Burjesta Theatre To Bring The Pied Piper Of Liverpool To The ‘Casa.

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.