Reviews

Liverpool Everyman
30 October to 29 November 2008

The Everyman theatre, to which Pete Postlethwaite has made a triumphant return, has its limitations as a performance space. But director-of-the-moment Rupert Goold skillfully plays to its strengths with his first production of King Lear – bringing the action into the heart of the audience – while Giles Cadle’s minimalist set of weedy steps and corrugated iron backdrop complement the action to powerful effect. Read more »

By Tommy Kearney
The Actor’s Studio, Seel Street, Liverpool.
September 23 – October 4, 2008

With a true West End hit in Madonna and Me, his third play, already under his belt, Whiston born and raised playwright, Tommy Kearney, shows with Windermere – his first play – that talent runs through his genes. Windermere is genuine, thought provoking, funny and richly entertaining theatre, brought to life by a superb cast. Read more »

News

One lucky local actor will have the chance to play opposite Jennifer Ellison in a star-studded production of Cinderella at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre this Christmas, alongside Liverpool legends Cilla Black, Les Dennis, Nick Pickard, Ted Robbins, Pete Price and Roy Brandon.
 
Auditions for this exciting part will take place at the Empire Theatre on THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER.
 
Those wishing to be Jennifer’s Prince Charming are required to be professional actors, who either live in the Merseyside area or were born on Merseyside, aged between 18 and 35.
 
This is not an open audition – those wishing to attend must first contact Scott Mitchell, Casting Director at First Family Entertainment (the producers of the panto) enclosing a CV and recent photograph.
 
Scott can be contacted either via email on casting@ffe-uk.com, or at the following postal address: Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5HH.
 
Cinderella, featuring an all-star Liverpool cast, runs from 11 December 2008 until 4 January2009, and promises to be a truly magical show.
 
The one and only Cilla Black returns to her native city to play the Fairy Godmother, alongside model and actress Jennifer Ellison as Cinderella, Hollyoaks star Nick Pickard as Dandini, comedian and TV star Les Dennis as Buttons and actor Ted Robbins as Baron Hardup. Radio presenter Pete Price and Brick up the Mersey Tunnels star Roy Brandon play the Ugly Sisters.
 
Traditionally the most popular pantomime title of them all, the Cinderella story has timeless appeal to old and young alike, with lavish, glittering costumes and spectacular staging, lots of laughter and its celebrity-filled cast, Cinderella at the Liverpool Empire is THE panto to see in the UK this Christmas. 
  
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
LIVERPOOL Empire Theatre
Thursday 11 December – Sunday 4 January
Ticket prices: £15.00, £20.00, £24.00, £27.50
Box office: 0844 847 2525*
www.LiverpoolEmpire.org.uk*
*24/7 - subject to booking fees

Renowned Liverpool writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce (Millions, 24 Hour Party People and Cosmic) extends his highly successful talents from books and films for young people to his debut stage play.  PROPER CLEVER follows a group of teenagers who have banded together to form a sub-culture alternative club.  This witty and funny new play is for anyone who is or has ever been a teenager.  Directed by Everyman Playhouse Associate Director Serdar Bilis (The May Queen) with a cast including Sarah Ozeke (Our Country’s Good) and Samantha Robinson (3 Sisters On Hope Street), PROPER CLEVER is at the Liverpool Playhouse from Friday 3 until Saturday 25 October 2008. Read more »

Interviews

Theatre on the grandest of scales will grace the streets of Liverpool for three days from Thursday September 5 as London and Nantes-based production companies, Artichoke and La Machine, bring its Culture Company commissioned project Les Mecaniques Savants to life, in and around the city centre’s streets and landmarks. Read more »

Andrew Schofield is, without doubt, one of Liverpool’s finest actors. Born in 1958, Andrew came to prominence in the TV adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s Scully in 1984 for ITV, famously scoring before his beloved Kop in the title sequence, and has since gone on to perform in many other plays and films, not least of which being Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy in 1986, playing Johnny Rotten alongside Gary Oldman’s Sid Vicious. Read more »