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19th December 2009 Venue: The Lyceum, Bold Street, Liverpool |
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Feast of Happy Heathens A seasonal distraction from the Christmas shopping. Directed by Brad Rowbotham these three street theatre performances provided an alternative look at Christmas, with visual and musical shenanigans for all the family. |
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1st December 2009 to 23rd January 2010 Venue: Unity Theatre, Liverpool |
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The Snow Queen Continuing Hope Street’s partnership with the Unity Theatre for the 21st year in succession,'The Snow Queen' received web-wide rave reviews. Patrick Dineen was the composer/director, with support from renowned children’s playwright Mike Kenny. Liverpool-based theatre company Ullaloom were at the heart of the action. |
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26th September 2009 Venue: Church Street, Liverpool |
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OCCUPATION: HAZARDOUS A dynamic cacophony of sound, theatre and rubble, this performance was a lively piece of street theatre which used drumming to take you though the rigours and routines of a builder's working day. |
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20th September 2009 Venue: all along Hope Street, Liverpool and surrounding side streets. |
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The Big Nosh This project was a large scale street theatre performance. The project made up the street element of the Hope Street Feast, a food and drink market combined with open days for all the arts organisations and businesses along Hope Street in Liverpool. The theme for the performance was around cafés and restaurants. Each installation involved a different type of café experience from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
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5th September 2009 Venue: Crosby beach, Sefton |
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About Another Place "About Another Place" was performed at Crosby beach, using Antony Gormley's "Another Place" as an inspiration and backdrop. Directed by Denise Evans, it utilised the natural resources on the beach and the elements, whilst incorporating sound design from Kal Ross, musical direction by Sam Yates and epic theatre. |
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2nd July 2009 Venue: Tate Liverpool |
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Fool Spectrum Directed by internationally-renowned street theatre and performance company Cocoloco, this project combined installation and performance to create an evening event as part of Tate Liverpool's "Late at Tate" programme. "Fool Spectrum" combined professional and community performance and exhibition work to create a multi-art form festival evening at the Tate. Performance and installation combined sound design, film, digital design, design, performance and the surreal to tie in to the colour chart exhibition. |
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2nd December 2008 to 17th January 2009 Venue: Unity Theatre Liverpool |
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Emperor Bling is a proud and wealthy man but he hasn't got a thing to wear! In his huge palace he has a huge walk in wardrobe full of the finest clothes, in fact he cares more for his clothes than he does his citizens. Beginning to feel unpopular and in an attempt to win back some admiration, he hires two dodgy tailors, who promise him the finest suit of clothes from the most beautiful cloth. What could go wrong? This was our 20th consecutive collaboration with Unity Theatre. |
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9th, 10th, 11th October 2008 Venue: Unity Theatre Liverpool |
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Time
“Time” was a collaboration of four different art forms (physical theatre, visual art, music and film/projection) that worked together to inspire each other as to what happened next through a process of live art improvisation. “Time” took its audience on an evocative, emotional and visually stunning journey though love, death, sexual desire, failure, ambition, time and other discoveries that Dusko Sibl's evocative paintings led us to. Tmesis Theatre directed this project, the strong physicality inspired by their intensely dynamic style of movement theatre. Dusko Sibl painted live on stage, film maker Robin Rice filmed live, projecting elements on to different parts of the space, canvas and bodies and electro funk group Winter Bourne & Blaster created a live soundscape for the action which was different every night. “Time” engaged all four elements, making them a necessity for each other through improvisation, transforming the theatre to a large, moving canvas. |
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21st September 2008 Venue: all along Hope Street |  |
Market of Optimism
An exhilarating and uplifting street theatre event commissioned by Liverpool Culture Company as part of Liverpool's celebrations as European Capital of Culture 2008. The event boasted 25 stalls, individually designed and each peddling optimism. The event was directed by Mischief La Bas' Ian Smith. It was presented by over 100 performers and seen by 25,000 during one of the sunniest days of 2008. Presented as part of the Hope Street Feast. |
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4th December 2007 to 19th January 2008 Venue: Unity Theatre Liverpool |
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Pinocchio
Continuing to provide the best children's theatre, Hope Street's collaboration with Zho Theatre Co. and Unity Theatre; a unique retelling of Carlo Collodi’s 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'. |
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27th, 28th, 29th and 31st July and 1st August 2007 Venue: The Oratory, Liverpool |
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My Psychotic Heart
An extraordinary sound installation, this was an ear-opening journey through psychosis, created from a unique collaboration between artists and mental health service users. Engulfed by chaos, the visitor was taken on a journey to secret little places where compelling stories slowly unfolded. The venue symbolised the vast expanse of the human mind, a place of love, humour, joy and sometimes of fear and confusion. The collaboration between installation directors Andrea Earl and Kal Ross led to presentations of the event at the Oratory in Liverpool. |
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31st August to 2nd September 2007 Venue: The Saracen's Head, Halsall, Lancashire. |
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Lock Directed by John Fox, this two-month project culminated in a three-day outdoor celebration of the Liverpool/ Leeds Canal. Groups and individuals along the canal made films on the past, present, future and mythology of the canal, led by our professional team of musicians, film-makers and community artists. These films were integrated into a three-day celebration, involving performance, music, dancing, food and drink. |
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5th, 6th and 7th July 2007 Venue: Unity Theatre, Liverpool |
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Sugar & Spice... and things not so nice This was a multi-media performance commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Acts. The show looked at slavery in the 21st Century. Sugar & Spice was directed by Hilary Westlake. |
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