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Thu 22 Sep, 2022 - Sat 22 Oct, 2022

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Fri 19 – Sun 21 August

Serious Nonsense Festival

Three days of incredible street theatre, live music, comedy and family entertainment.

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Sat 27 – Sun 28 August

The Importance of Being Earnest

The entirety of Oscar Wilde’s classic play of manners, affairs and handbags being performed by just two, rather dashing, entertainers.

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Tue 30 August – Sat 3 September

Much Ado About Nothing

Grab a drink, and let Unseemly Women transport you on a wild journey of whispers, banter, plots and schemes.

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Fri 9 – Sat 10 September

As You Write It

Putting young female writers and their characters centre stage, with a refreshing take on identity and being who you want to be.

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Sat 17 – Sun 18 September

The Incomplete Works of Shakespeare

A completely improvised Shakespeare play with your chance to take part. Interactive, family-friendly, and suitable for all ages.

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Thu 22 September – Sat 22 October

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A riotous ride through the forest at night, for a tale of wild weddings, mistaken identity and a staging of Shakespeare’s best known comedy where not everything is as rosy as it seems.

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Sat 24 – Sun 25 September

Romeo and Juliet

Music, mayhem and more costume changes than you can shake a spear at.

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Fri 30 September – Sat 1 October

Half Measures

Two women in crisis, five centuries apart. Scenes from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure are set against dramatic episodes located in Liverpool, today.

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Tue 18 – Wed 19 October

Forgotten Voices

The remarkable real-life story of Eva Moorhead Kadalie, widow of South Africa’s first black national trade union leader.

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Wed 2 – Sat 5 November

Strange Tale

A brand new comic play that explores Shakespeare’s links to Prescot through a time-travelling adventure that blows apart the myths, the man and the missing years.

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Fri 25 November – Sat 7 January

A Christmas Carol

A slightly bonkers, fast and furious retelling of this Christmas classic with a distinctly Knowsley feel.

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Sat 26 – Sun 27 November

The Twelfth Night Trilogy

The Twelfth Night Trilogy brings you three plays in one. Inspired by Shakespeare , three characters who would be recognisable in Elizabethan England as they are today.

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