In-Person Workshops Are Back!

After over two years we’re very excited that our in-person workshops are back in action! Starting from 1st March, we are meeting every Tuesday evening 7-9PM at St Michael in the City on Upper Pitt Street, L1 5BD. Hooray!

All are welcome to come along and join – new members of all abilities from beginners to drama students to professionals. – and each one is separate, so you do not need to come to a series, but pick and choose as and when you like. Also they continue alongside performance rehearsals, which occur on a different night.  So if you’ve never tried drama before, or want to get back into the swing of things, now is the ideal time to come along and try it out. Entry fee is £3 waged, £2 unwaged and no pre-booking is required. 

See you at one soon!

 

Short but Sweet: Zoom Edition

Network are looking for writers and directors to take part in ‘Short but Sweet: Zoom Edition’, an evening of new writing being showcased in March 2021. We’re looking for submissions written to be performed on Zoom with a runtime of 15-20 minutes.

If you are a writer please email a script to ljbstagemanager@gmail.com by 18th January.

If you are a director please email ljbstagemanager@gmail.com to express your interest by 18th January. You will be contacted once the scripts have been selected by the committee.

If you would like to perform in ‘Short but Sweet: Zoom Edition’, please keep an eye out as audition dates will be posted soon.

Summer Production 2019

Liverpool Network Theatre Group Presents

William Shakespeare’s
As You Like It

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.’

Come and see Liverpool Network Theatre Group at play in As You Like It, one of the world’s all-time favourite comedies!

Follow Rosalind and Celia into the Forest of Arden; finding new and not-so-new friends; making a new life…or are they just cunningly re-creating their old ones? Pining poets, wise and silly shepherds, competing clowns, whirlwind romances…where will it all lead?

Fast-paced, funny, and suitable for all the family, this is summer Shakespeare at its sunniest, staged in some of Liverpool’s loveliest locations. We are performing at the following venues:

Waterloo Marine Gardens, 5th July: 7:30pm
Liverpool Central Library, 6th July: 7:30pm
Sudley House, 7th July: 1pm
Lowlands, West Derby, 12th July: 7:30pm
Reynolds Park, 13th July: 2pm
Reynolds Park, 14th July: 2pm

Tickets available here.

(Please note: if coming to the Waterloo or Sudley performances, it is wise to bring your own seating!)

Short but Sweet Fringe Edition

Our Spring Production is returning on 14th June 2019, at The Casa.

Two short pieces of new writing directed by new directors working with a mentor, and a special preview of our summer show, William Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Hangman by Ian Gray – A dark story exploring a teenager’s secret. Directed by Julie Hills
On the Shore by Tim Hemmings – A political comedy about the last three dodos on Earth. Directed by Beth Easton.
Preview of As You Like It – Special preview of our summer production touring various venues in Liverpool in July 2019. Directed by Frank Kennedy.

Please come along to see some wonderful new theatre from local writers alongside classic scenes from the Bard’s beloved summer comedy.

Tickets are £5 and are available to buy here.

Network News: February

Hello Networkers!

We hope you had a lovely January and your February has started well.

We would like to thank everyone who came along and saw A Doll’s House for their ongoing support and lovely feedback. We really hope you enjoyed the show.

We now have lots more lovely stuff coming up for you to get involved in.

Spring Show:

This year we will not be putting on a full-length spring show, but fret not! Instead we would like to put on a fun-filled evening of shorts in April/May (TBC).

This is a great opportunity for those who would like to be involved with a show but don’t have the time to commit to a full-length production or if you would like the opportunity to gain experience.

We are looking for short plays (15 to 30 minutes) or entertaining scenes from longer works that are royalty free – so either writers who have been dead for longer than 70 years or new writers willing to donate their work.

If you would like to be involved, please get in touch with your ideas, whether it’s something you have written, would like to direct or perform in or even just something you’d like to see done. After we have selected our shows we will have open auditions as usual so plenty of chances to get involved.

Liverpool Fringe Festival:

The Liverpool Fringe Festival is also coming up (first two weeks of June). They would love for Networkers to get involved so if you are interested please contact them at info@liverpoolfringe.co.uk. Our very own Mark Kyle Cooper will be organising an open mic fundraiser for the Liverpool Fringe, so if you have a turn you would like to do, please contact him for more info.

Future Proposals:

Finally, is there a show you would like to do with us? We are now accepting proposals for any point in the future, so if there’s something you’d like us to consider for this autumn, or any point at all next year, or even the year after(!), please send us your proposal. If you would like to provide us with an outline proposal before sending the full details that’s absolutely fine too.

Any proposals received will be considered at the following Committee meeting. Our next meeting is on 25 February.

Coming soon – news of our always popular spring quiz and exciting 2019 summer production!

If you have any questions about any of the above or anything else at all, please come along to one of our workshops (every Tuesday, 7pm, 5th floor of the Tempest Building (above HUS) on Tithebarn Street), contact a member of the Committee; that’s Donna Day (Chair), James Gray, Julie Hills, Frank Kennedy, Sonia Chapman, Liana Jane Bourne, Peter Sebastian or Mark Kyle Cooper.

Julius Caesar Audition date announced

Our Summer Show starts here, looking for some great actors to play various roles in Shakespeare’s classic Julius Caesar. It is very likely that each actor will play two roles. Roles are unisex.. Men and women can play any role. A male Calpurnia or a female Cassius is perfectly fine. To prepare for the audition, we would like all candidates to learn the following lines. (You can still read from script, which will be handed out on the day)

“Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;
I never thought him worse.
Tell him, so please him come unto this place,
He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour
Depart untouch’d”

It’s likely that we will do some Status group work and if we have time, we will fit in Crowd work and some improv

Really looking forward to seeing some quality performances and having some fun.

Thanks, see you on the 8th ???

Summer Show announcement

Liverpool Network Theatre are pleased to announce their Summer 2018 production will be Julius Caesar. Directed by Sean Gaffney, with the assistance of Rob Steele, and Mark Davoren as Producer, the show is expected to be one of the most successful to date.

Following the sell-out performances of their most recent show, No Exit, staged at The Casa in February, Julius Caesar will be performed at five venues around the city in June and July.

Asked recently about his initial plans, Gaffney said: ‘We are very excited to be able to bring this classic Shakespearean historical piece to Liverpool as it not only commentates on a world changing event, but also reflects the current political landscape, particularly in America, and closer to home with Brexit.

‘So many themes run through this play: envy; jealousy; ambition; honour; and patriotism – something for everyone to feast on.’

Shakespeare’s 21st play – written in 1599 – shows that people are swayed by a good orator but not always for what is good, as good and bad, right and wrong, are put on trial in the hard-hitting historical play that is…

JULIUS CAESAR

The details:

Prior to Auditions, we will be holding a Shakespeare workshop on Tuesday 20th February at 7pm. Hope Street Limited above Specsavers on Lord St (4th floor) Entrance lies between MacDonald’s and Specsavers.

Auditions will also be held at Hope Street Performers, 4th Floor, Lord Street Liverpool (Above Specsavers) on 8th March 2018, 7pm Rehearsals will start later in March. Performances will be staged as follows: Waterloo Gardens Friday 29th June, Reynolds Park Saturday 30th June, Reynolds Park Sunday 1st July, Lowlands Friday 6th July, Masonic Theatre (Hope Street) 7th July, Sudley House 8th July, Central Library 14th July

Autumn play Director’s pitch

Network are staging No Exit this week (7th 8th 9th February) and we are organising our Summer production of Julius Caesar in July. We are now looking to take pitches for a possible Autumn play and would welcome ideas from anyone interested in directing or producing a particular work. Please respond in the first instance with your idea to liverpoolnetworktheatre@gmail.com

Call for proposals: Network autumn play 2016

BIG NEWS TIME! Rehearsals may be well underway for Merchant of Venice (seriously, I have sneaked into a rehearsal and it’s going to be terrific!! -Will), but LNTG has not got to its current position by resting on its laurels, so listen up!

We are now taking proposals for our autumn show. Dates and venue have yet to be finalised, but we reckon November will be the most likely option.

Have you directed for us before? Directed for somebody else? Or never done anything like this, but fancy a challenge? Everybody is welcome to propose a show, so if you are interested, please send us an e-mail to liverpoolnetworktheatre@gmail.com containing the following:

– details of the play and ideas about staging (are there any particular difficulties you envisage? What kind of venue are you looking for?)
– your team: a director and production manager as a minimum, but feel free to mention any stage managers, techies, marketing team you want to involve
– details of the cast. It is always nice to have a decent sized cast to get people involved and be aware of gender breakdown (or be willing to cross-cast). So Twelve Angry Men may have to become Twelve Angry Non-Gender Specific Persons
– any other useful information (why would this be a suitable production for LNTG?)

The initial deadline for proposals is June 10th, so get cracking and feel free to e-mail us or contact Will O’Neill or Sandra Tsch via Facebook if you have any questions.

Good luck!

Your Network Comms team x