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Author Archives: Julian Bond
Burjesta Theatre Xmas Workshop
Wednesday 19th December, 7pm
The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool
You are all warmly invited to come along to our Xmas workshop to end the year in high spirits. Led by Burjesta Artistic Director Mikyla Durkan, we can promise you fun, games, the surreal, general silliness and competitions…all welcome whether you’ve been a regular or not…
And if you can’t make the workshop but fancy catching up in the bar afterwards come along for about 9pm. The workshop itself costs £3/£2
Merry Xmas from Burjesta
Audition Notice – Wed 14th November, 6pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool
A reminder that next week we will be holding auditions for our next production, Punch and Judy, an adult only adaptation using actors not puppets. See home page for all audition requirements.
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – No workshop planned
Burjesta Workshop – Superstructure & The Matrix ‘Brecht, Marx and Dialectical Theatre’ Wed, 24th Oct, 6pm
@ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool
*Please note the earlier start time of 6pm.
This week we look at a key concept of Marxism, ‘base and superstructure’ and its relevance to Brechtian theatre. We’ll delve into it more by looking at extracts from ‘The Matrix’, the cyberpunk film from the Wachowskis, which exposes elements of ‘superstructure’ in a populist manner.
As this is the final workshop of the series we’ll finish with an overview of Brecht’s theatre, his plays and his theoretical writings asking what influence he has had on modern theatre practice.
All welcome beginner or experienced – £3/£2
Burjesta Workshop – Coriolanus ‘Brecht, Marx and Dialectical Theatre’ Wed 17th Oct
@ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, 7pm
This week we look at Brecht’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, ‘Coriolanus’ which deals with imperialism and class war, subjects of great importance to Brecht.
All welcome from beginner to experienced actor. Each session costs £3/£2
(Image is from the 1950s Brecht adaptation, Berlin)
Audition Notice – Punch and Judy – Burjesta Theatre Wed 14th November
Burjesta Workshops – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre 7pm, Wed 10th October – Good Person of Szechuan
Burjesta Workshop – Brecht, Marx & Dialectical Theatre Wed 3rd October – Good Person of Szechuan
@ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, 7pm, £3/£2
This week we will be looking at and performing extracts from The Good Person of Szechuan – you can read an online version here. We’ll be focusing on scenes 1 and 2:
http://www.socialiststories.com/liberate/The%20Good%20Person%20of%20Szechuan.pdf
All welcome beginner or experienced actor
Workshop 26th September Cancelled
Burjesta Theatre Workshop is cancelled tonight due to the workshop leader being unwell. Workshops will resume next Wednesday 3rd October.