Author: Julian Bond

Here’s a review of Marx in Soho – http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/culture/3154-mi01102013 which is coming to Liverpool for one night only on Saturday 20th June, 8pm. Tickets are £8/£6 – to reserve phone 07913 449 396   Howard Zinn’s play has Marx fighting in heaven for the right to return to Soho (unfortunately he ends up in New York… Continue reading Review of Marx in Soho – coming to The Casa, Saturday 20th June

Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Storytelling Directions Tonight’s workshop is on the subject – ‘What’s at Stake?’ We’ll be looking at and asking participants to answer the question ‘what make’s for great drama?’, ‘what gets an audience to come in the first place?’, and ‘what keeps them riveted in the time they’re there?’. We’ll be asking… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – 17th June, What’s at Stake

Change of Programming: Next week’s workshop subject has been changed and will be on – ‘What’s at Stake?’ We’ll be looking at and asking participants to answer the question ‘what make’s for great drama?’, ‘what gets an audience to come in the first place?’, and ‘what keeps them riveted in the time they’re there?’. We’ll… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop 17th June – Storytelling Directions – ‘What’s at Stake?’

A reminder that we’re supporting this touring production of Howard Zinn’s acclaimed play imagining Karl Marx returning to earth to face his critics.  It received a 4 star review in the Morning Star. You can see it on Saturday 20th June at The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool. Reserve tickets on 07913 449 396 regards Burjesta

Burjesta Theatre Workshops – Storytelling Directions Wednesday 10th and Wednesday 17th June – Wednesday 10th – ‘Irony and Awareness’ This Wednesday we’ll be using Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’ as our inspiration. Aristotle considered it to be the most perfect tragedy an assessment we wouldn’t disagree with. We’ll be looking at how Sophocles used different levels of… Continue reading Burjesta Workshops 10th June – Oedipus Rex, Irony & Awareness ; 17th June Medea and withholding the hero

Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Storytelling Directions This coming Wednesday we continue our series of workshops looking at the art of storytelling and ways of directing using the classic 1950 Japanese film Rashomon as our inspiration.  We had intended to do this last week but got carried away in a discussion about our favourite stories! Rashomon… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – 3rd June – Rashomon (Again!)

We’re promoting this touring show – pls support ‘Marx in Soho’ – A play by Howard Zinn ‘engaging and entertaining – a rewarding theatrical experience’ – **** stars Morning Star Saturday 20th June, 8pm The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ £8/£6 – to reserve tickets phone 07913 449 396 or pay on the door… Continue reading Marx in Soho – June 20th – The Casa

This coming Wednesday we continue our series of workshops looking at the art of storytelling and ways of directing using the classic 1950 Japanese film Rashomon as our inspiration. Rashomon tells the story of a samurai who has been killed and his wife who has been raped by a bandit. However as the different witnesses… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – 27th May – Storytelling Directions – Rashomon

Burjesta Theatre Workshop Cancelled – The intended workshop for tomorrow, Wednesday 20th May has had to be cancelled. The workshops will resume next week on 27th May. regards burjesta

This week we continue are ‘dual purpose’ workshops looking at the storytelling genius of Dostoyevsky’s most famous work ‘Crime & Punishment’ in the form of a stage adaptation. A near contemporary of Dickens, Dostoyevksy similarly shows the poverty and misery of Russia’s 19th century capital Petersburg with a newly industrialised peasantry coming to terms with… Continue reading Storytelling Directions – 13th May – Crime & Punishment