Author: Julian Bond

Burjesta Theatre Workshops – There are no workshops planned until Wednesday 25th July when we begin a new series, ‘Brecht and Dialectical Theatre’.   Regards Burjesta  

Burjesta Theatre Workshop –   There is no workshop this week due to an external hire. The next workshop will be on 27th June looking at Berthold Brecht’s ‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’.

7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, £3/£2 ‘Great Dramatists and Great Drama’ series ‘Forget all I said…there wasn’t a word of truth in it’ This Wednesday we look at Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, ‘Waiting for Godot’, written in 1949. A meditation by two tramps on the meaning(lessness) of life, culture and history with knockabout… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Waiting for Godot Wed 13th June

7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, £3/£2 ‘Great Dramatists & Great Drama’ Series ‘Sure, he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons’ This week we’ll be looking at extracts from one of Arthur Miller’s lesser-known plays, ‘All My Sons’ which tells the story of faulty parts that are… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshops – All My Sons, Arthur Miller  Wed 6th June

The Casa, Hope St, L’pool, 7pm, £3/£2 Great Dramatists and Great Drama Series “I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er” This week we look at one of Shakespeare’s’ most dynamic of plays, Macbeth. We’ll be looking at and acting out extracts… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Macbeth, Shakespeare –  Wed 31st May

‘Great Dramatists and Great Drama’ Series @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool “Alas! Alas! Alas! Ilium is ablaze; the fire consumes the citadel, the roofs of our city, the tops of the walls!” This week we will be studying and acting out elements of Euripides remarkable play, ‘The Trojan Women’ with a host of characters… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – The Trojan Women, Euripides – 7pm, Wednesday 23rd May

‘Great Dramatists & Great Drama’, £3/£2 7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.” In this week’s session we look at the greatest of all Greek dramas, Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus the King’, which Aristotle thought best exemplified what tragedy should be. It tells the terrible story of the… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Oedipus the King, Sophocles Wednesday 16th May

‘Great Dramatists & Great Drama’ Workshops @ The Casa, Hope St, L’pool ‘the dead are killing the living’ This week we begin a new series of workshops with ‘The Oresteia’ by the Greek playwright, Aeschylus. It is the only existing trilogy from the classical Greek period, one of the earliest plays in the history of… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre – The Oresteia, Aeschylus: Wednesday 9th May, 7pm

Burjesta Theatre – Great Dramatists & Great Drama From Ancient Greece to Modern Theatre… New series of workshops @ The Casa, starts Wednesday, 9th May, and then each Wednesday following. Open to all £3/£2 per session

The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool This Wednesday will be dedicated to getting our spring production up and running. It is the culmination of a series of devising workshops that were run earlier this year looking at the housing crisis in Britain today. We will be finalizing our planning and plotting the story. Rehearsals will begin… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Spring Production – Planning and Story-boarding Session 4th April, 7pm