New Series starts Wednesday 10th May, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Brecht, Venezuela, Russian Revolution… We begin a new series of workshops on Wednesday 10th May dedicated to ‘revolution’. We’ll have sessions looking at how some of the great playwrights have portrayed uprisings, revolutions, rebellions and class… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre – Revolutionary Theatre Workshops – Wed 10th May
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Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wednesday 3rd May – Electra and the Art of Dramatic Storytelling
Part two (but come along even if you never made the first one) of workshops looking at the House of Atreus myth. We’ll be looking at how the three giants of Greek theatre, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, each in their own unique way interpreted the same myth in creating one of the most dramatic female… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wednesday 3rd May – Electra and the Art of Dramatic Storytelling
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – 26th April – Electra & the Art of Dramatic Storytelling
A ‘mini-series’ of workshops beginning Wednesday 26th April, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, £3/£2 – all welcome… We are fortunate that the greats of Greek tragedy, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles all wrote plays using the myth of the ‘House of Atreus’ which tells the story of Clytemnestra’s slaying of her husband Agamemnon on… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – 26th April – Electra & the Art of Dramatic Storytelling
Burjesta Theatre Workshops & New Production – Wed 12th April
Burjesta Theatre Workshops + New Production starting Wednesday 12th April @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool 7pm, £3/£2 Starting next week we begin a new series of devising workshops which will lead into a production in June at the inaugural Liverpool Theatre Fringe Festival. We will be working on a ‘comic morality tale… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshops & New Production – Wed 12th April
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Russian Season – Aleksandr Blok’s ‘The Twelve’
Wednesday 15th March, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, Liverpool Our final workshop looking at the work of Russian playwrights is something a little bit different. We’ll be looking at Alexandr Blok’s ‘epic poem’, ‘The Twelve’ written in 1918 following the momentous events of the Russian Revolution. It’s an evocative narrative concerning twelve revolutionary ‘red… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Russian Season – Aleksandr Blok’s ‘The Twelve’
Workshop – 8th March – Russian Season – Maxim Gorky’s ‘Enemies’
Burjesta Theatre Workshops – Russian Season – Enemies by Maxim Gorky Wed 8th March, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool Socialist and revolutionary Maxim Gorky’s 1906 play, ‘Enemies’ is the subject of this week’s workshop (the penultimate one in our series on Russian playwrights). Inspired by the growing class conflict, strikes… Continue reading Workshop – 8th March – Russian Season – Maxim Gorky’s ‘Enemies’
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wed 1st March – Russian Season – 21st century British Orchard
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Russian Season – A Cherry Orchard for 21st Britain Wednesday 1st March, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope St, Liverpool This Wednesday we’ll be using Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’ as inspiration to see what ‘equivalent’ drama we can create for a 21st century British landscape. All welcome beginner or experienced.… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wed 1st March – Russian Season – 21st century British Orchard
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Wed 22nd Feb
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Russian Season – The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov Wednesday 22nd February, 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, £3/£2 This week we look at the last play by Anton Chekhov, written in 1903 the year before his death. It is an exquisite play and, we think, has a claim to… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Wed 22nd Feb
Workshop – 15th Feb – Russian Season – Tolstoy’s ‘Power of Darkness’
Burjesta Theatre – Russian Season – The Power of Darkness – Tolstoy Wednesday 15th February @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, 7pm, £3/£2 Next week’s workshop will be looking at Tolstoy’s startlingly dark ‘suspense’ play on the poverty and misery of the Russian peasantry towards the end of the 19th century. Lenin called Tolstoy ‘the… Continue reading Workshop – 15th Feb – Russian Season – Tolstoy’s ‘Power of Darkness’
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Tolstoy – 8th Feb
Burjesta Theatre Workshop – this Wednesday 8th February – Russian Season – Tolstoy’s ‘The First Distiller’ 7pm Casa Bar Liverpool, Hope Street This week, following on from last week’s session, we’ll be using Tolstoy’s comic morality tale ‘The First Distiller’ as our inspiration for coming up with a morality tale for 21st century Britain.… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Tolstoy – 8th Feb