Public Access Workshop classes
from 13th February 2010 

Free taster session
Monday 8th February
6pm

• Do you ever visit the theatre and think ‘I wish I could do that’?
• Would you like to speak with more confidence in public?
• Do your inhibitions ever hold you back?

If you answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then the new season of workshops
from Lodestar Theatre Company, the producers of The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival are for you.

Acting for Everyone
Tuesdays from 16th February 6pm – 8pm

No experience necessary – all you need is a passion for performance. You will learn how  to build a character,  take control of your body and voice and develop your own ‘method’. Along the way you will receive regular,  in-depth feedback, advice and direction from Lodestar’s key creative team.

Shakespeare for Everyone
Mondays from 15th February 6pm – 8pm

If you would like to develop your confidence, improve your speaking-voice or simply learn more about  Shakespeare  then  this course  is  for  you. Using entirely practical methods you can learn how verse works, how to approach it in performance and a whole  range  of  practical  techniques  designed  to make  performing  Shakespeare  easy and fun.

Impro’ for Everyone
Saturdays from 13th February 11am – 1pm

This class is for anyone who would like to lose their inhibitions, be more spontaneous or  improve  their confidence  in an entirely  fear-free environment.  Starting with  the simplest games, you will quickly and effortlessly develop your  skills until before you know it, you will be improvising the blues, inventing terrible jokes – which get laughs!

Any single session £15
Ten sessions (one course) for £125 (£12.50 / session)
Twenty sessions (two courses) £200 (£10.00 / session)
Thirty sessions (all three courses) for £250 (£7.50 / session)

Places limited to 20 per session.

All sessions will be held at the Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.

To take part please email learning@lodestartheatrecompany.co.uk  or call CUC Box Office 0151 7083529

In honour of the Special Citizen’s Award to be given to Bill Shankly by the City of Liverpool (see coming press for details)

The Shankly Show
by Andrew Sherlock

Thursday 17-Friday 18 December 2009 @ 8pm

Special Offer:
£10 off all tickets for Members of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce*

To take advantage of this offer, book online at www.echoarena.com and enter ‘CITIZEN’ in the promotional code box, or call the box office on 0844 8000 400 and quote ‘citizen offer’.

For his 50th Anniversary of Bill Shankly’s first game with LFC,  The Shankly Show is offering a massive £10 discount off all tickets for the performance on Thursday 17 December @ 8pm if booked before 14th December.  Quote ref: ‘CITIZEN’ in Promo Code Box

Following its sell-out success at The Olympia and Royal Court theatres in 2008, the epic show about the life of Liverpool Football Club’s most famous manager is back by popular demand. With 45 minutes each way, The Shankly Show combines an intimate theatrical performance with big screen action featuring original footage, photos and graphics displayed on huge video screens. Shankly is played by critically acclaimed Scottish actor Alexander ‘Sandy’ West, who produces an extraordinary interpretation of the late, great Reds boss.

The Shankly Show is an iconic play about an iconic Liverpool manager and takes place in the state-of-the-art Auditorium at the BT Convention Centre at the Echo Arena.  It will show for two special performances only on Thursday December 17 and Friday 18 at 8pm.

With special guests each night this is described as ‘a must-see special event for all true Liverpool, football and live theatre fans’, The Shankly Show will make a unique and fitting tribute about the life of a true Liverpool legend

 Auditorium at BT Convention Centre

Dates: Thursday 17-Friday 18 December 2009 @ 8pm

Tickets: £25.00 and £35.00

Groups 10+: 1 in 10 goes free

VIP dinner and drinks package available

Liverpool Echo Arena Box Office:  0844 8000 400, in person at the Liverpool Echo Arena or online at

 www.echoarena.com/whats_on/shankly_show.asp

*Offer not available on tickets already booked.  Booking and handling fees apply.

Liverpool’s Lodestar Theatre Company are complimenting their recent successful production of ‘Hamlet’ with Tom Stoppard’s most famous work, ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’

Stoppard’s extraordinary play sees the events of Hamlet through the eyes of two minor characters but it soon becomes horribly clear that they are the unwilling protagonists of their own tragedy. They stumble haplessly, searching desperately for a glimmer of meaning in the terrifying events that overwhelm them.

In turns hilarious and tragic, this production of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead has been designed as the perfect second half of this year’s double bill, performed with wit and passion in Liverpool’s most exciting new performance space – NOVAS contemporary Urban Centre.

Approximate length including 20 minute interval: 2 hours 20 minutes.

The show runs until 13 September and we seriously recommend it.

Get tickets for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival 2009 by clicking here now