WHAT'S ON AT THE SHAKESPEARE NORTH PLAYHOUSE, PRESCOT
What's On at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Most Popular Shows and Events at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Alice in Wonderland
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Fri 22 Nov - Tue 31 Dec 2024
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Jul 2024
The Taming Of The 'Shrew'
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Wed 10 - Sat 13 Jul 2024
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 25 Jun - Tue 17 Dec 2024
What's On at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Becoming Othello - A Black Girl's Journey
The Cockpit Theatre
Saturday 27 April 2024
A personal, poignant and powerful story of perseverance, tragedy, triumph-and ultimately unconditional love. Debra Ann Byrd presents a tour-de-force journey of living memoir in Becoming Othello. This autobiographical solo show chronicles t...An Evening With Dross
The Studio
Saturday 27 April 2024
Join Liverpool's Art House witch and drag shapeshifter Dross for an evening of dark, queerly decadent cabaret, storytelling and physical comedy. Dross' signature blend of biography and fantasy will weave together a multimedia patchwork of d...Becoming Othello
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 27 April 2024
A personal, poignant and powerful story of perseverance, tragedy, triumph?and ultimately unconditional love. Debra Ann Byrd presents a tour-de-force journey of living memoir in Becoming Othello. This autobiographical solo show chronicles th...Shakespeare North: A Guided Tour
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 27 April - Tuesday 24 December 2024
Want to know more about why Shakespeare North Playhouse was built? Why in Prescot? Why it won ?Theatre Building of the Year 2023? at The Stage Awards? Look no further!On our Guided Tour through Shakespeare North Playhouse, you will be led t...Baby Bards
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 30 April - Tuesday 30 July 2024
Join our Learning & Engagement Team for a Baby Bards early years story and language session for pre school children aged 18 months to 4 years old. Introducing story, letters and phonics through readings and fun activities, your little ones ...The School for Scandal
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 30 April - Saturday 4 May 2024
GOSSIP NEVER GOES OUT OF FASHION. Sir Peter Teazle believes his young wife is sleeping with someone else. She isn?t. But she?s starting to think if her husband believes it, she may as well give it a go. After all, if you?re going to cause a...Shared Reading
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 2 May - Friday 28 June 2024
SHARED READING in association with The ReaderRelax, connect with people, share storiesJoin our discussion group to explore extracts from stories, plays and poetry, new and old. We meet on the First Floor Foyer, read, reflect and feel inspir...Shared Writing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 2 May 2024
Join our writing group to connect with people and feel inspired to create, with activities to spark ideas for storytelling, scripting and poetry. It?s a friendly space to meet regularly and share in the process together, with no pressure to...Drink and Draw
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 3 May 2024
Come along to our Drink & Draw!Meet new collaborators or catch up with old friends at an event filled with conversation, drawing, music, and drinks (drawing optional?)We will have drawing materials around the room so feel free to doodle, ma...Shakespeare North: Life Drawing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 29 June 2024
Join us for monthly life drawing sessions in different spaces across the venue. Due to popular demand, from February, this event will be hosted every two weeks!Each session will have a nude model to draw from in a variety of poses. The sess...Itch: Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Itch is our monthly spoken word night that takes place in our excellent Caf? Bar. It is an inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. If you are a performer and are looking for a performance opportunity get...Collaborator: A Work in Progress by Daniel Kitson
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 15 - Friday 17 May 2024
I dislike audience participation.?I think It?s creatively bankrupt, ethically questionable and if I see it mentioned in the blurb for a show, I will not attend due to moral objections and/or personal discomfort. Anyway.?I?ve written somethi...Roger McGough
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 24 May 2024
Roger McGough, the 'living proof of himself' and President of the Poetry Society, not only helped kickstart the musical careers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, but inspired hundreds, if not thousands, of young poets (well, quite a few) on th...Roger McGough: Alive and Gigging
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 24 May 2024
Is poetry the new Rock?n?Roll?... It always was!For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry. To celebrate the launch of his Collected Poems, Roger i...The Tempest
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 4 - Wednesday 5 June 2024
-Shakespeare?s last, and great, play is a triumphant compilation of intrigue, magic, and humour. Prospero, an exiled Duke with supernatural powers, creates a great storm which sees his enemies shipwrecked on his island. Magic abounds, plots...
Imaginarium Youth Theatre Festival - Prospero's Island and Ham-a-lot
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 June 2024
Imaginarium Youth Theatre takes on the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden this Summer!ACT ONE ? Prospero?s IslandDevised by Act One Youth Theatre (7-10 years)Directed by Pheobe Edmonds and Caitlin NewmanJoin us on a Shakespearean adventure on ...Imaginarium Youth Theatre Festival - R.I.P Mr Shakespeare
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 June 2024
Imaginarium Youth Theatre takes on the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden this Summer!ACT THREE ? RIP Mr ShakespeareWritten by Bev ClarkDirected by Julie Ashurst and Daniel OwenA One-Act comedy homage to Mr Shakespeare performed by Imaginarium...Twelfth Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 7 - Saturday 29 June 2024
Headlining the Cockpit Stage this summer, the brilliantly bold Not Too Tame return with an electrifying production of Twelfth Night, starring Les Dennis as Malvolio. The company that brought you ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? return with their...Julius Caesar
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 June 2024
Rome 44BC. Egotistical Emperor Julius Caesar is sweating (and it?s not just the heatwave). His liberal Senators are a stabbing pain in the backside. They?ve had enough!Rome is in chaos, trust in the government is weak and the emperor?s fate...Midsummer Night's Scream
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Step into the wilderness this summer, for tales of the woodland weird, unholy rites and ancient places of cosmic power! In the tradition of Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood, ArtsGroupie presents some bewitching tales that will prove sca...Bay Bryan: Songs & Stories from ‘The Meadow'
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 20 June 2024
Stripped down to the roots and performing solo, Bay Bryan transports us into the mesmerising alt-folk world of his concept album ?The Meadow'. Songs and storytelling intertwine to make for an intimate and immersive experience. As heard on B...The Merrymakers
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 21 June 2024
With music featuring in almost all of Shakespeare?s plays, it created an entertaining and vibrant means of storytelling to capture an Elizabethan audience. Join acclaimed performer and provocateur Jennifer Reid, and her invited guests, for ...Afternoon Opera: Solos & Soliloquies
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Monday 24 June 2024
A recital of exquisite Shakespearean opera and poetry by soprano Laura Hudson, pianist Jonathan Ellis and actor Trevor Fleming, as part of the 20th Annual Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts.?Prescot-born Laura has performed throughout t...Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Exhibition Centre
Tuesday 25 June - Tuesday 17 December 2024
Shakespeare North Playhouse's quarterly spoken word night is an inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. For Scratch we are looking for seasoned performers that are looking for opportunities to showcase t...No Coward Soul
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 26 June 2024
In the midst of a painfully amicable divorce, one woman strives to survive alone. Why must everything be so difficult???she cleverly and wittily explores what she perceives society is throwing at her????She is an expressive performer and he...The School of Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 June 2024
In the 16th century, The School Of Night was an underground sect of artists, thinkers, writers and spies, who some scholars believe wrote Shakespeare?s plays. Revived for the 21st century in 2005, this heretical troupe has risen to the chal...As You Like It
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 29 June 2024
Shakespeare meets the spirited heart of revelry, self-discovery, and transformation!The Boaty Theatre Company?s 90-minute adaptation of ?As You Like It? hurls headlong into an electrifying festival of freedom, love, and identity, set agains...Much Ado About Nothing - Imaginarium
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 4 - Saturday 6 July 2024
Imaginarium Young Shakespeare Company present William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing!It?s a comedy: Beatrice and Benedick exchange bright sparks of fiery wit. Dogberry and his bizarre police force mangle language and movement in their...The Taming Of The 'Shrew'
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 10 - Saturday 13 July 2024
Unseemly Women return in 2024 with their 6th annual Shakespeare, with an all female and non-binary cast. Step into a world of burlesque, clowns and cabaret; exploring one of Shakespeare's most talked-about comedies. A drunken patron (Sly) f...Lovestruck
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 July 2024
Lovestruck is a multi-location theatrical adventure, mixing live performance, escape room activities, and smartphone technology. Are you ready for love? Well look no further! We've been matching people like you for what feels like an eterni...
TAP-aoke Project
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 13 July 2024
Sole Rebel are bringing the noise, with a troupe of talented tap dancers alongside their band of live jazz musicians!This afternoon will entertain audiences of all ages from little ones to big ones! Music & dance to get everyone smiling & t...A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 July 2024
Join the HandleBards at Shakespeare North for a hilarious, high-octane production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream! Four young lovers find themselves lost in a magical forest, where the Fairy King and Queen are fighBng for the pos...In Bloom
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 July 2024
Experience a mesmerising dance performance with powerful imagery and unexpected twists taking you on an unforgettable journey into the unknown. Join us as a mysterious figure takes the stage, slowly bringing to life a surreal world, vivid a...Miss Nobodies
The Studio
Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 July 2024
A two-hander play produced by Black Liver which takes us through the history of the last 100 years in a shop in a Lancashire town. This funny, poignant and heart-warming story will resonate with all ages and will make you think about what t...Mary Celeste & The Beast of the Bowery
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 July 2024
On November 7th, 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York bound for Genoa... On December 4th, she was discovered adrift on the Atlantic Ocean just off the Azores Islands, with no crew and no obvious signs of disturbance, except for one...Silly Beggars
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 26 July 2024
Step into a world of laughter and hilarity at the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden for a new night of stand-up comedy, proudly presented by Silly Beggars!Brace yourself for an unforgettable evening filled with the wittiest and most eccentric...Shakespeare - But Just The Deaths
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 27 July 2024
IT'S THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE* *But Just The Deaths (and the gory bits too!)The Loons have set themselves a seemingly impossible task ? to perform every death scene and mentioned in all of Shakespeare?s Plays (as well as some extra...A Caravan Named Desire
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 30 July - Friday 2 August 2024
A Caravan Named Desire?is a two-hander, performed by married couple Alexander and Helen Millington who are trying to produce a play depicting the relationship between a sex worker and client. However, as Helen becomes aware of just how auto...Jennifer Reid: One Night In Prescot
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 1 August 2024
Folk is working class. Folk music has lost it?s way, and people have lost track of their geographical heritage. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues. She is a performer of nineteenth cen...The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 2 August 2024
?Wives may be merry, and yet honest too!??Sir John Falstaff, everyone?s favourite Shakespearean sleaze ball, has fallen on hard times. In order to fix his finances he plans to seduce the wives of two wealthy merchants. But, wise to his wily...The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 6 - Wednesday 7 August 2024
Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues ac...The Town Band of Bremen
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 13 - Wednesday 14 August 2024
The Town Band of Bremen follows the classic German tale of four farmyard animals; the donkey, the dog, the cat and the cockerel... Our story finds the animals at a loss when their beloved farmer has to let them go after the farm has been ro...Shake-Scene Shakespeare
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 August 2024
?This high-stakes immediacy is what makes [Shake-Scene?s] work really magical.? Viv Groskop, The Stage. Thu 15 Aug, 6:30pmSat 17 Aug, 2pmFri 16 Aug, 6:30pmSat 17 Aug, 6:30pmClassic stories, rollercoaster emotions, beautiful words and sponta...Shake-Scene Shakespeare Double Bill
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 August 2024
?This high-stakes immediacy is what makes [Shake-Scene?s] work really magical.? Viv Groskop, The Stage. Thu 15 Aug, 6:30pmSat 17 Aug, 2pmFri 16 Aug, 6:30pmSat 17 Aug, 6:30pmClassic stories, rollercoaster emotions, beautiful words and sponta...Angelica Sprocket's Pockets
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 August 2024
Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them...?Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket?s never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps...
Angelica Sprockets Pockets
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 August 2024
Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them...?Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket?s never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps...Alas Poor Yorick
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 22 - Saturday 24 August 2024
An entertaining excavation of work and political systems through the eyes of the gravediggers in Shakespeare?s Hamlet. Alas! Poor Yorick draws on David Graeber, Marx and popular culture to present a relentless critique of our institutional ...A Midsummer Night's Dream - 440 Theatre
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 27 - Wednesday 28 August 2024
Four Forty Theatre are back with a British Summertime Shakespeare! Performing A Midsummer Night's Dream in one night by only four actors in one hour!?This is an exceptionally special, hilarious, speedy tour of one of Shakespeare?s arguably ...Much Adogberry About Nothing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 29 - Saturday 31 August 2024
Prepare for a twist in the tale of Much Ado About Nothing!Forget Hero and Claudio, because this time it?s all about Dogberry, Verges, and the city watch. Directed by Matt Holt and brought to life by People Zoo Productions, witness a fresh p...Wine Tasting Evening
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 12 September - Thursday 14 November 2024
"Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people." - Henry VIII, Act I, Scene IVIndulge in the perfect pairing: Wine Tasting at Shakespeare North Playhouse!Raise your glass and immerse yourself in a world of flavours, as we samp...Most Popular Shows and Events at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Alice in Wonderland
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Fri 22 Nov - Tue 31 Dec 2024
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Jul 2024
The Taming Of The 'Shrew'
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Wed 10 - Sat 13 Jul 2024
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 25 Jun - Tue 17 Dec 2024
