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
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
Alice in Wonderland
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Fri 22 Nov - Tue 31 Dec 2024
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 24 Sep - Tue 17 Dec 2024
What's On at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
A Lovely Poetry Festival Slam
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 2 July 2024
A Lovely Word Poetry Slam is back at Shakespeare North Playhouse for its second year as part of A Lovely Poetry Festival 2024!This Slam event brings together some of the best spoken word artists from across Liverpool and the Northwest to co...Baby Bards
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 2 - 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 ...Chatterbox
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 2 July 2024
As a Pakistani girl in primary school in Glasgow in the 1970s, Lubna was labeled ?stupid? because she couldn?t speak English. Well, if that?s what you call what they speak in Glasgow... This humorous and touching semi-autobiographical one-w...Shakespeare North: A Guided Tour
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 2 July - 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...Beach Babe
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 3 July 2024
An existential crisis with your partner is as fun as it sounds...A couple finds themselves stranded on a melancholy beach. They didn?t walk there; they didn?t drive. It was almost as if they closed their eyes and woke up there. Why a beach?...Malion
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 4 July 2024
Malion, a sculptor, is presenting his latest work to his male friends, a statue of the most beautiful woman in creation... After labouring over the statue, searching for love?s representation inside a rock, Malion rejoices in his achievemen...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...Stage by Stage Tour - Theatres of Merseyside
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 4 - Friday 19 July 2024
Join us for a journey through Merseyside's rich theatrical history! Explore everything from the original Prescot Playhouse built in the 1590s to our very own Shakespeare North Playhouse opened in 2022, and much more in between! From riots t...Roger McGough
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 5 July 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...Stuffed
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 5 July 2024
This is a show about food banks. This is not a show about food. This is about the bad stuff. This is an emergency. This is a clowning show. Multi award winners Ugly Bucket present a blazing inferno of physicality, clown, original music, and...An Evening with Cathy Tyson
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 6 July 2024
It's time for the next of our "Evening With" events!We?re thrilled that our next interviewee will be one of Liverpool?s living legends, Cathy Tyson. Cathy?s break-out performance as Simone in Mona Lisa earned her multiple nominations, inclu...Finding Splashman
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 6 July 2024
Join Aunty Ginger on a mission to find her Splashman!Based on a true story, cum along for songs, filthy stand-up comedy, sketches, a seminar in advanced glory-hole etiquette and maybe, just maybe, we will together find, her Splashman. Not f...Lash
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 6 July 2024
"The perfect late-night Fringe show, part gig and part theatre, but wholly entertaining!"Dodgy dealers, even dodgier workmates, and the local hard nuts merge into a toxic mix that assaults the senses?Part gig, part theatre,?LASH?takes us on...Big Fish
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 9 July 2024
She's a big fish in a small pond... and she bloody loves it!Big Fish is Stephanie Bradshaw?s debut stand-up show, inspired by her life as an attention-seeking (anxious, delicate, shy) mega diva, based in the small rural town of Keswick, Cum...Itch: Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 9 July - Tuesday 13 August 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...
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...To Watch A Man Eat
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 10 July 2024
In a world precariously balanced by excess at the top and slim pickings at the bottom, who is truly starved?To Watch a Man Eat is a play about appetite: hunger for money, for sex, for power, for control over your own life? or someone else?s...Edy Hurst's Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 11 July 2024
Hark! And Boo! Recent revelations hath shone a torch upon the ancestry of Edy Hurst! What visions await in our dark voyage? And why are the Vengaboys here?Supported by The Lowry and Arts Council England. Best Comedy Show nominee, Buxton Fri...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...Pillock
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 12 July 2024
Pillock wants to trust his gut, but his can't even handle a Muller Corner... Pillock has ADHD. His brain works faster than his bowel when he?s had a Babybel, and he?s lactose intolerant. He?s trying to keep his head above water, but he?s dr...Is This Thing On?
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 13 July 2024
An electric new piece of devised theatre written by Megan Keaveny and Ellie Campbell (MissMatch), co-produced by So La Flair Theatre and MissMatch. What's better, sad songs or sh*tty poetry? Meet flatmates Mary and Liz, one a musician and t...Shakespeare North: Life Drawing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 13 July - Saturday 14 December 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...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...Macbeth
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 24 - Thursday 25 July 2024
Something wicked this way comes... Multi-award-winning A Place for Us Theatre Company are delighted to return to Shakespeare North Playhouse this July with a powerful and visceral production of Macbeth. This abridged, acclaimed and accessib...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...Rumplestiltskin
Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden
Saturday 3 August 2024
A long time ago, in a faraway land, there was a greedy King, a foolish Miller and a clever seamstress called Betsy... Although Betsy is clever, she can't turn straw into gold like the King demands - that is until Rumpelstiltskin arrives bri...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...Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 13 September - Saturday 5 October 2024
?Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake - it is everything except what it is.?Against all odds, a young couple fall in love. An intense, vibrant love that burns and ignites a powder keg wi...
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Exhibition Centre
Tuesday 24 September - 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...Love It If We Beat Them
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 October 2024
What is power without principle? And what are principles without power? It's Spring 1996, Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United are riding high in the Premier League and Tony Blair's New Labour are gathering pace. Hope is in the air, and victory ...Alice in Wonderland
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 22 November - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Follow the White Rabbit into the Cockpit Theatre next Christmas and be welcomed back to Wonderland! Everything is as Alice remembered... or is it? Let Shakespeare North whisk you away to Wonderland with this marvellously whimsical festive t...How to get to the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Most Popular Shows and Events at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
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
Alice in Wonderland
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Fri 22 Nov - Tue 31 Dec 2024
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tue 24 Sep - Tue 17 Dec 2024
