PROJECT
Change in a Box is a creative kit for 13-19 year olds. It includes creative challenges, inspiring stories, and advice for being more active in your community.
One hundred young people in Lancaster will receive a box for free. We are also seeking young Box Developers to help guide the look, feel, and content of Change in a Box.
Supported by:
Lancashire Youth Challenge
The Culture Co-Op
Curious Minds
Lancaster University
PODCASTS
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, over 30 creatives from across the UK helped us to bring the outside in during lockdown.
Daily poetry readings gave us moments of calm, and a weekly podcast shed light on the challenges and opportunities facing the creative community.
FESTIVAL
Heritage on the Dock celebrated the rich history of Royal Albert Dock Liverpool with a festival of walks, talks, workshops and live music.
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has a unique and undiscovered narrative that has played a central role in the ebbs and flows of Liverpool's own fortunes. This festival, project managed by Theatre in the Rough, discovered the exciting impact of the Dock's culture and history.
Produced by:
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Project Managed by:
Theatre in the Rough Festival
RADIOMONTAGE
Six half-hour acoustic films that together tell a tale of the Sefton coast.
Inspired by the Danish and German genre of Radiomontage, these documentaries explore The Litherland Running Man, spiritualism in Formby, 24 hours in Southport, the value of public art in Sefton, our natural environment, and the paranormal.
Supported by:
Arts Council England
The Hemby Trust
SHORT FILM
Five short films on the history of childhood. Showing in The Atkinson in Southport from June 2015. Available to watch online now.
A co-production with The Atkinson
The Atkinson
Lord Street, Southport, PR8 1DB
Free Entry
Supported by:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The PH Holt Foundation
AUDIO DRAMA
LUSITANIA: THE WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY, PT.1
A series of original audio plays charting Liverpool's relationship with the tragic liner. Created in association with Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Toured the North West in a bespoke listening station from summer 2014 — summer 2015.
Available to listen to online now.
Supported by:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
EXHIBITION
LUSITANIA: THE WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY, PT.2
As part of our wider Lusitania project, we created five audio pieces to accompany Merseyside Maritime Museum's new exhibition, Lusitania: life, loss, legacy.
They reanimate five of the collection's highlights and, by doing so, reclaim the voices of those touched by Lucy's story.
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ
Free Entry
Supported by:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
LIVE THEATRE
A theatre-in-education play commemorating the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
The piece hears from a returning soldier as he follows the development of the town of Waterloo in Liverpool from 1816 onwards.
Crosby Library
Free Entry
Commissioned by:
Sefton Libraries Service
FEST 2012
2012 marked the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic — a liner with an enduring relationship to its home port of Liverpool.
Theatre in the Rough presented a 5-day festival of THEATRE, LIVE MUSIC, ART, AUTHORS' TALKS and an HISTORICAL EXHIBITION, all created locally, to commemorate the anniversary.
Events took place from 3 — 7 July, attracting over 1,500 visitors.
Supported by:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Arts Council England
The Unity Theatre Trust
FEST 2011
From Dark Age enigma to the dare-devil pioneers of early aviation, two nights of bold new writing brought the past tearing into the present.
The Theatre in the Rough Festival 2011 took place on 1 — 2 April at Unity Theatre Liverpool. An accompanying exhibition also ran at Southport's Botanic Gardens Museum. Events drew over 19,500 visitors.
Supported by:
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Express Sefton
FEST 2009
The Theatre in the Rough Festival 2009 staged two nights of explosive, poetic and comedic new work by young people from across Greater Merseyside.
From the idea of the redemption of ambition on a Merseyrail train halted by a suicide, to a comedic tour of Sefton written entirely in Shakespearean rhyming couplets, these plays were diverse, surprising and challenging.
Theatre in the Rough 2009 took place on 19 — 20 May at the Southport Arts Centre.
Supported by:
The National Lottery through Awards for All
Express Sefton
