FESTIVAL
Thursday 8 — Friday 9 September 2016
Heritage on the Dock celebrated the rich history of Albert Dock with two days of free walks, talks, workshops and live music.
Albert Dock has a unique and undiscovered narrative that has played a central role in the ebbs and flows of Liverpool’s own fortunes. This festival, curated by Theatre in the Rough, discovered the exciting impact of the Dock’s culture and history.
Produced by:
Albert Dock Liverpool
The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund
Curated by:
Theatre in the Rough Festival
LIVE THEATRE
September 2016
Once powerful in his own country — then overthrown by his brother Antonio — Prospero finds himself stranded on 'The Island', a migrant camp in 2020.
Set against a backdrop of mass migration and political corruption, fragments of Verbatim Journalism punctuate Shakespeare's original scenes.
Produced by:
Untold Theatre + Yellowbelly Theatre
ARTS CENTRE
OPEN is a new arts centre for Waterloo.
A place to Make, a place to Perform, a place to Learn, and a place to Deliver.
Find out more, and how to get involved.
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Currently taking artists and organisation enquiries and bookings.
In association with:
Waterloo Arts and Community Association
RADIOMONTAGE
From October 2015
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
EXHIBITION
From Summer 2015
As part of our wider Lusitania project, we have created five audio pieces to accompany Merseyside Maritime Museum's new exhibition, Lusitania: life, loss, legacy.
The idea is to 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 through the Heritage Lottery Fund
SHORT FILM
From June 2015
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 through the Heritage Lottery Fund
The PH Holt Foundation
AUDIO DRAMA
LUSITANIA: THE WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY
July 2014 — August 2015
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 through the Heritage Lottery Fund
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OPPORTUNITIES
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BOOKSHOP
Two anthologies of our writers' work for a snip!
Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012
£3.00
Theatre in the Rough Festival 2011
£3.00
LIVE THEATRE
15 June 2015
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 through the Heritage Lottery 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 through the Heritage Lottery 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