The Potting Shed cabaret, which takes place on board Walk the Plank's

Potting Shed...future dates

The Potting Shed Cabarets have been taking a break over the summer, but will be back in full swing for our Autumn season of garden fun and frolics.

Future Potting Shed cabarets to look out for include:

Friday 22 November: Beaujolais Nouveau special. Come and celebrate the produce of France’s rich harvest with well known band Dead Belgian and guest curators Nuala Dorrity and Tony Cairns.

Friday 19 December: The last Potting Shed in the garden before the frost settles for the winter.

Friday 13 February 2009: Celebrate spring with the finest selection of gardeners and acts past and present.

There’s also a Potting Shed input at the Vogue Ball on Saturday 8 November as part of Homotopia.

Tickets: £7.50
Box Office: www.wegottickets.co.uk

For more information or to get involved email: info@walktheplank.co.uk

Back by popular demand:

Following its sell out success at The Olympia Theatre earlier in the year Footballing Legends are bringing their incredible show about the life of Liverpool’s most famous manager to Royal Court Liverpool. This is a show writ large, unashamedly embracing the myth, emotion and epic stature of the man as well as his wit, social background, politics and famous footballing genius.

Footballing Legends Ltd is a specialist media company who produce entertainment events including theatre, interactive DVDs and television based around sport in general and football in particular. Forthcoming productions include The Busby Story, When Mooro Met Greavsie and many, many more.

“I was only in the game for the love of football- and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.”

“A triumphantly crowd-pleasing performance” Liverpool Echo

“An inspiration to Liverpool fans” Independent

“Had the sell-out audience alternately purring and roaring in their seats. Liverpool Daily Post

Marvellous magic...venue looked wicked with shiny red curtains, pulled back by glamorous assistants to reveal musical acts aplenty, including an appearance by the Ukelele Orchestra of Wales, and close-up magicians performing to the tables during the interval.

Highlights had to be Madame Pyro's riotous display of glitter, tinsel and balloons; a woman being sawn in half by Becky Hillam; and Fionnuala Dorrity's maniacal performance of 'I've Put A Spell on You' complete with flaming finger tips. Peter Moser's Chilean Bird Man of Death helped save the day after Mark Hill's musical hoover act had tripped all the fuses throughout the ship, leaving an acoustic set the only option: the House Band's guitarist and drummer took up the rhythm that the Bird Man laid down and the night took an altogether different twist...with Tony Cairns' Ballad of Newgate Gaol performed beautifully as an acoustic number.

Less people than usual made for a gentler end to the evening, and everyone went away with ideas for their masks for next month's theatrical Masked Ball, curated by Patrick Dineen. (16th May)

We are looking for an interested and budding photographer to snap away at our large scale project 'The LINE'.

This would be on a voluntry basis.

Please get in contact with us if you are interested, here or by calling Lisi on 07931 765944

We still have opportunities for groups of people to participate in THE LINE project as part of the capital of culture celebrations.

Venues are:

• Event 1.  20^th Birthday Celebrations, Albert Dock, 3rd  May
• Event 2. HUB, Otterspool Promenade, 17th May.  
• Event 3. Liverpool Streets Ahead, Bold Street, 25th & 26th May

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US IN BEING PART OF A LARGE SCALE PERFORMANCE EVENT THEN GIVE US A CALL NOW ON:

07887691708 AND SPEAK TO KAT

LISI PERRY

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

COLLISION

 We have enlisted the help of a photograper and videographer to help us document the Potting ShedCabaret.  You can check out images and video on YouTube!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18556265@N05/sets/72157604104085701/

AND

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HvdyB7gVhOA

It's that time of month when we're lowering the gangplank and opening The Potting Shed door for another exuberant evening of impromptu performance, eclectic entertainment and dancing in the lower hold of our theatre ship.

Welcome Good Friday into our very own Garden of Gethsemane – which, as well as providing Easter surprises aplenty has a Spanish flavour to the entertainment.

Joining us in the spotlight on the Potting Shed lawn is cabaret group Tutti Pazzi from Barcelona. They have been performing together across Spain since 2005 with their fun and interactive improvisation performances. One of their impromptu performances ‘The Dancers’ appears to be a graceful classic ballet, but turns into a crazy fight to conquer the tutu through a difficult and funny acrobatic act; whilst ‘Impropazzi’ is controlled by suggestions from the audience…anything could happen!

Other international acts will be the Ukulele Orchestra of Wales (who are most definitely NOT related to the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, having just two tunes and one public performance to their name: in Machynlleth) and unique stand up comedian Ralf the German, and Kicking Free dance troupe who have just come back from a tour of Egypt.

Meanwhile DJ Al Kent plays disco in the shed. Al is a self-confessed disco obsessive (nerd), semi-successful DJ and Record Producer extraordinaire whose “Million Dollar Disco” will bring back those heady disco days to the Potting Shed in style!

"Amazing venue, looking forward to seeing what else the shed has to offer. Will definitely dress up more next visit." - audience member from Potting Shed February

Tickets for the last Potting Shed sold out online, so book early to avoid disappointment. There will also be tickets available for late night revellers (£3 after 11pm) who wish to come on board for the DJ set and dancing (available on the gangplank if not sold out!).

Buy tickets online at www.wegottickets.com Or for more information visit www.walktheplank.co.uk/pottingshed

Please bare in mind our venue is a ship and it's March so wrap up warm...until you get your dancing shoes on of course!

It was great to have our pilot project over these last 2 days, and be supported at Merseyside Dance Initiative. We had a really diverse group of people who worked and played very hard over the past two days and would like to thank each of them for joining myself and Becca for a valuable project. The perfomance came together on Tuesday outside on Bold Street at the 'Suitcases'  Did anyone see the event? if so, what did you think? Did you take any photos? Get in touch with us at collision_dance@yahoo.co.uk and let us know what you thought. If you want to become a part of the LINE its not too late. Please contact us and we can give more details of the Main event in MAY as part of many of the celebrations around the city.

Cheers    Lisi Perry

Hello,

We are in the process of trying out the LINE will local participants. After being on the Radio with Margie Clark on 'City Talks' on Saturday night we have had people turning up and joining in

We will be performing on Hope Street next to the Suitcases from 3pm till 4pm tomorrow - 18th March

COME AND SUPPORT US AND WATCH US AT WORK.

 Lisi Perry ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, COLLISION