Script School – Screen Writing
2026-02-22 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
Miriam Mussa is the Facilitator for this practical 3 hour workshop. Understand how Blocking and movement are the key tools to storytelling.
Miriam brings extensive experience in directing, touring theatre and leading her community and engagement programmes. Her practice is rooted in clarity, care and making meaningful connection with audiences.
Sunday 22nd Feb at 13.00 to 16.00
What to expect:

Looking at how actors are moved and placed to tell a story without words
How using movement can help reduce the word count
For directors: deepening knowledge of direction through physical storytelling
For actors: What a director may expect of you in the physical sense. Make clearer and more intentional physical choices in rehearsal
Strengthen narrative clarity, presence and audience connection.

This workshop is suitable for actors, directors, artistic leads and writer/directors

Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen

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Ridiculous Shorts
2026-03-03 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Tuesday 3rd March at 7pm. Monologues and Duologues that are all a bit odd…
Chosen Shorts:
Hello Mum By Michelle Phillips directed by Kevin Foott
Minnie lives alone and watches the neighbours so much that a complaint is made but when a second visit finds Minnie missing the visitors are left puzzled
The Empty Bed by Bernie Winston directed by Bernie Winston
The truth about David comes out after his double life crashes to an end
See Through by Glen Dickenson directed by Dean Horrocks
An interrogation full of Menace and soft linen
Changed by Glen Dickenson directed by Dean Horrocks
Some people wake speaking with a foreign accent, I woke up with something completely different
Time Together by Tony Vale directed by Matt Shiel
A marriage in crisis, a daughter tests her parents to see if anything is worth saving, but how?
Find me in Three by Lauren Blakeway directed by Kevin Foott
The mystery hiding place almost revealed. The person hiding a tease
I don’t Believe it by Irene Stuart directed by Liz Hardy
Two brothers keep a secret for 40 years…40! The truth can’t be that bad?
Run Time: approx 1 hour

Trigger Warnings: Mild horror and accidents

Age Advisory: 12+ Parental Guidance

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LOL Night – Laughing our way to well-being
2026-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
‘Behind The Laughter’ is a comedy night with a difference. Founder Henry Churney with his company ‘Laugh For Life Comedy’ runs courses for improving mental health and wellbeing, using the medium of stand-up comedy. Proving that comedy can help your mental wellbeing in many ways.
Come and join these amazing individuals who have completed the course, done at least one showcase event and now ready for another festival of fun and laughter. All bringing their own material just for you. We will have around 13 acts for you to enjoy and Henry will be the MC for the evening.

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Weird World Improv
2026-03-05 21:00 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Thursday 5th March at 9pm. We have three improv troupes that will each do a 20-40 minute sets on the topic of Weird World. The winner of the Improv off will be announced on the night.

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Aunty Carol’s Disgusting Crumb
2026-03-06 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Written by Pete Cole and Directed by Molly Farquhar and James Keiron, this play looks at a family falling apart as Mum works too much and Dad is a lost soul. The madness gets worse when OCD Aunty Carol comes to help but the crumb placed on the floor by Mum with the instructions to “leave it be,” push her to the limit. Friday 6th March two performances 6.30pm and 8.30pm

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Freestyle Film Festival
2026-03-07 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Saturday 7th March at 7pm. A night of weird films…more TBA soon.

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Bizarre Theatre
2026-03-08 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
A part of Weird and Wonderful festival – 3 Bizarre plays take to our stage in a night of Bizarre Theatre.

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Writer’s Monologue Masterclass Course
2026-03-14 13:00 - 15:00 | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
Want to write a meaningful monologue worthy of radio? Not sure how to move your character forward within a play? Want to Write well rounded Characters? Then this course is for you. Sharon Colpman a regular writer featured on the Writer’s Block Radio hour and contributor to the book “The Story so Far” will be your facilitator for this six week course.
What you will learn:

How to generate ideas from a blank piece of paper and using prompts
The definition of a monologue and the ways they are used
From examples, how to use monologues within a play and how to write an answering monologue
Deciding of character mood and how that might change using p-typing
Knowing your character completely
How writer’s reveal the inner character

What you will achieve:

2 monologues that will be both recorded and performed in a showcase event.

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Script School – Screen Writing
2026-03-24 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
Want to write a screen play? Want a general overview of how to write something worth filming? Then join this workshop. Chase Johnston Lynch, a seasoned Screen Writer, Film and music Video director will be at hand to give you the breadth of his knowledge.
What is in each session?

Overview of screen writing and the script school project
Making your characters real
The importance of plot
The construction of a good screen play

A break to write your screen play

How to edit your work
Final critique and edit

What you will achieve:

A short screen play that will be passed on to our directors course of which some parts will be filmed

Tues 24th March 19-21.30 for 6 weeks with one week off for writing, ending Tues 5th May. work to be submitted no later than 11th May.
Location: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool.

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Deep Dive Directing – The Theatre Directors Tool Bag (Intermediate Directors)
2026-03-29 13:00 - 15:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
A 2 hour deep dive into the tools and techniques used by professional directors to develop and improve your practise. You should already have some experience of directing plays.

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Weekender Workshop – Film Directing with Emotional Impact
2026-05-16 19:00 - 2026-05-17 21:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Want to direct a film or screen play? Not sure how to get what you want from your crew and actors? Then join this workshop. Chase Johnston Lynch, a seasoned Screen Writer, Film and Music Video director will be at hand to give you the breadth of his knowledge.
What will you do?

Practical sessions to understand why you are here as a director and what established directors can teach you.
Learn style and impact that matters to you and has your own stamp on it
Connecting with the actors and communicating emotion
Making non-dialogue scenes work
What is your genre?
camera placement
Location technicalities and the 4 wall exercise for blocking
Job roles in your team
Storyboarding for emotion, body language and establishing shots
Use what you have learnt to shoot a short scene from a script you have been assigned.

Tues 24th March 19-21.30 for 6 weeks with one week off for writing, ending Tues 5th May. work to be submitted no later than 11th May.
Location: The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool.
All deadlines must be met.

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DOUBLE BILL! TIGERS AND ONE NIGHT WITH MARILYN
2026-05-28 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Preview of One Night with Marilyn: Unknown to her many millions of fans in February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was sectioned by her psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris to the Payne Whitney Clinic, the psychiatric division of Cornell University New York. Marilyn was under the impression she was being sent for some rest and recuperation by her trusted doctor. Marilyn was exhausted after the stressful filming schedule of ‘The Misfits’, its lukewarm reception and her fresh separation from Arthur Miller. In addition Marilyn had set alarm bells ringing amongst her friends and psychiatrist by talking of ‘ending it all’……..
As she was being escorted into the clinic Marilyn became aware that this was no ordinary place and started to become quite anxious. She had often been to such places previously to visit her mother who had been confined to mental institutions for many years and was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. Marilyn herself had a growing complex that she too was going insane and friends noticed that occasionally she behaved as if pre-occupied by ‘voices’ she claimed to be speaking to her. Marilyn checked-in wearing a disguise and under the pseudonym ‘Faye Miller’. Upon arrival at her ‘room’ in the clinic a dishevelled unwell looking Marilyn was given a hospital gown, then left alone in her locked cell. To make matters worse the tranquilisers and prescribed medication she had been taking for some time to calm her nerves and any personal possessions had been removed. She feels lost and alone as withdrawal symptoms start to kick in – but was Marilyn Monroe ever really alone…?
Tigers: During a lucid dream, ROBERT, once an adorable child, meets someone he loved and cherished when he was eight years old – HIMSELF: His inner-self, BOB.
Both characters are the same person, the same age, with completely opposing personalities.
BOB is the person ROBERT should have become, had he not gone into a place, their mother absolutely forbade.
BOB, (Inner-self. Refined and sophisticated), questions ROBERT, why he went
into this place, where a sexual predator abused him.
This experience caused ROBERT to endure decades of guilt, trauma and shame;
haunted with nightmares of being hunted by, ‘The smiling tiger.’ The face of his abuser.
They both re-enact their past, present, hopes and aspirations; but above all else,
ROBERT learns how to love himself once more.
This is a story of hope and compassion for survivors of sexual abuse.

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One Night With Marilyn
2026-06-05 19:00 - 2026-06-07 19:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Unknown to her many millions of fans in February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was sectioned by her psychiatrist Dr. Marianne Kris to the Payne Whitney Clinic, the psychiatric division of Cornell University New York. Marilyn was under the impression she was being sent for some rest and recuperation by her trusted doctor. Marilyn was exhausted after the stressful filming schedule of ‘The Misfits’, its lukewarm reception and her fresh separation from Arthur Miller. In addition Marilyn had set alarm bells ringing amongst her friends and psychiatrist by talking of ‘ending it all’……..

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Terminal 2
2026-06-11 18:00 - 23:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
With their plane delayed due to a power cut, George and Lynda Sumner debate the meaning of life,
the common bluebottle, sex tapes and the pros and cons of a KFC … but it soon becomes clear that
Lynda’s journey is one way and that George has been hiding a painful secret for all their married
life…
Terminal 2 is a tragi-comedy drama about unconditional love, life, death, and late-life sexuality.
As Part of Queer Words 2026

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Mums The Word
2026-06-12 18:30 - 19:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
This is a play with themes of sisterhood and secrets about sexuality.
Sam is reluctant to tell her elderly mum about her new partner, Jen. When Sam returns home to help her mum after a stay in hospital, Eve her sister brings up the bad feeling between them which arose because Sam had kept her sexuality secret for most of their lives. When mum returns secrets about her lost and found loves leave them both surprised. This play looks at how adults behave as children when they return to their family home and how the family home is soon to be changed forever.
As Part of Queer Words 2026

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The Book of Audrey
2026-06-12 20:30 - 21:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Audrey Shalosh has lived a life full of stories. Some she’s proud of. Some she’d rather forget. And some that refuse to stay buried. When she arrives in the afterlife, Audrey isn’t met with quiet reflection, but with bright lights, a live audience, and a host who already knows everything. In Moroni Live, her life is laid out piece by piece — every choice, every misstep, every moment that shaped who she is. As the line between judgement and entertainment begins to blur, Audrey is faced with more than just her past. She must decide how to own it. Bold, heartfelt, and sharply funny, The Book of Audrey explores identity, accountability, and the power of telling your story in your own voice. Because when your life becomes a spectacle… who really gets to decide its worth?

As Part of Queer Words 2026

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Straight Jacket
2026-06-13 18:30 - 19:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
When he returns home for his father’s funeral, Dexter is confronted with ghosts from his past, reminding him of a time he worked hard to forget. As the memories creep back in, a vengeful Dexter decides to search for the man who tortured him all those years ago.

As part of Queer Words 2026

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The Easy Way Out
2026-06-13 20:30 - 21:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
A musician, a doctor, and a traumagenic personification of God walk into a hospital. Tale as old as time.
Eli Yim, a young adult in a mental health crisis, goes to A&E in a last-ditch attempt to get help. What begins as a flippant retelling of their life story becomes an exploration of suicidality’s brutal truth – when no one else can save you, you must keep choosing to save yourself.
The Easy Way Out combines theatre, live music, and stand up comedy to both entertain and expose the uncomfortable reality of UK mental health services. Eli shares a range of personal experiences covering generational trauma, religion, and queer identity through original songs sung onstage with their keyboard. And, sometimes, an inappropriately-timed kazoo.
“A complex, engaging performance that reflects Eli Yim’s endless talent” – Buxton Festival Fringe 2025

Trigger/content warnings:
– Swearing
– Mentions of suicide
– Mentions of transphobia

As part of Queer Words Festival 2026

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A Bernie Winston Comedy Double Bill
2026-07-24 20:00 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
ANDYS ANSWER
Andy is obsessed with television quiz shows and has a string of embarrassing appearances behind him… He knows his stuff, but wilts under pressure. When he’s made redundant, Andy’s heavily pregnant wife, Lisa, encourages him to wake up, face reality and take any job… To her frustration, he sees winning big on a new National Lottery show as the answer to all their problems. Can Andy achieve his dream… or is this the final Countdown?
Starring: Ted Grant, Kirstin Hawkins-Grant and Sheila Samuels.
JUST THE TWO OF US
After finding her husband in an uncompromising position, Cathy leaves him and finds herself living in a pokey flat in Bootle with just a blow-up sex doll for company… Come and hear her story.
Starring: Kate Harcus.

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Eternal Marilyn
2026-10-16 20:00 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
In Eternal Marilyn: A Celebration of Iconic Beauty, Kahli Morris, an elegant, timeless, and mesmerising performer, brings Marilyn Monroe to life with her unique talent and sophistication.
With decades of experience in singing, acting, and cabaret, Kahli infuses the show with her own distinctive touch, blending storytelling and song to celebrate Marilyn’s journey – from her early beginnings to her rise as a beloved icon.
Every performance of Marilyn’s classic songs radiates charm, energy, and emotion, inviting the audience to delight in her glamour, wit, and enduring magic.
Kahli’s grace and charisma make this one-woman show an unforgettable tribute, inspiring audiences to embrace their own elegance, joy, and inner star power.

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