Studio Below

DOUBLE BILL! Relics + Wise and Foolish
2025-10-11 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Relics

Grace is carrying a secret from her past which is gnawing away at her. Her Mum, Gran, is concerned about her health, and her daughter Berni’s relationship comes under pressure when her boyfriend Steven loses his job and struggles to find alternative employment.

As their worlds start to fall apart, no one seems to be listening to their prayers.

Then they hear news that St Bernadette’s relics are touring the UK and are coming to Liverpool. Could a visit to pay homage to their favourite Saint help their cause?

The play highlights the importance of families pulling together in times of need rather than relying on religious dogma and is laced with wry humour throughout.

Written and Directed by Bernie Winston

Run Time: 55 minutes

Wise and Foolish

Brian, a scouse lad in his 20’s, is having issues with his elder brother, Joe. He used to hero worship him, but since he went off to Uni and got a flash job in London Joe’s become a different person. A brilliant one man show showcasing Luke Morgan.

Written and Directed by Bernie Winston

Run Time: 20 minutes

Trigger Warnings: Adult themes with some swearing.

Age Advisory: 16+ Parental Guidance

Date: 11th October 2025 at 8pm - Studio Beyond, first floor 63 Wood St, Liverpool L1 4AL

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Shakespeare On The Spot
2025-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
The world clearly hasn’t enough Shakespeare, so this solo show improvises some more from audience suggestions. Your host (former university Shakespeare lecturer and current idiot) will transform whatever the Rodney Street muses bring into new iambic speeches by some of the Bard’s most famous characters.

It could get silly. No asps, daggers, or skulls are permitted at the venue, but feel free to bring another hitherto unknown Shakespearean prop along!

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50 Years Of Showbiz Steve
2025-10-10 20:00 - 21:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players”
Jacques in As You Like It (Act 2 Scene 7)
A spoken word / standup-type thing (I think) – reflections on the meaning of an unremarkable showbiz life. A WORLD / UNIVERSE PREMIERE (i.e. very much a work-in-progress).

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The Last Days Of Trump
2025-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
It’s election night in the year 2028 and aging two-term President Donald Trump is finally about to be replaced for good. Will he go rogue like last time or will a plan to keep him focused on more golf, gorillas, sharks, porn, and developing his “perfect” presidential library avert disaster?
6pm and 8pm show

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Behind The Laughter
2025-10-10 18:00 - 19:20 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Henry Churney and Laugh For Life Comedy (L4LC)
What happens when you bring a number of individuals onto a comedy course in Liverpool all of whom needed help with their mental wellbeing? Result is…a fantastic unique comedy show, of original material based on their own lives and issues, proving that comedy can help individuals’ mental wellbeing and self-confidence to perform on the stage.
‘Behind the Laughter’ is the journey of a mental wellbeing comedy teaching course (started in April 2024). Over 60 individuals have already benefited from this comedy course & these individuals will bring you their own original comedy performance, to show how comedy has helped them in life by improving their confidence, their mental health and to feel part of a community again. Laugh For Life Comedy Charity will show you how mental wellbeing and stand-up comedy work in harmony using social prescribing at its best.

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Fringe Bangs! Film Festival
2025-10-09 18:00 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Join us for an evening of hair-raising entertainment! A brand new short film festival hits our venue this autumn.

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Bad Blood
2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
MATT has been diagnosed with Leukaemia and has just started treatment… Should he need a bone marrow transplant, he’s in trouble as he has no family. His Friend EDDIE lends him moral support (or tries his best too) as he embarks on his journey. Despite dealing with a serious subject the piece features many comedic moments. It focusses on the importance of good friends in times of need.
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DOUBLE BILL! The Ballad of Crooked Lane and Wake
2025-10-07 19:30 - 22:30 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Two Play for the Price of One
The Ballad of Crooked Lane by Tom McLennan and Wake by Day Sheehan.
Liverpool Fringe Festival Tuesday 7th Oct £8/£6 for the whole evening (includes both plays)
Poster image of Rushton from mural by Mike Jones in the Merseyside Trade Union and Unemployed Centre
A Valley Theatre Production
1. The Ballad of Crooked Lane Written and directed by Tom McLennan
Cast and characters
Vincent Skyner Edward Rushton
Steve Donegan William Shepherd
Pauline Davies Isabelle
Kappa Kandiah Quamina
Sue Hunter Mrs Rushton
Darlington Dwyer Rushton Snr
Patrick Martin Andrew
Alfie Cooke Billy the Balladeer
Synopsis: The Ballad of Crooked Lane is set on the day blind poet and anti-slavery campaigner, Edward Rushton, is due to have a painful operation that may recover his sight. He looks back on key moments in his eventful life.
2. Wake, Written and directed by Day Sheehan
Cast and characters
Day Sheehan as Daniel
Meggan Pye as Eva
Kappa Kandiah as Policeman 1
Alfie Cooke as Policeman 2
Jennifer Moore as Woman
trigger warnings for Wake
This play looks at topics that may be distressing for some viewers, such as domestic violence.
Synopsis
When Daniel finds himself locked up, he must piece together his broken memory to face the truth about what happened last night.

PLEASE NOTE:
Trigger warning: “Both these plays examine subjects that may be distressing for some viewers, such as Domestic Violence and Racist attitudes that led to the Slave Trade.”

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Mason King - The Mind Spy
2025-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Could YOU be a Mind Spy?!
Step into the world of covert psychic experiments where the audience become the test subjects.
Thought transmission, remote viewing and precognition are put to the test in this exciting and immersive experience inspired by the real-life psychic research conducted under Project Stargate in the 1970’s
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Ripples On A Pond
2025-10-04 19:30 - 21:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Grief is a powerful emotion that some people deal with better than others.
Guilt is equally as powerful; especially when it comes to the death of a young child.
Ripples on a pond explores all the facets of grief, not just guilt and whether an accidental death is anyone’s fault?
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DOUBLE BILL! The Fox & Writing Showcase
2025-10-03 20:00 - 2025-10-09 22:00, 2025-10-03 18:00 - 2025-10-09 22:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
DOUBLE BILL!
An Evening of new writing championed by MIW – 6pm and 8pm
We all hate the day job! Especially when it’s the night shift as a carer for the elderly where tedium rules… until one night when an unusual fellow emerges from the bathroom… red headed, wide eyed and bushy tailed. The Fox is a whimsical absurdist play with an outsiders view as to what it is to be human… and happy. Along with three 10 minute plays by fresh new writer’s forming a great showcase night

6pm and 8pm
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This Woman's Work
2025-10-02 20:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-02 18:00 - 20:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Twenty years after the disappearance and murder of her best friend, a woman returns to the scene of the crime. She has kidnapped and restrained someone she believes has just been released from prison and is responsible for the death of the young boy. Over the course of a single, harrowing encounter, Julia interrogates and violently confronts him. But as memories blur and doubt creeps in, the question of his identity and Julia’s own sanity becomes dangerously unclear. Set entirely in one location, this tense two hander explores grief, vengeance and the unreliability of truth.

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Stand Up
2025-10-01 20:00 - 21:00 | The Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, L1 4AL
Mark Maguire is a jobbing Scouse comic… He spends his evenings on Stage bringing laughter into peoples lives, but off stage his life is a train wreck… He has gambling debts and owes money to a loan shark who is growing impatient and his partner and young daughter have left him and moved in with an estate agent, who is everything Mark isn’t, solid, reliable and dependable… Mark detests him…
Can Mark turn things round and get life back on track? Or is he destined to slide further down a very slippery slope…

A note from Bernie: ‘STAND UP’ was the very first piece I wrote 4 years ago… Much as I appreciated the hard work put in by everyone involved in the original production, It was not the play I had in my head when I wrote the piece and I’ve always wanted to revisit it.
So here it is… Reworked and Remodelled… Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger … and Funnier.
Stand up is written and directed by Bernie Winston.
Terry Caddick as Mark
Stephanie Hart as Marie
Peter Merrall as Tony

Tommy Tyler Morgan as Fraser

Age Advisory: 16+ Parental Guidance
TWs: Strong language
Date: 1st October 2025 at 8pm – Studio Beyond, first floor 63 Wood St, Liverpool L1 4AL

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NEUROCHATTER
2024-10-12 20:00 - 21:00 | The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L19EN
Mike, Elliott and Host happen to be the same person; they just don’t know it yet. Can they break through to reality or will they remain in fragmented fantasy together?
Contains themes of mental illness, mental distress, strong language and mild sexual references.
Age Advisory 18+.
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