People Show Theatre Company
Based in Bethnal Green, London, we are the legendary theatre company. Formed in 1966 to do a show called People Show in the basement of Better Books on Charing Cross Road, the group stayed together and adopted the title for themselves: they became the first experimental theatre group in Britain.
For more info on the company feel free to check out or website at www.peopleshow.co.uk but the only way to really get a taste of what we're about is to come to a show.
Recent productions include People Show 118: The Birthday Tour, a show to celebrate our 40th anniversary, where you the audience don’t sit still: Where you’ll experience special moments around the theatre, and inside our very own People Show bus, ‘Tiger-lil’ for some tip-top entertainment. Taking you from dreamscapes of monochrome chic, to scenes of intimate trailer-trash cabaret. Featuring live music, enticing projections and a few good jokes.
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Recent Productions Include People Show 119: Ghost Sonata
An epic promenade performance that moves the audience outside and inside the iconic Palm House at Sefton Park, inspired by the play ‘The Ghost Sonata’ by August Strindberg.
Outside, all is chaos and confusion. Anarchy in a war torn land. On the other side of the gates, the haunting strains of gypsy balkan music from a wandering disparate band hints at a world in which ghosts walk in bright daylight. The journey takes you to whispered secrets, corseted ladies cradled in bones, glimpses of interminable passion and the heady scent of purple hyacinth.
You’ll make mischief at the Butchers, have chance encounters with reluctant heroes, a mummy who lives in a closet and a vampiric household cook.
Darkly funny, surreal and visually spectacular, People Show weave their magic as the journey glides you through the Opera to an inner sanctum, a lavish and lascivious world of contrast, exchanging the savagery of the badlands for visions of twisted beauty revealing a tale of a broken utopia; interrupted by Wagner, vaudeville and tea.
Devised by the Company.
Directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo.
Original music Mike Figgis.
Lighting Chahine Yavroyan.
Performed by People Show and featuring Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Hope Street and Merseyside Dance Initiative.
Co-commissioned by Liverpool Capital of Culture and Sefton Park Palm House with support from the Arts Council of England, LIPA and Unity Theatre.
