As we eagerly await the curtain to rise on this amazing festival which showcases upcoming talent in all fields. Mark, the organizer and producer of the festival, expresses his excitement, "Really looking forward to seeing all the fresh, new talent, we have at this year’s Liverpool Fringe Festival. Always an absolute pleasure and joy seeing them all. It’s going to be an exciting fortnight in October." And echoing this sentiment is Steff also organiser and producer of the event, echoing a sentiment shared by many: "We have a brilliant Fringe this year and I'm really looking forward to it. Break a leg to all our wonderful talent.". The Liverpool Fringe Festival is almost here and takes place in a number of fantastic venues in our great city. This guide is your key to navigating to the amazing shows that await you.

Let’s get started!

Hope Street Theatre:

Lost In The Beat

Rose a 45-year-old lady runs a community choir and receives a devastating diagnosis.... with the support of her family, the choir and her local community she is able to still fulfil a lifelong dream. It has poignant and comedic moments in equal measure. Enjoy!

Dates Tues 3rd and Wed 4th October

Time: 7.30

Venue: Hope Street Theatre, Hope Street Liverpool

Price: £16.50

Approx running time 2hrs

Plays In The Key Of Life

Four tales about life: Friends dismiss the Jenny myth, until a stranger predicts catastrophe. A troubled salesman calls, nothing is the same again. A homeless man meets a career woman nothing is as it seems. A man’s search for his birth mother has unexpected results. what a great night of theatre to look forward to!

Date: Fri 13th and Sat 14th October

Venue: Hope Street Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool

Time: 7.30pm

Running time approx 2hrs 15mins

Price: £12.50

Studio Three: Arts Bar

One Man Poe

Renowned as the Godfather of Gothic Horror, Edgar Allan Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre. Using Poe’s original text from 1840s, one actor faithfully brings his words to life on stage performing four of the most terrifying examples of gothic literature.

Date: Tues 3rd October

Venue: Arts Bar (Studio 3) Hope Street Liverpool

Time: 7.30pm

Price: £8 (£6 concs)

Running time: approx 2hrs 05mins (with interval)

Mason King: Sleight Of Mind

Mind Reader; Psychological Entertainer Mason King invites you into his world for a rollercoaster journey into the inner depths of your mind!

Date: Thurs 5th October

Venue: Liverpool Arts Bar, Hope Street Liverpool

Time: 8pm

Price:£8 (Concs £6)

Running time approx 1hr

Rainbow Monologues

A selection of LGBTQ+-themed monologues. Grin Theatre is proud to present the third monologue show in this series which features exciting and refreshing queer writing and performances from outstanding local actors.

Date: Thursday 12th October

Venue: Studio Three, The Arts Bar, Hope St Liverpool

Time 19.45

Running time approx 1hr 15min

The Studio Below

A Make It Write Double Bill:-

Dancing at 3am by Fiona Leonard & Down the Alley by Brian Hutchinson.Two women unfold their poignant tales in the surreal setting of dancing and cake making. A sensitive offering culled from the Fringe’s 24-hour play fest. Elsewhere two homeless people, Ester and Charles, bed down behind The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. But are they suitable companions?

Date: Thursday 5th October

Venue: MIW, The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: Two shows 6.30pm (finish 7.20pm) & 8pm (finish 9.20pm)

Ticket Price: £7 (£5 Concs)

Stacey and Rose

by Hannah Tudge and Stephanie Simpson

Stacey and Rose are making a home video of all their favourite films. But can their friendship survive as

they navigate the challenges of growing up with a bunch of homemade props and noughties references. Stacey and Rose is heartfelt, playful and full of nostalgia.

Date: Fri 6th, Sat 7th Wed 11th & Sat 14th

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: Fri 6th, Sat 7th & Wed 11th  6.30pm (finish 7.30pm) Sat 14th 8pm

(finish 9pm)

Ticket price: £7.50

Smashed

by Helen Jeffery.

Ruby doesn’t have a problem - or at least she doesn’t think she does. Maggies is almost six months into

recovery. Then there’s Callum. A new work in progress performance that asks the question; How do you navigate sobriety in a world that revolves around drink?

Date: Tue 10th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 6.30pm (finish 7.30pm)

Straight Jacket

by Luke Sookdeo

Dexter is purple. Hes been purple for as long as he can remember. Some of the time he wears his purpleness like armor, other times he hides away from the world in shame. Watch him unravel as he discovers what it is to be different.

Date: Wed 11th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 8.45pm (finish 9.30pm)

Ticket Price: Pay what you think

Hairy B*stard (Work in progress)

by Molly Farquhar

Magenta is a 20-something icon, who lives in her pink-filled world. Shes confident, witty creative but she's also incredibly hairy - particularly her face. This is a story about hairy chins, self-love, self-loathing and how expensive razors are.

Date: Wed 11th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 8pm (finish 8.35pm)

Ticket price: Pay what you think

The Catbox

by Karl Owens

A new play about selfish, awful, devious, lying writers.

Date: Thursday 12 th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 6:30pm & 8:30pm (finish 8.35pm)

Ticket price: £7 (Conc £5)

Uncle Toad & I Hate Charlie Pickles

  by Jamie Cunliffe, Ian Cragg

When the evil Nick (Uncle Toad) arrives unannounced, Chris learns startling stuff about himself. What other secrets will he disclose?

Ageing struggling comic Charlie Pickles is desperate to throw off his tired persona, so why is his agent hiding a great opportunity from him?

Date: Friday 13th October

Venue: MIW The Studio Below. 39 Rodney Street L1 9EN

Time: Two shows  6.30pm (finish 7.20pm) & 8pm (8.50pm)

Ticket Price: £7 (concs £5)

Zeit- Heist More than a feeling

by Julia Knight

Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is that feeling you get when your special interest is hijacked by the crowd. Psychologist and musician Julia Knight has the answers in this interactive comedy theatre show. Expect silly songs, fun, facts and German compound words!

Date: Sat 14th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 6.30pm (finish 7.30pm)

Ticket price: £7 £5(concs)

Wet Dreams with Jesus

By Alice Way

Louisiana, home of Mardi Gras, Southern hospitality and raging purity culture. Through the hilarious shocking retelling of true accounts the show explores Alice’s conservative Christian-led education surrounded by horny misinformed teen taught by equally misinformed adults.

Date: Sat 7th October

Venue: The Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street, Liverpool L1 9EN

Time: 8pm (finish 8.45pm)

Ticket price: £7

Valley Community Theatre

Audiences will be entertained by two evenings of short punchy plays written around the theme A Sense of Place.Valley Community Theatre continues to encourage new writing on Merseyside with another of its acclaimed showcase evenings of original drama.

Date: 6th & 7th October

Venue: Valley Community Theatre, Childwall Valley Road L27  3YA

Time: 7.30pm (finish 10pm) both nights

Ticket price: £7 £5(concs)

The Pilgrim

Poetry On The Fringe

Back by popular demand, this free fringe event gives audiences the opportunity to hear poetry live, read by the poets who wrote them.

Date: Wednesday 4th October

Venue: The Pilgrim, 34 Pilgrim Street. Liverpool L1 9HB

Time: Doors open 18.00

Ticket price Free

California Dreamin

by rachel louise clark

Get ready for chills down your spacesuit in this gripping, dark comedy. Imagine being stuck in space, now imagine youre stuck with the worst human being possible. Throw in a couple of secrets, lies and a fight for survival and youve got yourself a party.

Date: Fri 6th and Fri 13th October

Venue: The Pilgrim, Pilgrim Street, Liverpool

(Three 30 minute shows on both nights)

Time 6.30pm - 7.00pm 8.00pm - 8.30pm 9.00pm - 9.30pm

*Please note this article will be updated regularly. *

Compiled by, Elaine Louise Stuart