Threshold Laid Bare: Theatre & Performance At Threshold V

The fifth annual Threshold Festival of Music and Arts takes place on 27th-29th March 2015 in venues across the Baltic Triangle district of Liverpool. A strong music and visual arts line-up as always make up the majority of programming at the event, but theatre and performance arts play an increasingly important role for the festival.

As a grass-roots, multi-arts event, Threshold aims to platform the very best of what’s happening in the city and a flourishing performance scene right now in the city means a promising offering.

“We’ve always felt that the performance art at Threshold should include some of the more ‘out there’ and even controversial offerings of the event, with past performers such as David Hoyle (2011), the bar is set quite high and I think this year we’re clearing it.” – Chris Herstad Carney, Threshold Producer.

Award Winning Burlesque performer Mimi Amore will return to Threshold for the 3rd year, having had a whirlwind 12 months, which included being crowned ‘Legend in the Making’ at Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival and then ‘Best British Newcomer’ at The World Burlesque Games. She will perform a precarious new fire act, and deliver workshops for those with a penchant for precision tantalising.

A collaboration between Bring The Fire Project and The Lemon Collective will also showcase a forthcoming European funded project and the seemingly unsleeping comedy improv company Impropriety will return for their 5th consecutive year of the festival to perform and deliver workshops.

Coordinated by Ink Beat founder and performance artist Frankii Panchoo, the weekend programme, which will take place in the Lantern Theatre, 24 Kitchen Street, Blade Factory (Camp & Furnace) and the brand new Liverpool Craft Beer Space, will include a myriad of drama, dance,  comedy, magic, burlesque and more than a few moments of nudity.

Frankii, who has been ingrained in the arts scene of the city for a number of years, working with her own projects as well as collaborating with the likes of The Kazimier, Hope St Ltd and Operation Lightfoot, has brought together some of the great movers and shakers of Liverpool.

Hope Street Ltd have teamed up with Threshold in the lead-in to their hugely successful biannual festival On The Verge, a performance arts event, which takes place in October this year in unusual spaces around the city. Their ‘Pitch Party’ at Threshold V will be a chance for artists to gain a place on their exclusive roster of for the forthcoming event.

Other highlights of the weekend will include comedy from The Legion of Doom, David Alnwick, Rob Bond and Alastair Clark.