Bottleneck by Luke Barnes

Our first production was a sell-out run of ‘Bottleneck’ by Luke Barnes. (First produced by HighTide theatre company in 2014) We brought ‘Bottleneck’ to its home city, Liverpool, for the first time in 2018 at The Hope Street Theatre. The following year, we then had a successful North West tour at the Oldham Coliseum, The Edge Theatre and Liverpool’s Royal Court.

Our goal was to bring the theatre and the football community together.

North West End ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
Sound & Vision ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
Liverpool Echo ⋆⋆⋆⋆
Greater Manchester Reviewer ⋆⋆⋆⋆
Arts City Liverpool ⋆⋆⋆⋆

“This is wonderful example of local talent and a perfect illustration of how brilliant theatre can be created with good writing and direction using only simple set, very few props and one very talented young actor with an extremely bright future ahead of him” - North West End

“The visual story-telling is matched by real emotional depth. Sensitively directed by Chantell Walker, there’s nothing mawkish about it. Lean, focused and increasingly tense, the production is determined to do justice to the events being depicted” - Circles & Stalls