Maverick created professional pub theatre in Birmingham, England throughout the nineties and attracted huge new audiences to theatre. We're now working on three main UK wide projects -
- The Maverick 'People's Companies', where top professionals create plays and musicals in local communities with a supportive mix of professional and amateur performers, artists and technicians.
- Maverick's 'Pocket Classics' where audiences can thrill from the experience of some of the great English classics in an accessible, affordable way, through small-scale productions with large-scale effects and production values!
- 'Beats From The Streets' - a series of accessible, working-class originated comedies and dramas.
The Pocket Classics so far include; the Edinburgh Festival hits, Shakespeare's Henry V - Lion of England, Hamlet - Horatio's Tale , Romeo & Juliet and Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol (with Guy Masterson for Theatre Tours International) To come soon are Richard III, Macbeth; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Sherlock Holmes Jnr, Dracula and Frankenstein.
Maverick is an award-winning company.
"This will surely dispel the spirit of schoolroom Shakespeare for good" B'ham Mail
"The arrows whoosh up, and you freeze inside!" B'ham Post
"A remarkable production. A tour de force." Edinburgh Fringe News
"Perfectly turns the tables at the end. Highly recommended." Edinburgh List
(Reviews for 'Henry V - Lion of England', by Nick Hennegan)