About us

The Suitcase Ensemble is a theatre collective bringing together some of the most exciting young and emerging theatre makers in Liverpool.

The group exists to provide opportunities for local artists and members of the community to develop creativity, share skills, create original performances and use theatre and art to explore questions about contemporary life.

We are dedicated to widening access to high quality artistic experiences for artists, participants and audience members, and we push the artistic expectations of performance that is created outside of formal theatre spaces.

There are currently four main areas of our work:

1. Small scale professional performance: the production and tour of innovative cross-artform devised performance

2. Cabaret performance: Performance of contemporary theatre, music, poetry and dance in a range of non-theatre contexts including cabaret events, folk clubs, night clubs and festivals

3. Large scale and outdoor performance: Working in partnership with experienced producers to contribute to large scale community events, street theatre, site-specific performance and other outdoor extravaganzas

3. Participatory projects: one-off workshops and long-term projects that engage young people and adults (ages 14 upwards), especially those who would otherwise have little access to arts opportunities


We create innovative and contemporary theatre that speaks about real life with intelligence, humour and emotional resonance.

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The Suitcase Ensemble is a company of enthusiastic, creative and dedicated artists who create exciting and imaginative theatre. I was impressed by their scratch version of 'Clunk' and inspired by the style of theatre they had developed; quite bizarre and totally different to anything currently being produced in the Merseyside region.

Hope Street Ltd is pleased to support the company, nurture it and provide a mentoring programme for them, and we plan to support them for as long as they consider it to be of value to them.

Peter Ward, Director, Hope Street Ltd


The Suitcase Ensemble is an associate company of Hope Street Ltd and we are currently artists in residence at Metal Liverpool

We receive ongoing support-in-kind from Hope Street Ltd and Metal, and are currently in receipt of project funding from Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool PCT and The Co-operative Bank, and additional support-in-kind from They Eat Culture and unity theatre.

For a complete list of all our funders and partners, please see our links page