The creative world of Liverpool never stops and for the team at the Playhouse Theatre as one season ends, the preparations are well under way for the Autumn/Winter season to begin in earnest.
Following a season of work that has transferred to London and toured the U.K., including The Misanthrope, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and The Match Box, The Playhouse leads on world premieres and creative collaborations this autumn.
Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz unveiled the new season with some of the writers and directors that are going to calling the Playhouse home over the next few months. They include Chris Hannan who is the man who has adapted Dostoyevsky’s classic dark tale, Crime and Punishment, Daniel Matthew who came through The Young Everyman Playhouse Writers Programme and who developed his debut play Scrappers and Keith Saha who thrilled audiences in 2010 at The Everyman with the play Ghost Boy and whose new work is Melody Loses Her Mojo.
Gemma Bodinetz said, “This season the Playhouse will deliver a rich cocktail of extraordinary versions of classic plays and exhilarating world premieres in both the main house and the Studio. Chris Hannan’s remarkable adaptation of Crime and Punishment is an epic telling of a classic tale. 20 Stories High are a Liverpool company whose work we have long admired and with whom we are always delighted to be associated , while Scrappers brings together Young Everyman Playhouse, L.I.P.A. and the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme for a production that is sure to follow in the tradition of great new work first brought to life in our Studio.”
Following on from last year’s successful evening at the Playhouse, Mark Thomas will return on the 22nd October in his new show, 100 Acts of Dissent. Mr. Thomas is well versed in the art of creative mayhem and over the years his ‘troublemaking’ has changed laws, cost companies millions and annoyed those who deserve to be.
One of Liverpool’s favourite touring theatre companies, Northern Broadsides, who are in Liverpool this week with their production of Rutherford And Son, will return in November for their play The Grand Gesture. Conrad Nelson directs a large cast of charismatic northern actor-musicians in a riotous evening of comic mayhem and exquisite farce.
The year ends in the only way it can with the great Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto which returns again to the Playhouse. The respected team of Sarah A. Nixon and Mark Chatterton will create Aladdin for the talented ensemble of actors and musicians which will once more include Liverpool panto favourites Francis Tucker and Adam Keast. This production will include twilight performances as well as autism- friendly performances of the production for the third year running.
For more information on the shows that are coming up at The Playhouse Theatre, including A Day of Pleasure, Monkey Bars and a new major production by Headlong of George Orwell’s 1984, go online at www.everymanplayhouse.com or go to the Box office in the theatre on Williamson Square. All shows are individually priced.