Liverpool Everyman alumnus Cathy Tyson will return to the city’s stage later this autumn in a new comedy at the Playhouse. Cathy will feature in Monkey Bars, a funny and perceptive verbatim show where children’s conversations are re-enacted by adults – playing adults – in adult situations. Chris Goode’s Edinburgh Fringe favourite comes to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio from Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th October.

A hit with critics and audiences when it premiered in Edinburgh in 2012, earning a Fringe First Award, Monkey Bars is a funny and endlessly surprising verbatim show which offers a revelatory insight into what children are trying to tell us about their lives, and ours, that we don’t always hear.

The script for Monkey Bars began when more than 40 eight-to-ten-year-old children talked about their lives; about being scared and being brave; about their family, faith, and favourite sweets; and their perspective on the adult world that surrounds and awaits them. Writer and director Chris Goode worked from the transcripts of these candid exchanges, reframing the dialogues by transplanting them into the world of grown-ups, with adults re-enacting the conversations in adult situations.

Liverpool actress Cathy Tyson began her career in the Everyman Youth Theatre and was last seen at the Everyman in 2007s The May Queen. Cathy’s extensive screen credits include Band of Gold, Mona Lisa and Emmerdale. Alongside her are Gwyneth Strong, best known for her role as Cassandra in the much-loved B.B.C. sitcom Only Fools and Horses, and Gordon Warnecke, who played the lead opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in the ground-breaking 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette.

Writer, performer and director Chris Goode’s prolific body of work includes The Fringe First award-winning shows Neutrino (Unlimited Theatre, Soho Theatre), and Kiss of Life (Pleasance Theatre, Drill Hall, London), which travelled to Sydney Opera House in 2007, along with …Sisters (Headlong, The Gate). He also recently wrote and directed for the Bush Theatre’s epic performance cycle Sixty Six Books.

Completing the ensemble cast are Angela Clerkin (The Office, B.B.C.; Season’s Greetings, Liverpool Playhouse), Philip Bosworth (The Flint Street Nativity, I.T.V.; Horrid Henry-Live, Roundhouse London), and Christian Roe (Wallander, B.B.C.; The Power of Yes, National Theatre).

Tickets for Monkey Bars are available from the Box office at the Playhouse Theatre, by telephone on 0151 709 4776 or online at www.everymanplayhouse.com. Tickets are priced at £10-£12.