The end of the world is coming to Liverpool this April…, in a new play performing at fringe venues across the city, including The Small Cinema on Victoria Street.
An Everyday Apocalypse tells the story of Crosby couple, Rob and Maya Lewis, whose marriage is on the rocks after ten years of disappointment. However, unlike your average not-so-newlyweds these two have to work through their issues in the middle of a full-blown apocalypse, with a crowd of hungry zombies milling around in their driveway and an even more dangerous secret lurking in their past.
The play is a showcase for local talent, directed by Liverpool Media Academy graduate Zara Brown and starring Huyton-based David Ward and former Young Everyman Playhouse actors Harriet Wilson and James Dorman, who took on the title role in the Liverpool Network Theatre production of Dracula at the Lantern Theatre in 2015. Even the writer, Thomas Oléron Evans, currently based in London and Strasbourg, has roots in the city, since his mother was born and raised in Bootle.
An Everyday Apocalypse is one of seven short plays that have been selected for performance at the Page to Stage Festival, a celebration of new theatrical writing taking place between the 3rd and 17th of April. The brainchild of local writer and actor, John Mc, this will be the second edition of the festival, following a successful run in 2014 with plays including Sarah Lowes’ My Afternoon with Bruce Lee and Ian Salmon’s Venus Rising.
Tickets for An Everyday Apocalypse cost £7, with a special double-bill performance (back-to-back with tense Orwellian thriller Welcome to Paradise Road) on the 14th April at Fruit & Fibres Canteen priced at £14.50, where the price of admission includes as many plates of scouse as you can manage!
Tickets for An Everyday Apocalypse and for all the other plays in festival can be purchased on the door or online via www.pagetostage.org.uk.
An Everyday Apocalypse: Performances.
Saturday 9th April, 14:00, Small Cinema, 57-59 Victoria Street, L1 6DE
Wednesday 13th April, 13:30, Small Cinema, 57-59 Victoria Street, L1 6DE
Thursday 14th April (Double-Bill), 19:00, Fruit & Fibres, 67-83 Norfolk Street, L1 0BG