Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Illona Linthwaite, Sarah Berger, Tracey-Anne Liles, Kylie Walsh, Hannah Lambsdown.
All the world really is a stage and for The Paper Birds at the Playhouse Studio, the allusion to Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It as he ruminates melancholically over the seven ages of man is more than a nod, it is a great big friendly handshake that captures the very essence of six of the ages of womanhood in their production of On the One Hand.
Fringe First winners The Paper Birds come to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio with On the One Hand, an original verbatim piece telling intertwined stories of six women at different stages of their lives, exploring what it means to age. This production is at the Studio direct from the Edinburgh Festival from Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th October.
The Paper Birds present their visually stunning 10 year anniversary show interrogating the inevitable journey that our minds and bodies undertake from birth to death. Tales of biological clocks on snooze, lives packed in boxes and cities in bags; six women of different ages and at different stages of their lives.