EVERYMAN THEATRE Autumn-Winter 2007

‘Made in Liverpool’ Productions
There will be two ‘Made in Liverpool’ productions for the new Spring-Summer season 2007 at The Everyman.

THE EVERYMAN

'Made in Liverpool' Productions
There will be five 'Made in Liverpool' productions for the new Autumn-Winter season 2007.

• Intemperance
It's 1854, a time of dizzying change. Liverpool's streets are teeming with merchants and new arrivals from all corners of the globe. Every day as the walls of St. George's Hall grow higher above the city skyline, in the bowels of the city the poor of the cellar slums drink away their fears. It's never their time and they know their place. But Millie has other ideas. She's seen the light at the end of the tunnel and she's taking her fiery family with her. Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz directs at the Everyman this season with a world premiere from an exciting new talent, Lizzie Nunnery. Lizzie is a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers' Programme and Writers on Attachment Scheme and was one of the four writers of Unprotected. This is her first full length play to be produced at the Everyman.
Everyman: Friday 21 September - Saturday 13 October 2007
Tickets: £8-£12.50

• Julius Caesar
Young people have taken over society, they control the media and they decide who leads the country. But they can't stop history repeating itself. Since returning to the theatres last year the Everyman & Playhouse Youth Theatre has been working towards an abridged version of Julius Caesar, their first main-stage roduction. Over forty young people from all over Merseyside are coming together to produce this passionate, exciting and vivid retelling of what happens in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Directed by Dan Meigh.
Everyman: Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 October 2007
Tickets: £6

• Aladdin
Following the year on year success of the Everyman rock 'n' roll panto, this Christmas the team brings us a magic lamp bursting with music, fun (and a genie) as we enter the world of Aladdin - Genie in the Sky with Diamonds. Writers Sarah Nixon and Mark Chatterton and musical director Tayo Akinbode have done their magic again to create a unique Everyman panto. So come to the wildest party in town, pop your platforms on and stomp on down, as Aladdin fights to get the magic lamp back in time to win the hand of Princess Willow. Media Sponsor Radio City.
Everyman: Friday 23 November - Saturday 12 January 2008
Tickets: £10-£19, Family Tickets £30-£64

Visiting Companies

Sclavi/The Song of An Emigrant
A migrant comes home after many years spent in America, but the reality of the return does not resemble that of his dreams. Winner of a Fringe First and a Herald Angel Award at last year's Edinburgh Festival Sclavi/The Song of an Emigrant was created by Farm In Cave, a Czech company of artists who use movement and physicality to weave beautiful and dramatic stories. It forms part of Aurora Nova Touring which also sees Norway's Jo Stromgren Kompani present The Convent at unitytheatre the same week.
Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 October 2007
Tickets: £8-£12.50 (book for both The Song of An Emigrant and The Convent for the special price of £14)

40-Love
Roger McGough and Brian Patten
Following his sell-out visit to the Playhouse last year with his autobiographical show Said and Done, Roger McGough, "Liverpool's own Poet Laureate" (Liverpool Daily Post), returns with Brian Patten, one of Europe's foremost poets, for a 40th anniversary celebration of the revolutionary The Mersey Sound .Penguin Modern Poets No. 10. This Southbank Centre on Tour production sees Roger and Brian each read their top twenty most requested poems.
Friday 19 October 2007
Tickets: £12.50

The Brothers Size
Actors Touring Company and The Young Vie present this European premiere of a new play by young American writer Alvin McCraney, directed by Liverpool's Bijan Sheibani. The Brothers Size mingles Nigerian Yoruba myth with the earthily poetic life of present day Louisiana to create a playful and deeply original drama. There are two brothers Size: Ogun has worked hard to get his own auto-repair shop; Oshoosi always takes the wrong track...
Thursday 25 & Friday 26 October 2007
Tickets: £8-£12.50

Stockholm
Everyman favourites, leading physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, join award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery (Frozen) and designer Laura Hopkins (Black Watch) to deliver an extraordinary perspective on the nature of modern love. Developed at the National Theatre Studio and directed and choreographed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, Stockholm follows a seemingly perfect couple as they tread a fine line between tenderness and cruelty, fantasy and reality, and gradually reveals a relationship unravelling. It's beautiful, but it's not pretty.
30 October - Saturday 3 November 2007
Tickets: £7-£12.50

Lisa's Sex Strike
Barry Rutter's internationally acclaimed company Northern Broadsides return following their successful tour of Servant of Two Masters at the Playhouse last year. Conrad Nelson directs the world premiere of Blake Morrison's unique version of Aristophanes' classic comedy Lysistrata. Lisa's Sex Strike is set in 2007 in a northern mill-town where intolerable racial tensions are tearing the mixed community apart. Lisa hatches an outrageous plot to encourage peace - a sex strike - no more nooky 'til the fighting stops, with riotously funny consequences.
Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 November 2007
Tickets: £8-£12.50

EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2008

Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in association with Hampstead Theatre present the world premiere of
Three Sisters on Hope Street
By Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman, after Chekhov Friday 25 January to Saturday 16 February 2008 Everyman Theatre
"Whenever I try to seize life with both hands, it has this awful way of shrinking down to size."
Liverpool, 1946: Stranded after the death of their father, sisters Gertie, May and Rita share their crowded home with their brother Arnold and his wife, May's pedantic husband, a demanding aunt and a cynical lodger. As the young women search for meaning and hope amidst the upheaval of their post-war world, daily life and its complications continue to tighten their hold on them.
This vibrant new take on Chekhov's classic unites the talents of Diane Samuels (Kindertransport) and Tracy-Ann Oberman to create a powerful and witty new drama, specially commissioned for 2008.

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