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.

Built on extensive research and developed with communities across the north of England, The Paper Birds began work for On the One Hand in 2012 when 10 women over the age of 60 took centre stage. As they shared where they had been and where they were going, the collective stories evolved into what it means to grow old, and how age defines us at different points in our life.

Having premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013 at St. Stephens, The Paper Birds Artistic Director Jemma McDonnell will direct the cast of four women; Tracey Briggs, Hannah Lambsdown, Illona Linthwaite and Kylie Walsh.

In conjunction with their new show, The Paper Birds have worked alongside The Media Workshop to present On the Other Hand, an interactive arts installation based on the stories that each pair of hands has to share; the tools we use to touch, to cradle, grasp, and fight; what we use to earn our living, to vote, to kill or to heal.

Our hands are the canvas on which our life story is gently painted, and this installation uses them as an exploration into the personal nature and individual experience of ageing. This interactive display will run concurrently in the Playhouse’s Dress Circle Bar for the duration of the run.

Tickets for On the Other Hand are available from the Theatre Box office on Williamson Square, by telephone on 0151 7094776 or online at www.everymanplayhouse.com. Tickets are priced at £10 and £12.