“Sometimes people fade with time, like the smell on a shirt. Sometimes they stay forever”.
On Friday 7th and Saturday 8th February, The Unity Theatre is hosting the theatre company Penny Dreadful and their new production, How To Be Immortal.
Henrietta Lacks died in West Virginia in 1951, but her cells are still alive, dividing endlessly in laboratories all over the world. It’s taken Deborah years to come to terms with her mother’s death. Now she’s got to deal with her immortality.
Rosa’s fallen in love with Mick the decorator. She plays cello, he plays squeezebox – an unlikely combination but they sound good together. Trouble is she’s pregnant and he’s about to die.
It’s 1951. Dr George Gey and his wife Margaret are about to make a mind-bending discovery using an adapted cement mixer and some calves liver puree.
All they need is the right biopsy…
Clare Perkins, who stars in How To Be Immortal, is well known to television viewers for her roles as Denise Boulter in Family Affairs and Ava Hartman in Eastenders, as well appearing in programmes such as All In The Game, Pigheart Boy, Casualty, Men Behaving Badly and Clapham Junction. Her film credits include Ladybird, Ladybird (Ken Loach), Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh), Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb) and 7lives and now she is set to thrill Liverpool audiences as part of the stimulating and innovative theatre group Penny Dreadful.
Live music, dead people, love and DNA all intertwine in this twisted new play about what death leaves behind.
Tickets for How To Be Immortal are available from the Unity Theatre Box office, by telephone on 0844 8732888 or Online at unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk.