It’s the 1st of April 1989. By midnight on the 14th, the Miller family’s lives will have changed.

Those Two Weeks isn’t a play about Hillsborough. It’s a play about before. It’s a play about what life was like when it was normal and it’s a play about how difficult normal can be.

Joe’s looking at University and moving in with the girlfriend he thinks his family don’t know about, Peter has an ambition that seems at odds with his current lifestyle and Jacqui’s pregnant to the boyfriend she’s just dumped. Dave and Terri have no idea what’s happening in their family and finding out will see old issues resurface in their marriage.

Sometimes all it takes is one wrong word for everything to fall apart. Sometimes it’s not possible to put it back together.

Ian Salmon is a Liverpool writer and season ticket holder at Anfield from a long line of Liverpool fans, the author of They Say Our Days Are Numbered and a regular contributor to The Anfield Wrap and Radio City Talk.

“I didn’t want to tell the story of the 96 who were lost on the day; I didn’t feel I had the right to as it’s their story. I didn’t feel I had the right to tell the story of my brothers’ or my father’s experiences on the day; my brothers were in the end pen and my father was in the stand. I didn’t go through what they went through and my family obviously hasn’t been through what any of the families have been through. We know how fortunate we are and that partially informs the writing of the play.

The stories that I could tell were those of my mother and my then girlfriend-now wife, both of whom were at home, and a great deal of the story is based on my wife’s story; it’s how it was for her coming into a family that supported a team that wasn’t hers; it’s about honouring her relationship with my parents, with my family.”

It’s about listening to Cowboy Junkies and The Reynolds Girls, reading science fiction and arguing over the red/blue divide, realising your generation didn’t invent this stuff and that you don’t know as much about each other as you think.

It’s about new love and old love, coming together and falling apart, about trying to make right everything that you made wrong. It’s the end of the eighties and everything is about to change.

Directed by award-winning director of Naughty Corner Productions, Mike Dickinson and starring Jackie Jones, Mike San, James Ledsham, Sam Walton, Nick Sheedy, Katie King and Lisa McMahon.

Those Two Weeks will premiere at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre on 28th of February, 1st, 2nd & 3rd of March 2018.

It’s for everybody that doesn’t think theatre is for them.

Dates and Times: Wednesday 28th February – Saturday 3rd March 2018 (8pm)

Ticket Price: £12.50 / £10.50

Box Office: 0151 709 4988 or www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

Venue: Unity Theatre 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG