Liverpool’s Naughty Corner have become the theatre company that you cannot live without. Now for their seventh production, and one that sees them back at the familiar stomping ground of the Unity Theatre, they turn their attention to the two-man play, The Muckers.

Adam Nicholls and Callum Forbes met while studying Drama at Edge Hill University before graduating in 2015. Since graduating they have gone on to star in five plays by Naughty Corner Productions while receiving critical acclaim, particularly in the multiple awarding winning and five star Naughty Corner comedy Not the Horse.

In 2017 Callum graduated once again from Edge Hill University with an MA in Making Performance before touring his own play (Naughty Corners’ fifth production) The British Idles.)

The Muckers is a two man play, showcasing the lives of two middle aged blokes in the land of no hope, Britain. They want their country back. As they both grew up in traditional working-class areas where we have seen a rise in members of far-right wing groups Adam and Callum feel this subject matter close to their own hearts. They took it upon themselves to explore the mind sets and daily routines of these notorious yet perhaps misunderstood individuals. The Muckers is a play with the objective to highlight the contradictions in these characters beliefs, while showing the humanity and the struggle they face every day.

But the core of the idea was to create a piece about the perils of friendship, and that your family aren’t always blood related. Everyone feels lonely; we rely on our loved ones to pick us up when we are down. Well for these two Muckers, each other is all they’ve got.

While the audience will most likely disagree with the opinions of these two muckers, they will empathise with them, as let’s face it, we all know a mucker in our lives.

Tickets for Naughty Corner’s The Muckers on June 27th are available to purchase from the Unity Theatre Box office on Hope Street and are priced at £10.50, and concessions at £8.50.