The luminosity of 1980s Berlin is brought compellingly to present day Liverpool by the Everyman Company in The Conquest of the South Pole. Associate Director Nick Bagnall directs Manfred Karge’s story of rebels who imagine themselves on Roald Amundsen’s expedition in their attic. Full of inventiveness, defiance and aspiration, the spirit of this classic European text is as vital now in Brexit Britain as it was in Germany 30 years ago.

“No it’s not triumphs we need to act out, friends, not triumphs. We do failures better, they’re our staple diet. Every trip to Poundland is a failure. Every phone call about a job ad is a failure. Spending so many hours at the keyboard the letters come off on your hands.”