The legendary rock ‘n’ roll panto will return to the Everyman this Christmas following three years at the Playhouse while the Hope Street venue has been redeveloped. This year regular writers Sarah A. Nixon and Mark Chatterton have adapted Little Red Riding Hood so expect a big bad wolf and a gallant woodsman along with the live band, plenty of belly laughs and more than a few surprises.
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The Everyman Theatre Bursts Back To Life With Gemma Bodinetz’s Production Of Twelfth Night.
The Everyman is back and bursts into life with Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz’s production of Twelfth Night from the 8th March to 5th April. The production sees the return of two members of the celebrated Everyman Company of 1974 with Nicholas Woodeson playing Malvolio and Matthew Kelly as Sir Toby Belch. They will be joined by an ensemble of talent that includes Natalie Dew as Olivia, Jodie McNee and Luke Jerdy as twins Viola and Sebastian.
Gemma Bodinetz And Deborah Aydon Reveal New Season Of Shows And The Opening Dates Of The New Everyman Theatre.
It seems that time in some respects has gone by so slowly. The age between the final performance of Macbeth and the heralding of a new era of the Everyman Theatre has been two long years. However, as the highly respected theatre duo of Gemma Bodinetz and Deborah Aydon beamed around the room, the light, metaphorically and in reality is almost ready to be switched on and the welcome back to The Everyman Theatre will be long and cheerful.
Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz Reveals Playhouse’s Autumn And Winter Season.
The creative world of Liverpool never stops and for the team at the Playhouse Theatre as one season ends, the preparations are well under way for the Autumn/Winter season to begin in earnest.
Following a season of work that has transferred to London and toured the U.K., including The Misanthrope, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and The Match Box, The Playhouse leads on world premieres and creative collaborations this autumn.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rio Matchett.
Rio Matchett for the last year has juggled the pressure of a second year of studying for her degree at the University of Liverpool and being President of a very successful Liverpool University Drama Society (L.U.D.S.). On the back of some incredible work by her, the amazing team she has had at her disposal, actors and back stage, L.U.D.S. has enjoyed great acclaim with the plays that have been produced which have included Jack Thorne’s Fanny and Faggot, Noel Coward’s Still Life and the tour de force that was Alan Bennett’s The History Boys.
The Misanthrope, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Neil Caple, Simon Coates, Leander Deeny, Daniel Goode, Alison Pargeter, George Potts, Zara Tempest-Walters, Colin Tierney, Harvey Virdi.
For the third time, Moliere, Roger McGough and Gemma Bodinetz combined to make an evening at the Playhouse Theatre so anticipated and enjoyable. Heavily surrounded by a cast that adds that final burst of brilliance that makes The Misanthrope a play a distinguished and tremendous addition to the canon of Moliere plays to now have been performed on the stage in the city.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Alan Stocks (Part Two)
Alan Stocks is one of Liverpool’s most easily recognised actors. His time in plays as diverse as Dead Heavy Fantastic, The Flint Street Nativity, Tartuffe and Scouse Pacific has made him a firm favourite with theatre audiences.
For the last few weeks he has been in the outstanding play by Joe Ward Munrow, Held, at The Liverpool Playhouse Studio Theatre with the superb Pauline Daniels and the inspiring Ged McKenna. Alan’s performance in the production is arguably the finest of his career to date. Alan will soon be seen in the musical Mam! I’m ‘Ere! at The Dome alongside Stephen Fletcher, Eithne Browne, Drew Schofield, Helen Carter, Rachel Rae, Paul Duckworth and Keddy Sutton.
The Liverpool Playhouse Unveils Its 2013 Spring/Summer Season.
The 2012 season of plays and incredible drama’s may be coming to an end at the Playhouse but as ever, the hard working team behind one of the leading theatres in the city are already fully prepared for the 2013 spring/summer season.
With Roger McGough, Liverpool’s leading poet, on hand to talk about the adaptation of the Moliere classic The Misanthrope, which will have its world premiere in Liverpool before a U.K. tour, the usual unveiling of the new season was given an air of the sublime and inspirational, something that the Playhouse always manages to achieve in its many varied productions.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Rio Matchett.
Rio Matchett. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
One of the joys of being in a city such as Liverpool is the abundance of theatres that cater for all tastes and for all actors wishing to tackle the well-trodden boards and add their names to the list of watched and admired artists.