This summer Liverpool Playhouse stage the world première of The Hudsucker Proxy, a new stage adaptation of the classic 1994 film written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Sam Raimi. The play is co-produced with Southampton’s Nuffield and internationally acclaimed theatre company Complicite. The play runs at the Williamson Square venue from Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 27th June.

The cast is headed up by Joseph Timms (Privates on Parade, Noel Coward; Twelfth Night and Richard III, Belasco Theatre NYC; Bracken Moor, Tricycle Theatre, Atlantis, B.B.C.1) as Norville Barnes, the unexpected hero who finds himself at the top of Hudsucker Industries.