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Monkey Bars, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Bosworth, Angela Clerkin, Jaquetta May, Christine Roe, Gwyneth Strong, Gordon Warnecke.

Taken from conversations held with 72 children aged 6 – 11 and from a diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds, Monkey Bars is an intriguing look on life that offers new light through old windows as to how the modern world works.

Chris Goode’s script is beautifully written and the adult cast in a wide range of roles, must feel as though they are themselves kids left to run riot through Hamley’s and the biggest Haribo factory in the world.

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Cathy Tyson Returns To The Liverpool Stage For Edinburgh Festival Hit Comedy Monkey Bars.

Liverpool Everyman alumnus Cathy Tyson will return to the city’s stage later this autumn in a new comedy at the Playhouse. Cathy will feature in Monkey Bars, a funny and perceptive verbatim show where children’s conversations are re-enacted by adults – playing adults – in adult situations. Chris Goode’s Edinburgh Fringe favourite comes to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio from Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th October.

A hit with critics and audiences when it premiered in Edinburgh in 2012, earning a Fringe First Award, Monkey Bars is a funny and endlessly surprising verbatim show which offers a revelatory insight into what children are trying to tell us about their lives, and ours, that we don’t always hear.

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