Just when it was possible to believe that nothing could top the likes of Educating Rita, the fantastic one-man show by Lewis Bray’ Cartoonopolis, Birdsong or the compelling The Hudsucker Proxy having been played out to audiences at both the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres in the last six months, the revealing of the autumn/winter season for both theatres by the creative team is enough to leave the crowds who make their way to both Hope Street and Williamson Square chomping at the bit for September to come in earnest.
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Free Will And Friendship Are The Order Of The Day As Nick Payne’s Constellations Comes To The Playhouse Theatre This May.
The hugely successful London Royal Court Theatre production, Constellations is set to charm and amaze audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse from 19th to 23rd May. Starring Sherlock’s Louise Brealey and Robin Hood’s Joe Armstrong, this explosive new play by leading playwright Nick Payne explores free will and friendship.
Featuring one relationship which turns out to have infinite possibilities, Constellations handles the concept of quantum multiverse with light dynamism that will dazzle and exhilarate audiences. Funny, sad and intellectual, all at the same time, Constellations is a feat of modern playwriting.
Liverpool Playhouse To Stage World Première Of Coen Brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy.
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.
Jonathan Miller And Barrie Rutter Unite Once More For Northern Broadsides Take On King Lear
Following the success of Rutherford & Son, Northern Broadsides join forces again with renowned opera and theatre director Jonathan Miller to stage Shakespeare’s King Lear. Broadsides’ Barrie Rutter takes the lead role at the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 28th April to Saturday 2nd May.
King Lear is the story of a family at war with itself. Lear, an ageing and deeply flawed individual, wrecks his relationship with his three daughters and in doing so, loses all he has. What is there left? This question, which is Lear’s predicament and Shakespeare’s genius, invites us all to think upon what we might gain when nothing is all we have.
Gemma Bodinetz Directs Niamh Cusack And Des McAleer In Juno And The Paycock in Liverpool And Bristol This Autumn.
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz will direct Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock in a major co-production with Bristol Old Vic. The cast will be led by Niamh Cusack as the eponymous Juno and Des McAleer as her husband Jack Boyle. The production is at Bristol Old Vic from the 5th to 27th September before moving to the Liverpool Playhouse from 1st to 18th October.
Hilarity and tragedy rub shoulders in Sean O’Casey’s classic Irish drama set in Dublin 1922. Juno and the Paycock features his trademark mix of comic double acts, political upheavals, domestic longings, and characters who are never far away from an opulent word or song.
Dylan Thomas’ Classic Under Milk Wood Comes To Enchant Audiences At The Playhouse.
In the year that marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth and the 60th anniversary of the play’s British première, Clwyd Theatre Cymru’s acclaimed production of Under Milk Wood comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th May.
Directed by Liverpool Everyman founder Terry Hands and featuring Owen Teale, Dylan Thomas’ rapturous Under Milk Wood is a work of genius; ripe with vitality, rich in humour and populated by sublime, eccentric, enchanting characters. Both a play and a poem, written from the heart, it offers an unforgettable journey into the roots of language and the soul of Wales.