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Dateline: 19th June, 2009
Everyword Programme Announced Liverpool Everyman's annual new writing festival Everyword has announced its programme for 2009. Headlining the event is a question and answer session with writer Howard Brenton, whose often controversial output ranges from Christie in Love in the sixties through The Romans in Britain in the eighties – which resulted in Mary Whitehouse's failed attempt at a private prosecution for indecency – to popular current TV spy series Spooks. The festival opens with five short pieces from north west writers Nick Leather, Jonathan Larkin, Johanne McAndrew, Eliot Hope, Helen Blakeman and Chloe Moss under the title The Times We Live In. Workshops for writers include The Role of the Writer in Devising from Chris Thorpe of Unlimited Theatre Company, In Media Res from playwright and literary manager Jack Bradley, Unsolicited Roadshow from BBC Writersroom (a free event), From Pitch to Screen with the development team of Lime Pictures, the event's sponsors, and What Makes Powerful Drama? from Polly Teale of Shared Experience. There will be rehearsed readings of new plays Seep by Kellie Smith and Blood and Soil by Lizzie Nunnery and other events include Hampstead Theatre Start Night, for which the London-based theatre challenged Satinder Kaur Chohan, Samantha Ellis, Juliet Gilkes Romero, Joel Horwood and Kieran Lynn to make an impact on a large stage in twenty minutes, State of Wonder Theatre Company's devised piece The Almond Tree, Tmesis Theatre Company's work-in-progress The Dreadful Hours by Chris Fittock, Late Night Fright Night in which five Liverpool writers will try different ways to scare their audiences and Lime Shorts, a celebration of the short form on stage and screen from Lime Pictures. The closing event, Present:Tense, will challenge a group of Liverpool playwrights, directors, filmmakers, poets and musicians to create a piece that responds to a current news story in just a week. The festival will take place at The Everyman on Hope Street in Liverpool from 29 June to 4 July. Further information can be found on the theatre's web site at www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/show-detail.asp?id=252. David Chadderton
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