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Dateline: 8th July, 2007
Liverpool Theatres' New Season Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres have announced their autumn season, which the company has labelled its 'drum roll' season as it will lead into Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 as the city's 800th birthday year comes to an end. The season begins at the Everyman with a play by a new writer, Intemperance by Lizzie Nunnery, set in Liverpool in 1854 at the time of the building of St George's Hall. The writer is a graduate of the company's Young Writers' Programme and Writers On Attachment Scheme and was one of the four authors of Unprotected, which was taken to the Traverse in Edinburgh for the 2006 Fringe Festival. Opening the Playhouse season is another historical piece called Rough Crossings, adapted from historian Simon Schama's book about black slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence by leading playwright Caryl Philips, directed by Headlong's Rupert Goold. For Christmas, the Playhouse brings back last year's highly-successful production of Tim Firth's The Flint Street Nativity, directed by Matthew Lloyd, and the Everyman goes with its usual rock 'n' roll panto with Aladdin—Genie in the Sky with Diamonds from writers Mark Chatterton and Sarah Nixon with musical director Tayo Akinbode. Opening the programme of touring productions at the Playhouse is I Am Shakespeare, a 'screwball comedy' about an investigation into the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays co-written by John Dove and former Globe director Mark Rylance, who also co-directs with Matthew Warchus and co-stars with Right Size member Sean Foley. Told By An Idiot pays its first visit to the Playhouse with Casanova, a new look at the story of the notorious lover in which the title character becomes a woman, created with celebrated poet Carol Ann Duffy and directed by Paul Hunter. English Touring Theatre brings its production of the Jacobean revenge drama by Middleton and Rowley The Changeling, and Watershed brings another adaptation of one of the huge number of books by best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson adapted by Vicky Ireland with The Suitcase Kid. At the Everyman, Czech company Farm In Cave brings its Edinburgh Fringe First winning Sclavi / The Song of an Emigrant, Liverpool poets Roger McGough and Brian Patten celebrate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking The Mersey Sound, Actors Touring Company and the Young Vic bring The Brothers Size by young American writer Alvin McCraney, Frantic Assembly present Stockholm and Northern broadsides perform Lisa's Sex Strike, a new version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata written by Blake Morrison. There will also be a performance of an abridged Julius Caesar by the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre. The company has already announced its first production of 2008 to open the European Capital of Culture celebrations. It will be a new adaptation of Chekhov by Diane Samuels and Tracey-Ann Oberman set in Liverpool in 1946 called Three Sisters on Hope Street. David Chadderton
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