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Dateline: 1st December, 2009
Liverpool Theatres New Season The first part of the 2010 season at Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse Theatres was announced this week by artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and executive director Deborah Aydon. To open the season at the Playhouse, Andy Nyman, who is partly responsible for Derren Brown's TV and stage shows, comes together with Jeremy Dyson, writer and performer with The League of Gentlemen, to write and direct the world première of Ghost Stories in a co-production with Lyric Hammersmith that is described as "a petrifying 80 minutes of theatre, strictly for over 15s, that will shock and spook audience like never before". This is followed by a new play by Liverpool writer Jonathan Harvey who came to prominence with stage works such as Beautiful Thing but is now more famous as the creator of television sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme and a writer for Coronation Street. Canary is a love story spanning three generations directed by Hettie MacDonald and is co-produced by English Touring Theatre and Hampstead Theatre. Cornwall's innovative Kneehigh Theatre makes a welcome return to Liverpool with its latest dark fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, playing for three weeks at the Everyman in March. Liverpool-based Tmesis Theatre will perform The Dreadful Hours written by Chris Fittock and directed by Javier Marzan of Peepolykus, and Spike Theatre will return with its spontaneous theatre show Hoof! plus a version for younger audiences, Hoof Jnr!. Local young people's theatre company 20 Stories High will perform Ghost Boy in April. Other visiting productions include Hoipolloi with Hugh Hughes In ...360, Northern Broadsides with Tom Paulin's adaptation of Medea by Euripides and also with Mike Poulton's adaptation of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Shared Experience with The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams starring Imogen Stubbs. Northern Stage will bring its production of Oh What A Lovely War! directed by Erica Whyman. Edinburgh Fringe and now West End hit Morecambe starring Bob Golding as half of the famous British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise will visit Liverpool, as will long-running West End ghostly tale The Woman In Black, adapted from the novel by Susan Hill by the late Stephen Mallatratt. David Chadderton
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