Jeff Young’s new play, Bright Phoenix, has its world première at the Everyman in October and is inspired by a hidden Liverpool, a version of the city that is unauthorised and often unseen.
Bright Phoenix is a wild play about the carnival of the city at night seen through different eyes. It is a love story tinged with tragedy about a gang of rebel kids who don’t fit in, who grow up to be a gang of rebel adults, who still don’t fit in. And about their love for a dying cinema and their plan to bring it back to life.
Young’s work includes BBC dramas Eastenders, Doctors, Casualty and Holby City along with 35 radio plays.