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New season 2010 Part Three announced

29th June 2010

Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director, Gemma Bodinetz, and Executive Director, Deborah Aydon, reveal the final part of their 2010 season, to complete a year that has produced four world premières, two West End transfers and two UK touring productions.

Part Three 2010 sees Kim Cattrall returning to her birth city to play Cleopatra; a new adventure entitled Everyman UNBOUND; and a world première at the Playhouse for Christmas, not to mention the last rock and roll panto to be staged at the Everyman (for a while) before it closes for redevelopment.

For October at the Playhouse renowned actress and director Janet Suzman directs a remarkable cast in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, Shakespeare's epic tragedy of passion and power. Stage and screen actress Kim Cattrall returns to her birth city to play Cleopatra, one of the greatest female roles in the Shakespearean canon, opposite Jeffery Kissoon as the once great warrior, Antony.

The theatres try something different this autumn with Everyman UNBOUND; an exciting new adventure over six weeks. One extraordinary ensemble of actors will perform, in rep, a production of John Ford’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE and an ANTHOLOGY of seven new stories by local writers.  Working with one of the UK's pioneering theatre companies, Slung Low, ANTHOLOGY will take theatre beyond the walls of the Everyman and onto the city streets as audiences become part of an unknown journey of discovery.

For next world première at the Playhouse, Peepolykus, working with Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director, Gemma Bodinetz, have created a brand new Christmas comedy, NO WISE MEN. This hilarious, magical and absurd tale about a reckless man who risks everything one Christmas Eve is sure to be an enchanting and farcical festive adventure.

The theatres continue to bring some of the best quality theatre companies and performers from around the country to Liverpool. For Part Three the Playhouse welcomes back Northern Broadsides to make it a hat-trick of visits this year, following Medea and The Canterbury Tales, with their new production of Harold Brighouse’s spirited comedy, THE GAME, directed by Barrie Rutter.

In November at the Everyman Jeff Merrifield’s HIT ME! THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF IAN DURY, a warts-and-all portrait with music of the Blockheads’ lead singer, comes to Liverpool direct from its second West End season. For November too for one delicious night only, ‘Sheffield’s finest synthesizer player and twaddle talker’, John Shuttleworth, follows previous sell-out shows The Minor Tour and With My Condiments, with A MAN WITH NO MORE ROLLS.

The Playhouse hosts more dance as part of the year long LEAP 2010 festival. Phoenix Dance Theatre open the Part Three season, and also their new tour, with the world première of DECLARATIONS.  In November, to launch the DaDaFest International 10, Choreographer Heidi Latsky and Alliger Arts present the UK première of GIMP.

As the Everyman prepares to go to sleep for a while for redevelopment, what could be more fitting for this year’s rock and roll panto than SLEEPING BEAUTY-Wake Up Little Snoozie! The top rock and roll creative team of writers Sarah Nixon and Mark Chatterton, with some familiar faces in a talented ensemble of actor/musicians, guarantee another wonderful night out for all the family to end the season.

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