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December 23, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Snow Queen, Liverpool Everyman
IT may be a time of change at the Everyman, but if there’s one thing we can rely on it’s all the fun of the rock ‘n’ roll panto. It’s been quite a while since MADEUP managed this particular outing – the last time was in its temporary relocation to the Playhouse, five years ago […]
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November 5, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Missing Light, Liverpool Everyman
The Missing Light is the latest production from Make Mend and Do, who tell magical, thoughtful tales for young audiences in creative ways.
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July 6, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Paint Your Wagon (relaxed performance), Liverpool Everyman
The Everyman rep company is wrapping up its second successful season this month with a reprise of all four of the very diverse productions it has been staging since the start of the year. Paint Your Wagon, along with Othello, A Clockwork Orange and Peer Gynt retelling The Big I Am are all showing in […]
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March 28, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Everyman’s Clockwork Orange
The Everyman Company 2018 will present the stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange in April, as director Nick Bagnall invites audiences into a world of milk, ultraviolence and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Created in 1986, Burgess’ stage adaptation was written 24 years after the publication of his original acclaimed novel. The infamous cult story […]
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December 30, 2017 / 0 Comments
MADEUP’s best of 2017
Here we are again at the end of another year, so without further ado, here’s a bit of a list – the best theatre and performance from Liverpool (and surrounds) of 2017. Here goes; click on link for full review: 1 Ramin Karimloo, Edge Hill Arts Centre(January) Starting the year off right (to coin a […]
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October 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Tin Drum, Liverpool Everyman
The Tin Drum is an assault on the senses, a wild, unrelenting ride that jolts its audience out of complacency and dazzles bright.
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May 6, 2017 / 0 Comments
New Lizzie Nunnery play opens at the Everyman
New writing is in the spotlight with the Everyman Company’s penultimate production of the season, which opens tonight (Saturday May 6). Liverpool playwright Lizzie Nunnery’s latest work The Sum reflects the aspirations and concerns of families in the city. Described as “a powerful play with songs”, the company says the piece is about “finding the […]
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April 24, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Story Giant, Liverpool Everyman
As the Everyman’s company season continues, The Story Giant takes to the stage. An adaptation of a tale by Mersey Poet Brian Patten, it brings together a wealth of the theatre’s backstage talent for a real family affair. Adapted by the venue’s former literary manager Lindsay Rodden and directed by YEP’s Matt Rutter, The Story […]
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February 24, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Fiddler on the Roof, Liverpool Everyman
Tradition – something the Everyman has always been respectful of, but likes to add its own playful, unique twist. In the last twelve months alone, those Two Gents of Verona were yanked into the Swingin’ Sixties and Madame Bovary went meta; but with Fiddler on the Roof, its first production for 2017 and the debut […]
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January 10, 2017 / 0 Comments
Cartoonopolis to hit the road
A lovely good news story for the start of the year comes from Liverpool actor Lewis Bray, who set up a modest crowdfunding campaign to raise the last bit of cash to take his one-man show on the road and hit his target in less than 24 hours. Cartoonopolis was devised by Lewis with help […]
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December 12, 2016 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Everyman’s new rep company revealed
It’s the big reveal Liverpool theatreland has been waiting for this morning, as the Everyman announced the actors who will form its new, rejuvenated rep company concept in the new year. And they are (drumroll please): city stage veteran Pauline Daniels, Caz ‘n’ Britney’s own Keddy Sutton, Spike Theatre regular Liam Tobin, and Laura Dos […]
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November 8, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: At the End of Everything Else, Liverpool Everyman
The last time I saw the madly-talented Mark Arends anywhere in the vicinity of the Everyman and Playhouse, he was terrifying the absolute bejesus out of me as Winston Smith in Headlong’s 1984 a few years back. Which is why I was keen to check out yet another side to this versatile, creative Liverpool-born performer, […]
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August 30, 2016 / 0 Comments
Mark Thomas trilogy concludes at the Everyman
Comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas returns to where it all began with his latest show, which comes to the Everyman in September. The Red Shed is the third part of his theatrical trilogy, which began with the multi-award winning, critically acclaimed Bravo Figaro and Cuckooed. It concludes as he returns to the place where it […]
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July 7, 2016 / 0 Comments
Acclaimed play Queens of Syria starts Arabic arts fest
The Everyman will host the opening event of this year’s Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) next week with a two-night run of Queens of Syria, a ground-breaking theatre piece created and performed by female Syrian refugees. The production mixes the real-life experiences of the refugees with Euripides’ classic anti-war tale The Trojan Women, and will […]
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May 31, 2016 / 0 Comments
YEP’s Young Directors Festival takes off
The YEP Directors Festival returns to the Everyman for the third year this June, showcasing the work of six young up-and-coming theatre makers at the end of the first year of their two year course. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance, and the plays span a variety of regional and national modern […]
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February 21, 2016 / 0 Comments
So I was on Front Row
Last week I was asked to go on Radio 4’s Front Row to review The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! at the Ev. I know. It sounds absurd. Still, these things don’t come along every day. The country’s foremost daily arts news programme! And me! I just assumed every other critic in a 50 mile […]
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February 11, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary!, Liverpool Everyman
Madame Bovary is a novel that is synonymous with tragedy, but run-of-the-mill adaptations are never the name of the game at the Everyman. “Lovingly derailed” is how the company describe their treatment of the classic tale, a delightful turn of phrase that promises comedy capers, but also careful consideration and much more than a two-dimensional […]
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November 4, 2015 / 0 Comments
Everyman BBC One documentary to air
Looking forward to seeing this – the Everyman will take centre stage next week in a half hour film which is part of the BBC’s prime time On Stage season. The documentary goes behind the scenes at the Ev to find out how it is faring in testing economic times. Famous Everyman alumni including Alison […]
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July 5, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Hook, Liverpool Everyman
The Hook is an exciting prospect for the Everyman and Playhouse theatres, where a bit of Arthur Miller has always appealed. Fret not if it doesn’t sound as familiar as the playwright’s masterpieces like Death of a Salesman or The Crucible – the play is an adaptation of a never-before-performed screenplay, that was surpressed by […]
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March 26, 2015 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liverpool Everyman
Traditionalists, look away now – the new Ev’s second Shakespearean outing is certainly determined to stand out from the crowd. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably one of the Bard’s best-known and most ubiquitous plays; and with this production, new associate director Nick Bagnall puts a bold stamp on things. Attracted more to the darkness […]
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