Free Theatre Tickets! For under 26's: A Night Less Ordinary

Forthcoming:

• Ghost Boy

  April 20th 2010 - April 24th 2010

  20 STORIES HIGH, CONTACT AND BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENT GHOST BOY by Keith Saha

  Welcome to Lemonade Estate. A place between the city and the hills, a place that people have forgotten, a place where the kids are running wild…

  Dennis has had enough of the “little demons” running round the estate; he takes the law into his own hands and transforms himself into vigilante superhero “Fly Man”…

  Meanwhile on the other side of the estate, we meet Jamal, a boy who holds a deep, dark secret… The secret of…Ghost Boy.

  Hailing from Liverpool, 20 Stories High are one of the country’s most vibrant and ground-breaking emerging theatre companies. Fusing Grime, Dubstep, Ska, Puppetry, Hip-Hop, Street Art and Dance: Ghost Boy is an anarchic, energetic and challenging piece of theatre brought to you by an eclectic range of artists, dancers, puppeteers, live musicians and actors.

  “a dynamic new theatre company keen on breaking down boundaries…edgy and exhilarating” Whats On Stage

  Ages 13+ (contains language that may offend)

• Canary

  April 23rd 2010 - May 15th 2010

  LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN AND PLAYHOUSE, ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE AND HAMPSTEAD THEATRE PRESENT CANARY a new play by Jonathan Harvey

  In 1960’s Liverpool two lovers hide in the closet, then go their separate ways.

  While pits close and dole queues grow, a couple of runaways find Heaven in 1980’s London.

  And today the paparazzi chase a love story that could tear a family apart.

  Then a grieving mother gets lost up a mountain, with a vicar...

  A deeply moving, funny, unflinching, and often magical story about love, honesty and being brave enough to sing out at the top of your voice. With style.

  Liverpool born multi-award-winning playwright Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street) returns to the theatre where he wrote his first play.

  Ages 16+ (contains scenes of a sexual nature and strong language)

• The Woman In Black

  May 31st 2010 - June 5th 2010

  • Drama

  PW PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

  A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul.

  It all begins innocently enough, but as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. The borders between make believe and reality begin to blur and the flesh begins to creep...

  Now in its 21st year in the West End, over 7 million people have lived to tell the tale of one of the most chilling and successful theatre events ever staged.

  “The audience were jumping out of their seats” The Observer

  Ages 12+

• Chronicles Of Long Kesh

  April 27th 2010 - May 1st 2010

  • Drama
  • History

  Green Shoot Productions Presents CHRONICLES OF LONG KESH A new play by Northern Ireland’s celebrated playwright Martin Lynch

  The hilarious, painful and shocking story of Northern Ireland’s infamous prison, Long Kesh, told through the eyes of prison officers, Republicans and Loyalists, a rich assortment of patriots, chancers, leaders, wives, escapers and hypochondriacs. Full of 1960’s Motown songs and wild, irreverent humour, this is the inside story of the Troubles.

  Chronicles of Long Kesh premièred in Belfast in January 2009 with a sold-out run and standing ovations every night. The play has toured throughout Northern Ireland and was a smash-hit during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009.
  

  ‘Physical, loud, sweary, funny, perfectly choreographed, terrifying and still, again, funny.’ The Observer

  ‘A must-see!’ Sunday Times

  4 Stars The Guardian

  4 Stars The Times

  Funding has been provided in part by Culture Ireland

• 66A CHURCH ROAD - A LAMENT MADE OF MEMORIES AND KEPT IN SUITCASES

  May 6th 2010 - May 8th 2010

  • Comedy

  

  Last September I had to move out of my flat after living there for almost six years. I didn’t want to. I lived alone. I am single. 66a Church Road was the longest relationship of my life. This is a break up show. For my flat. Daniel Kitson, May 2008

  Following last year’s sell out performance of his stand up show We Are Gathered Here at the Playhouse and previous success with his storytelling show C90, Daniel Kitson makes a welcome return to the Everyman. In 66a Church Road, he brings us astonishing images of crumbling beauty and battered grandeur from within time beaten suitcases, telling a funny, sad and truly nostalgic story of a forsaken flat, a broken heart and the ache for home.

  Winner Fringe First Award 2008, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

  June 17th 2010 - July 10th 2010

  • Drama
  • Dance
  • Musical

  By Robert Tressell In a new adaptation by Howard Brenton

  Enlightening, deeply moving and gloriously funny, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a story that has changed countless lives and remains as vivid and as relevant as when it was written almost a century ago. This story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society, is a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written.

  Now one of our greatest playwrights, Howard Brenton, adapts it for the stage in a new production for the Everyman. Christopher Morahan returns after the success of The Caretaker to direct a large ensemble in a vital production filled with energy, humour, passion and music.

• Simon Callow in The Man From Stratford: Being Shakespeare

  June 16th 2010 - June 19th 2010

  • Drama
  • History
  • Shakespeare

  Written by Jonathan Bate

  Shakespeare is the greatest writer the world has ever known. But we know nothing about him. Or do we? In a magical tour-de-force, Simon Callow, one of Britain’s greatest actors, tracks down the real William Shakespeare, bringing to life both the man and the unforgettable characters – lovers, kings, soldiers and clowns – who have since conquered the world’s stages.

  Following the world-wide success of The Mystery of Charles Dickens (West End/Broadway) and hot on the heels of his sell-out hit Dr Marigold & Mr Chops, Callow joins forces with Jonathan Bate, pre-eminent Shakespeare biographer and editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare: The Complete Works, to fill the stage with Shakespeare’s real and imagined worlds. A theatrical event not to be missed.

  “Fascinating, joyful, funny and haunted, it’s a Dickens of a show.” - Daily Express (The Mystery of Charles Dickens)