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Hi and welcome to Liverpool’s Royal Court and this performance of Take Me Home County Road.

Hello and welcome to Liverpool’s Royal Court and this performance of Take Me Home County Road Before a show makes it to stage, a lot of hard work goes into making sure the script is right, the music is great and the performances are perfect. This is a show that we knew would be a smash as soon as we saw the title.

You already know that Liverpool has a great history of creating music but we’ve never had the chance to go full country and western before. Adam McCoy has been itching to write this show for a long time and he has packed it full of country hits to keep you singing along. This is Adam’s first script for us and we are delighted with it. A talented young man.

Outstanding stints are also put in by Lighting Designer Doug Kuhrt, our resident sound genius Kate Harvey and Jamie Jenkin, whose video design brings the whole show to life.

Liverpool’s link with country and western leads the way in the show but it also says a lot about hopes, dreams and how life can get in the way. It is a show that will ring true with a lot of people who come through our doors and we can’t wait to share it with you.

Kick off your shoes, pull on your cowboy boots and get ready to go down to the hoedown.

See you on the dancefloor!

Kevin Fearon Executive Producer Liverpool’s Royal Court

Every show needs a brilliant cast and we’ve hit the jackpot again.

Adam will be taking off his writer’s beret and pulling on a Stetson, Helen Carter takes the lead role to show off her incredible voice and Eithne, Keddy and Lenny need no introduction to you. Every one of them is a star.

Fans of Haunted Scouse and The Peaceful Hours 1 & 2 will be delighted to know that Emma Bird is back in the director’s chair. Alfie Heywood’s amazing set has bridged the gap between Walton and Nashville, while James Breckon has arranged the music quite beautifully and Bev Edmund’s choreography has kept everyone in step.

Take Me Home County Road

A Liverpool's Royal Court Production Starring Eithne Browne, Helen Carter, Adam McCoy, Keddy Sutton and Lenny Wood.

Directed by Emma Bird • Musical Director James Breckon • Movement Director Beverley Edmunds Set and Costume Design by Alfie Heywood • Lighting Design by Doug Kuhrt AV Design by Jamie Jenkin • Sound Design by Kate Harvey

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Cast Joan Shelly Anthony Margy Mick

Eithne Browne Helen Carter Adam McCoy Keddy Sutton Lenny Wood

Company Writer Director Musical Director Movement Director Set and Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Video Designer

Adam McCoy Emma Bird James Breckon Beverley Edmunds Alfie Heywood Doug Kuhrt Kate Harvey Jamie Jenkin

Production Manager Technical Manager Head of Wardrobe Company Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Wardrobe Supervisor LX Programmer AV Programmer Production Electrician LX1 Sound No.1 Stage Crew Dresser

Sean Gannon Daniel Taylor Mitch Fujii-Williams Lizzie O’Sullivan Laura Spallen Steph Carter Eden Easterbrook Jimmi Richardson Phil Dickinson Ged Campbell Holly Freeman Danny Haydock Joe Baron Caz Davies

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Which Are The Lines Man An interview with actor and playwright Adam McCoy

Adam McCoy was listening to Tammy Wynette sing Stand by Your Man when he experienced what might be described as an epiphany.

inspired by the lyrics of the songs, but also by this idea of never giving up on your dream – or it never being too late for your dream.”

Because not only did the First Lady of Country Music’s most famous song bring back childhood memories of the wireless playing in his nan’s kitchen, and tales of his youthful mum entertaining audiences in Merseyside’s pubs and clubs.

Born and bred County Road girl Shelley’s life is OK. Work is fine, her mates are sound and hubby Mick is always there when she needs him. But something is still missing, and she looks back with fondness and regret to a time when she had ambitions of being a singer.

It also conjured up the storytelling spirit of Liverpool and the city’s rich musical heritage. And in that moment was born the idea for what, 18 months later, has become Take Me Home County Road, being premiered at the Royal Court this summer.

Next door neighbour Anthony (played by Adam) certainly believes in her talent. So much so that he enters her in the Next Big Thing competition.

The show, the Liverpool actor’s professional playwriting debut, is a celebration of community and a rallying cry to ‘carpe diem’. And it’s more than a little bit Country.

“That (Stand by Your Man) was the starting point,” he explains during a break from rehearsals on what is surely a contender for the hottest week of the year. “And then there were other songs from the genre, and I thought, right, that’s what it is. It’s a Country jukebox musical!”

As for County Road, he adds: “I wanted to set it in a community like the one I grew up around, that tight-knit Liverpool community. Then it just went from there, being

The actor, whose own family hails from North Liverpool, says: “You often hear the term ‘love letter’ and it sounds like a bit of a cliché. But it IS a bit of a love letter to all the talent – and the undiscovered talent - that makes up Liverpool’s DNA. “It’s also about having the right people around you to encourage you at the right time, to celebrate you and help to lift you in those moments of self-doubt.”

He’s outlining the show’s themes, but the 34-year-old could equally be talking about the team at the Royal Court who have nurtured Take Me Home County Road through its various permutations from initial pitch to the show audiences are now set to enjoy.

The LIPA graduate has become part of the Royal Court ‘family’, most recently appearing in The Scouse Christmas Carol, although his first show here, seven years ago, was actually downstairs in the Studio where he played Tony in Laura Lees’ Masquerade in a cast that included Eithne Browne among others.

As for Take Me Home County Road itself, while it certainly has all those elements that together make for the unique Royal Court experience, its writer is keen to point out it is as much a musical drama as a musical comedy.

He says: “My biggest hope is that people come to the show for a good time, to enjoy the music, but more than anything I hope that they see someone, even if it’s just one character on stage, that they go: ‘I know that person, I feel like I’ve met that person’.

...I wanted to set it in a community like the one I “Because I think a lot of people might see the title and think grew up around, that tight- it’s going to be all about the caricature. But actually, it’s knit Liverpool community about real people.”

Adam McCoy

Words: Catherine Jones

“I can’t say enough about how privileged I do feel, and how grateful I am to Jess (Bolger, the Court’s creative producer) and Kevin (Fearon, executive producer) for trusting me with it,” Adam says. “Their feedback has always come from a place where I know they want this show to be brilliant.”

It also helps that they have assembled a crack team of creatives whose work he admires, from director Emma Bird and choreographer Beverley Norris-Edmunds to LIPA contemporary, friend and sometime accompanist James Breckon who has come on board as musical director.

Meanwhile Adam reveals he had certain performers in mind as he crafted his characters, from the initial idea which emerged accompanied by Eithne Browne in his head singing Stand by Your Man to Helen Carter (a firm friend since they appeared together in Beauty and the Beast at the Black-E many moons ago) as Shelley to the comedy genius that is Keddy Sutton as good-hearted neighbour Margie.

And it seems dreams do come true: they are all appearing alongside him in the show, while securing Lenny Wood as the enigmatic Mick has proved the icing on the cake.

Adam McCoy with Jamie Peacock in Masquerade (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio

Cast Biographies Eithne Browne Joan

She’s back! Clocking up 20 years here at the Royal Court, Eithne has appeared in over 30 plays at first as the fabulous Ann Twacky in the record-breaking Brick up the Mersey Tunnels. From climbing out of a smoking coffin in A Thong for Europe other favourites roles include Masquerade, Merry Christmas Carol, Mam I’m ‘Ere, Dirty Dusting to name but a few.

Over a 40-year career other favourite plays include Blood Brothers, Shirley Valentine, Work It Out, Maggie May, Wuthering Heights, Tartuffe and very many more!

Television includes Brookside, Emmerdale, Room at The Top, The Responder, etc.

The past year saw Eithne in Romeo and Juliet at the Everyman.

In a new Beatles film, Blackbird, The Cage with Sheridan Smith, and working with Sam Mendes filming here in Liverpool.

But to be back here working with good mates on stage and off she’s a happy woman. Take me Home County Road is a fabulous play, and Joan was written with Eithne in mind.

Also the voice of the world-famous Mersey Ferry, she’s the one telling you to turn your phones off and ‘sit back and enjoy the show’. Enjoy!

Helen Carter Shelly Helen trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include: Conteh, The Scouse Christmas Carol, Bingo Star, The Scousetrap, Boys From The Blackstuff and Haunted Scouse (Liverpool’s Royal Court), Offered Up (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio), Shirley Valentine (Liverpool Everyman) Love Liverpool, A Christmas Carol (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre) Merry Christmas, Carol (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) My Fairfield Lady (Liverpool’s Royal Court ); The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (Hull Truck Theatre) The Star (The Liverpool Playhouse Theatre); Father O’Flaherty Save Our Souls (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Mam I’m ‘Ere (Liverpool’s Royal Court); The Sunshine Boys (Epstein Theatre;/Life in Theatre Productions); Word:Play Tour (Box of Tricks Theatre Company); The Last 5 Years (Life in Theatre Productions); The Gatekeeper (The Royal Exchange Theatre); Dead Heavy Fantastic (Liverpool Everyman); No Wise Men (Liverpool

Playhouse); Hatch (Bolton Octogon/24:7 Theatre Festival); Dad’s Army Marches On (Calibre Productions Tour); Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi (Liverpool Playhouse); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse), Top Girls (Royal Court Theatre London 50th Anniversary performance); The Honest Whore (William Poel Prize; The Globe Theatre; London).

TV Credits include: G’wed (ITV), Ruby Speaking (BBC Television), The Last Testament of Lillian Billoca (BBC Television); Wallander (Left Bank Pictures); Doctors (BBC Television); Beaten (Coastal Productions); Judge John Deed (BBC Television); A470 (S4C) Film: Through the Dunes (Empire Street Productions), 96 Ways to Say I Love You (Daisy Aitkens and Georgia Moffet).

Adam McCoy

Writer & Anthony Training: LIPA (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts) For Liverpool’s Royal Court: Scouse Christmas Carol, The Legend of Rooney’s Ring, Scouse Red Riding Hood, Scouse Dick Whittington, A Greasy Spoon and Masquerade.

Theatre credits include: The Snow Queen (The Dukes, Lancaster), Peter Pan (Crossroads Live), Boom Bang-a-Bang (Above the Stag, London), Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Young Everyman & Playhouse), Her Benny (Liverpool Empire) and The King & I (UK Tour, David Ian Productions).

Television credits include: Doctor Who (BBC), Mobile (ITV), Casualty (BBC), Holby City (BBC), House of Anubis (Nickelodeon), Merseybeat (BBC) and Brookside (Mersey TV).

Workshop credits include: Savage (Leicester Curve), Lonely Hearts Club (Unity Theatre) and Bob the Artist (Liverpool Everyman).

Other credits include: Think Yourself Lucky (Audible), Help (Channel 4), Dragonslayers (Xbox Live), KFC (Commercial) and guest vocalist for P&O Cruises, Holland America Line, and Norwegian Cruise Line.

Take Me Home County Road marks Adam’s professional writing debut. He is incredibly grateful to the team at Liverpool’s Royal Court for the opportunity to bring this story to a stage that means so much to him.

He dedicates his performance to the memory of his cousin, Matthew Daulby (matthewdaulbyfoundation.org).

Keddy Sutton

Lenny Wood

Margy

Keddy trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and with Ken Campbell’s Improvisational Company - The School of Night.

Royal Court Theatre credits include: The Legend of Rooney’s Ring, The Scouse Christmas Carol, Sisters of Mersey, A Thong For Europe, The Scouse Red Riding Hood, The Scouse Dick Whittington, The Scouse Jack and The Beanstalk, The Scouse Snow White, The Scouse Cinderella, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Scouse Nativity, Scouse Of The Rising Sun, Scousetrap, Bingo Star, Pete Price Is Dead, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Stags And Hens (Directed by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton For Capital Of Culture), Slappers And Slapheads, Terry Titters Summer Special, Selection Box and Mam I’m Ere. Other theatre credits include: Shirley Valentine (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds); Keddy was in the Liverpool Everyman Rep theatre 2017/2018, performing in Fiddler On The Roof, Paint Your Wagon, The Big I Am, A Clockwork Orange, The Sum and Conquest Of The South.

Further credits: Dreaming Of A Barry White Xmas (Liverpool M&S Banks Arena), The Queens Knickers (Southbank Centre/ Theatre Royal Bath), Beauty And The Beast (Theatre Royal Wakefield), Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal Winchester), That Sketchy Show (The Edge), All The Joy Can Bring (Shakespeare North & Slung Low), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), Ken Campbells Improvisational School Of Night (The Globe, Royal Court London, Edinburgh Fringe, Jeremy Beadles Library, National Theatre Everyman).

Television credits: Hollyoaks (Channel 4), Good Cop and Nice Guy Eddie (BBC), Fated (Ace Films). Pot Noodle Advert and Studio One Advert.

Radio/Audio credits: The City is Ours (ADR), Patterdale (BBC Radio 4), April Ashley Project (Liverpool Museum), Narrator (Chester College), 1000 Feet Deep (Periplum & Culture Knowsley) and Redwall (Brian Jacques).

Keddy has also been a proud member of her choir ‘Handbag of Harmonies’, a lifelong team of great friends.

Keddy appeared in her own driving documentary - Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.

Writing credits: Tabbard The Musical.

Co-Writing credits: Caz ‘N’ Britney Present Scottie Road The Musical (From Primark to Prison) and Mis Les (A Revolution In Rollers).

Keddy would like to dedicate the show to her mum.

Mick

Lenny is delighted to be back at the Royal Court. Starting out as a comedian as part of the duo “Lenny and his fat friend Mick”, he toured the UK and US. He has since gone on to work extensively in TV and theatre.

Theatre credits include: Lost Soul, Stags And Hens, On The Ledge, Nightcollar, A Nightmare On Lime Street, Lost Soul 2, Speedo Mick, Romeo And Juliet, The Peaceful Hour, The Scouse Christmas Carol, A Fistful Of Collars, You’ll Never Walk Alone, The Salon, Little Shop Of Horrors, Bright Pheonix, Down Our Street, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Life, Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, The Peaceful Hour 2, The Brickie, Macbeth, The Mole, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, A Christmas Carol, A Day In The Life Of Mr Lanson, Happy As Pie, Waiting For Godot, Terriers, Cheer Up, The Chitz, The Audition, The Suicide and more.

TV and film include: Birthday Boy, Under The Mud, Saffron, Northern Cowboys, Violet City, The Be All And End All, Anne, The Responder, Dead Mans Cards, Don’t Worry About Me, Being Eileen, Good Cop, The Sinking Of The Laconia, Stolen among others.

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Company Biographies Emma Bird

James Breckon

Director

Musical Director

For Liverpool’s Royal Court Emma has directed Take Me Home County Road (by Adam McCoy, August 2026), The Peaceful Hour 2 (by Gerry Linford, February 2026), The Peaceful Hour (by Gerry Linford, February 2025), Haunted Scouse (by Gerry Linford, March 2024), Bingo Star (by Iain Christie, March 2023), Stocking Fillers (December 2022), and Hey Bunny Get Loose (by Wendy Dickinson, May 2022). Prior to her work at the Royal Court, Emma directed critically acclaimed productions at Liverpool, Manchester and Brighton Fringe Festivals.

James is thrilled to be back at the Royal Court for Take Me Home County Road - having previously been Musical Director for The Legend Of Rooney’s Ring and Sisters of Mersey.

Originally an actor, Emma’s screen credits include Needle (by Jimmy McGovern, directed by Gillies MacKinnon), series regular Maxine Price in Casualty, feature films Seventeen; The Governess (directed by Sandra Goldbacher, alongside Rachel Weisz and Minnie Driver). Her theatre credits include The Good Hope (adapted by Lee Hall, alongside Frances de la Tour) at the Royal National Theatre, David Mamet’s Oleanna (Norwich Playhouse) and The Woods (Finborough Theatre), Educating Rita (Norwich Playhouse), and Terms of Abuse (Hampstead Theatre).

Emma is also one of Liverpool’s leading teachers of improvised comedy. She founded Liverpool Comedy Improv in 2015, where she continues to teach, direct and develop improvisers from beginners to professional performers.

Based in Liverpool, James is a keyboard player and musical director. His music has taken him all over the world, playing live with artists like Lucy Thomas, China Crisis, Ray Quinn, The Real People, and Natalie McCool. He has also recorded in studios around Europe for artists in the UK, Norway, and Spain.

James graduated with a first-class degree in Music from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His session and composing work has taken him around the UK and onto national TV sets, including composing for Britain’s Got Talent and appearing on BBC Sessions.

Beverley Norris-Edmunds Movement Director For Liverpool’s Royal Court: The Peaceful Hour and The Peaceful Hour 2, The Scouse Christmas Carol, The DerbyDays, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Speedo Mick, Vernons Girls, The Scouse Red Riding Hood, Thong for Europe, Scouse Trap, YNWA, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, Selection Box, Maggie May, Scouse Pacific, Lost Soul 1 and 2, The Scouse Nativity, Golden Oldies, The Royal, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Sex in Suburbia, Canoeing for Beginners, Bouncers, Council Depo Blues, Special Measures, Our Day Out The Musical, Ladies Night, Good Golly Miss Molly, Dirty Dustin’, Nightmare on Lime Street, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels 1 and 2, Merry Ding Dong, Slappers and Slap Heads, and Reds ‘n’ Blues.

Theatre: The Grand Babylon Hotel, Christmas Carol, The Card, Bright Lights Over Bentley, The D Road (Claybody Theatre), The Hounds of The Baskervilles, Good Golly Miss Molly, The Little Mermaid, A Matter of Life and Death, The Three Musketeers, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Leap in the Dark, The Nutcracker: A Christmas Fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Coppelia - A Mystery, The 39 Steps, The Prince and The Pauper, Handbagged, Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano (co-productions with Northern Broadsides), Astley’s Astounding Adventures, Playhouse Creatures, Treasure Island, The Snow Queen (UK Theatre Award winner), Peter Pan in Scarlet, Kiss Me Quickstep, I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Borrowers, A Christmas Carol, Where Have I Been All My Life, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Anna of the Five Towns, Laurel and Hardy, The Wizard of Oz, The Glee Club, Stones in His Pockets, Dancing at Lughnasa, Sweeney Todd, Oliver, Amadeus, Stepping Out, Privates on Parade, From a Jack to a King, Don Giovanni, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Carmen, Romeo and Juliet, Moll Flanders (New Vic Theatre), Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby (Storyhouse Chester), Hard Times, For Love or Money, A Winter’s Tale, Loves Labours Lost, Lisa’s Sex Strike (Northern Broadsides), Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island, The Tempest, Strange Tale (Imaginarium Theatre Company in association with Shakespeare North Playhouse), The Man Without A Past (New Perspectives Theatre Company), Wolf Red (Tmesis Theatre Company), Blues in the Night, Laurel and Hardy, Stepping Out, Sweet Charity, Oh What a Lovely War, and the first actor/musician version of Chicago - MEN Theatre Award for Best Ensemble winner (Oldham Coliseum).

Tours: The Worst Witch (Vaudeville Theatre West End and UK Olivier Award Winner 2020 Best Show), Around The World in 80 Days (UK Tour, Broadway, Florida, Royal Exchange and New Vic Theatre), Tom, Dick and Harry (Alexandre Palace and New Vic Theatre), Marvellous (SohoPlace and New Vic Theatre),

Return to the Forbidden Planet, Carmen.

Television: Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, The Reckoning, Coronation Street, Butterfly, Hollyoaks, CBeebies’ The Magic Door, Sunny D, Fernando Torres, Nike Commercial, September Song, and Across The Universe.

Beverley has also worked on many productions for the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Bolton Octagon, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Liverpool Empire, Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Hull Truck, Haymarket Basingstoke and Harrogate Theatre.

Alfie Heywood

Doug Kuhrt

Set and Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Alfie’s recent credits as Designer include: The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood, Private Lives, Treasure Island, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Room 13, Haywire and Men Behaving Badly (Barn Theatre), Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Ellen and Rigby, A Greasy Spoon, Vernon’s Girls, Lost in Colomendy, The DerbyDays, Netherley Hillbillies, Offered Up, Omnibus (all with Liverpool’s Royal Court), A Monster Call’s and Wendy and Peter Pan (Watermill Theatre), Twelfth Night (Stafford Gatehouse), Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy), Nora: A Doll’s House, The Ballad of Maria Marten (both at Rose Bruford), Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).

Doug is delighted to return to Liverpool’s Royal Court, having previously lit Cured, Come Together, Making It, Bingo Star and Netherley Hillbillies.

Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include: Turn of the Screw and Platee (both at Garsington Opera), Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre, West End), Geisha (Northern Ballet), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre, West End), The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), La Traviata (Sante Fe Opera), Alice in Wonderland (Tulsa Ballet) and most recently Romeo and Juliet (Norwegian’s National Ballet). They are currently working on a design for The Met Opera’s production of Simon Boccanegra opening in 2027.

Alfie is delighted to be asked to design Take Me Home County Road which will be his ninth production working for Liverpool’s Royal Court.

Examples of his work can be found at www.alfieheywood.com.

He has been lighting shows for over 30 years. Favourite projects include, The Pitmen Painters (National Theatre, West End and Broadway), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (CBeebies), Party Piece, Black Coffee, Caught In The Net, Fallen Angels, Witness For The Prosecution and The Chalk Garden (Bill Kenwright Ltd), Pride and Prejudice (Imaginarium), The Broke N Beat Collective (Theatre Rites), I Told My Mum I was Going on an R.E. Trip (20 Stories High), Dreaming (Queens Theatre), King Lear (Shanghai Dramatic Arts), The Laramie Project and The 25th Putnam County Annual Spelling Bee (MMU), 3 tours with Fascinating Aida, 5 Eden Court, Inverness Pantos, 14 Oldham Coliseum Pantos and 19 years lighting the Liverpool Everyman Rock N Roll Panto!

Jamie Jenkin

Kate Harvey

AV Designer

Sound Designer and Engineer

Jamie is the in-house graphic and video designer at Liverpool’s Royal Court. Starting as marketing assistant at the theatre in 2005, he has been part of the Royal Court since it’s rebirth as a theatre in 2006. He now designs artwork for all Royal Court productions alongside working on video content for the Royal Court stage and beyond.

Video Designs for Theatre include: Alan Bleasdale’s Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham (Liverpool’s Royal Court, National Theatre and Garrick Theatre London, national tour), Come Together: The Lennon & McCartney Songbook (Liverpool’s Royal Court, national tour); Red Or Dead, Cured (Liverpool’s Royal Court in association with Birds of Paradise, national tour); A Thong For Europe, Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, A Fistful Of Collars, Lennon, Ladies Day, Hitchhikers Guide to Fazakerley, Ladies Night, Canoeing for Beginners, The Scouse Nativity, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls, A Miracle On Great Homer Street, Home, Going Halves, The Royal, The Scouse Cinderella, My Fairfield Lady, Bingo Star, Two Of Us, Royal Court Selection Box, Macca & Beth, The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery, The Scousetrap, The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk, The Scouse Dick Whittington, Haunted Scouse, Sisters Of Mersey, Haunted Scouse, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, The Scouse Red Riding Hood, The Peaceful Hour and The Peaceful Hour 2 (Liverpool’s Royal Court); Masquerade, Knee Deep In Promises, Hey Bunny Get Loose, Stocking Fillers, Cosmic and Pass The Parcel (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio); The Dream Team and VR Family (Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre); Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); Judy & Liza (National Tour); YNWA (Alterean Productions, international tour); The Big I Am (Liverpool Everyman); Celtic The Musical (Alterean Productions, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow and SEC Glasgow); Sunderland The Musical (Alterean Productions, Empire Theatre Sunderland); Something About George (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); Something About John (Something About Productions, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and national tour); The Salford Docker (Salford Community Theatre, Lighthouse Salford); Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre); and Peter Pan (Storyhouse Chester). Jamie was also Sound Designer on Hey Bunny Get Loose, Offered Up, Stocking Fillers and Cosmic (Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio) and Our Country’s Good (Hope St Theatre).

A list of sound credits include: Corporate/Outdoor : Labour, Conservative, NUT. Symphony in the Park (Hoghton Tower), Liverpool Theatre Festival (Bill Elms Productions), Grimm Tales, Jungle Book, 80 Days Around the World, Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood (Dukes Theatre, Williamson Park, Lancaster) TV: Stan James World Match Dartsplay (Sky Sports), Strictly Ballroom (ITV), Danny La Rue (BBC) Spirit of Shankly (Granada DVD) Cruises: P&O World Cruises, Island Cruises, Celebrity.

Arena: Hot Ice (Stageworks Worldwide Productions), You’ll Never Walk Alone (Alterean Media and Liverpool FC) Music: The Christians, Chesney Hawkes, Sinita, Slade, Bad Manners, Toyah, Limahl, Cream UK Tour, Petula Clarke, Bobby Crush, East 17, Liberty X, Jane McDonald.

Comedy: Jason Mansford, Peter Kay, Roy Walker, Jim Bowen, Brian Conley, Brendan O’Carroll, Paddy McGuiness.

Live Theatre: Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty (King Georges Hall), Mystique (Stageworks), Original TV Comedians (Blackpool Opera House), Paul Zerdin (Paradise Room Blackpool), Flags (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Mam I’m Ere (Life in Theatre), Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Bouncers, Night Collar, Our Day Out, Shirley Valentine, Red or Dead, Lennon, Noises Off, Lost Soul 1&2, Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Golden Oldies, Come Together, Vernons Girls (Liverpool’s Royal Court) Twopence to cross the Mersey, Lennons Banjo and By The Waters of Liverpool (Pulse Records) SHOUT! (Max Emmerson Productions), Out of Order and It Runs In The Family (Ray Cooney Comedy Company), Bang Bang (A production for John Cleese at Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Omnibus (Unity Theatre), Judy and Liza National Tour (Produced by Liverpool’s Royal Court), Midsummer Nights Dream (Filter Theatre Company/Lyric Hammersmith), Homebaked (Red Ladder Theatre Company), Insane Animals (HOME MCR), Cinderella (Imagine, Beck Theatre-Hayes), Kinky Boots (Storyhouse, Chester), Shirley Valentine (Liverpool Everyman), Jack and the Beanstalk ( Watford Palace Theatre), Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol (Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster), Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast (Imagine, Crewe Lyceum), Jungle Book (Bolton Octagon) Jack and the Beanstalk (Stafford Gatehouse, Imagine – UK PANTOMIME AWARD 2025 BEST SOUND DESIGN), Atlantis (Theatre Clywd).

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Royal Court Staff Executive Producer Kevin Fearon Chief Executive Gillian Miller Head of Finance & Administration Alan Hardman Head of Producing & Programming Jess Bolger Head of Marketing Kofi Ohene-Djan Head of Operations Ailsa Morris Executive Chef David Assall Graphic Designer & Brand Manager Jamie Jenkin Producer Clare Carlucci Assistant Producer Abigail Middleton Marketing Managers Iain Christie and Lily Hagan Workshop Manager John Kavanagh Head of Technical & Production Sean Gannon Technical Manager Dan Taylor Senior Venue Technician Phil Dickinson Head of Lighting Jimmi Richardson Lighting Technician Holly Freeman Senior Sound Technician Danny Haydock Senior Stage Technician Mark Ellis Scenic Art Manager Jen Baron Box Office & Sales Manager Lauren Macauley Assistant Box Office Manager Laura Lees Head of Wardrobe Mitch Fujii-Williams Management Accountant Marie Williams Purchase Ledger Izzie Litwin Venue Administrator Phil McLoughlin HR Officer Nichola Brady Executive Assistant Joe Morris Building Maintenance Technician Bob Smith Box Office Assistants Erika Drummond, Finn Goulden-Jennings, Carl Lees, Scarlet Lees, Amy McCormick, Anna Miller, Pat O’Neill, Susan Segar, and Angela Simms Fire Officer Louis Carley-Smith Stage Door Julia D’Arcy, Allan Dodd and Sven Key

Kitchen Chefs Thomas Alexander, Maciej Gumieniuk, Jay Quinn, Harrison McLaughlin Kitchen Supervisors Keane Pritchard, and Jack While Kitchen Porters Hezekiah Abramson, Dillion Bagley, Louise Dodd, Harry Lawlor, Emmeline Linforth, Dean Robinson and Luke Sweeney Front Of House FOH Manager Kathy Hutson Assistant FOH Manager Paul Imrie FOH Supervisors Jordan Barkley, Sammie Hunter, Ellie Wilcox and Katie Sherman Café 38 Supervisors - Tom Patterson, Sammie Hunter Front of House Staff Kane Bagnall, Hazel Bawden, Rhianna Beesley, Mustafa Bshaena, Sam Byrne, Louis Carney-Smith, Emily Cook, John Donachie-Ashcroft, Holly Evans, Lily Hutson, Callum Johnstone, Raia Kiernan, Jackie Kirton, Abby Livingstone, Phil Lyne, Lukas Matuzevicius, Amy McCormick, Joseph O’Neill, Niamh Powers, Anila Rais, Isabella Renshaw, Theo Stock-Best, Aiva Tambourini, Ben Verdin and Samantha Woolley.

Cleaning & KP Supervisor Debbie Chisam Cleaners Joanne Kinsella, Claire Wilson and Julie Wright.

And a big thank you to all of our freelance and security staff for their hard work throughout the year.

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4 to 30 December Tickets from £16

Downstairs at Liverpool’s Royal Court, 1 Roe St, Liverpool L1 1HL

6 Nov 2026 to 16 Jan 2027 Tickets from £17 Full cast and more info here

19 February to 13 March Tickets from £17 Full cast and more info here