Everyword 2013

INFORMATION Where to Find Us This year it’s a site specific festival in the crumbling splendour of The Royal School for the Blind (on Hope Street, opposite the RLPO and Philharmonic Pub),so do wrap up warm and wear comfortable footwear.

With thanks to our Partners

DAILY DIARY

Tickets Readings and workshops The Music Rooms

£5 £2

Day Tickets: Thursday / Saturday £9.50 Friday £15 Festival Pass: All events £30

With thanks to our Funders

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14 – 16 NOV 2013

Thursday 14 November

Friday 15 November

Friday 15 November

Saturday 16 November

2pm - 4.30pm

1pm - 4pm

6.45pm

2pm - 4pm

The Nation of Wales is Our Stage John McGrath from National Theatre Wales shares his experience of working with writers and directors in creating work in found spaces across Wales.

Belonging With Lindsay Rodden (Literary Associate) and playwright Stephen Sharkey: A practical writing workshop for playwrights exploring found stories, spaces and other things left behind.

The Music Rooms

By Laurence Wilson with music by Excalibah, directed by Matthew Xia.

Unsung The remarkable story of Edward Rushton celebrated with a reading from this new play, and a discussion with the creators. In partnership with DaDaFest and Turf Love, written by John Graham Davies and James Quinn, directed by Matt Rutter.

6.45pm The Music Rooms

By Tayo Aluko, with Oludele Olaseinde.

7.45pm

Thanks to Liverpool City Council for its financial support

DAILY DIARY

Bright Phoenix Jeff Young’s epic and poetic play – a Liverpool homecoming.

Script in hand performance, directed by Serdar Bilis.

4.30pm Revolution Find out what young people believe in, what makes them angry, and what being ‘political’ means for them today. Devised by Young Everyman Playhouse with Young Writer Laura Kate Barrow.

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7.45pm Cop Thriller Joe Ward Munrow and Elinor Cook team up with director Charlotte Gwinner and Sarah Butcher to create a bespoke thriller.

6.45pm The Music Rooms

By Lizzie Nunnery, with Vidar Norheim and Martin Heslop, directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder.

7.45pm A Rook Flew Through The Room A reading of a new play by David Spencer: the story of one man’s bittersweet love / hate affair with life, performed by George Costigan and Niall Costigan.

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EVERY word EVERYWORD HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

NEW STORIES INSPIRING WORKSHOPS AND CREATIVE IDEAS WWW.EVERYMANPLAYHOUSE.COM 0151 709 4776

14 – 16 NOV 2013

PERFORMANCES

EVERYWORD IS FOR EVERYONE WHO WRITES, OR WANTS TO WRITE, FOR PERFORMANCE; AND FOR THOSE EXCITED BY THE THEATREMAKING PROCESS OR WHO ARE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN A THEATRE-MAKERS BRAIN.

Every day at 6.45pm

Fri 15 Nov at 7.45pm

Bright Phoenix

Unsung

Jeff Young’s epic and poetic play receives a script in hand performance, directed by Serdar Bilis (The May Queen, Proper Clever). Bright Phoenix is an homage to Liverpool taking us into the heart and soul of our beloved city: onto the roofs, into lost cinemas and secret gardens, exploring idealism, fatalism, guilt and homecoming.

Edward Rushton was Liverpool’s most implacable opponent of slavery (although often overlooked by historians), and was also the original founder of the Blind School in 1791. In partnership with DaDaFest and Turf Love, we celebrate his remarkable story with a rehearsed reading of the first half of Unsung, a new play remembering this extraordinary man and the times he lived through. There will also be a discussion with the team including writers John Graham Davies and James Quinn, and director Matt Rutter.

This year we take you and our writers on a journey… ...into the secret spaces and hidden places of The Royal School for the Blind on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street.

Everyword invites you to explore new plays in new ways.

PERFORMANCES

WORKSHOPS

The Music Rooms

Cop Thriller

Three miniature musicals inspired by the Blind School and its rich history both as a musical training ground for partially sighted children, and later the site of The Picket social club. A cocktail of composers, writers and directors come together to create a series of musical shorts from Lizzie Nunnery (Intemperance, Swallowing Dark) with Vidar Norheim and Martin Heslop; Tayo Aluko (Call Mr Robeson) with Oludele Olaseinde; and Laurence Wilson (Urban Legend, Lost Monsters) with Excalibah.

A cop show based on an original crime from Liverpool’s past, when the Blind School was headquarters for the Police Special Squad during the 1920s. Playwrights Joe Ward Munrow (Held) and Elinor Cook (this year’s George Devine winner) team up with Sarah Butcher (Artist / Producer with non zero one and Hide&Seek) and Charlotte Gwinner (Associate Director at Everyman and Playhouse) to create a bespoke thriller. The investigation has begun…

The Nation of Wales is Our Stage

Thu 14 Nov at 7.45pm

Revolution

Sat 16 Nov at 2pm

Find out what young people believe in, what makes them angry, and what being ‘political’ means for them today. Devised by Young Everyman Playhouse with Young Writer Laura Kate Barrow.

A Rook Flew Through The Room

Fri 15 Nov at 4.30pm

For a few hours each week, Jim escapes to a rented room. Here he is free from his family, his drinking, from even the tumultuous century unfolding around him. But tonight he is not alone – not without his younger self for company. George Costigan and Niall Costigan play Jim in this reading of a heartbreaking, and often very funny, new play from David Spencer.

Our partners in the festival are LIPA and their talented team of design and production students, and Hope Street Hotel. The team at the Hope Street Hotel have been instrumental in making this Festival happen and we are very grateful for their support.

Sat 16 Nov at 7.45pm

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John McGrath from National Theatre Wales shares his experience of working with writers and directors in creating work in found spaces across Wales.

Thu 14 Nov from 2pm to 4.30pm

BeLonging A workshop with Lindsay Rodden, Literary Associate for the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and playwright Stephen Sharkey (The May Queen; the Liverpool Playhouse production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui). A practical writing workshop for playwrights exploring found stories, spaces and other things left behind. Maximum 15 participants.

Fri 15 Nov from 1pm to 4pm

The Inkwell Pull up a chair and get yourself a drink in The Inkwell, a place to create and collaborate, talk and think or just soak up the Festival atmosphere.

Open from 12 noon each day until late

The Graffiti Plays A celebration of Liverpool playwrights, the art of typography and the visceral act of writing. Designed by Chris Canavan and Adele Hayter.

Thu 14 to Sat 16 Nov from 12 noon until late

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