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.  Cast also includes Ian Hogg, Martin Hutson, Oliver Hoare, Gracy Goldman, Aicha Kossoko, Simon Manyonda, Offue Okegbe, Robert Orme and Mark Sutherland, with design by Peter McKintosh and lighting design by Paul Pyant.

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.

EVERYMAN UNBOUND opens at the Everyman in September with John Ford’s ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, first published in 1633, and still one of the most shocking and powerful theatre stories of all time.  This explosive new production, directed by Chris Meads, will inspire an ANTHOLOGY of seven new stories by some of the Everyman’s most innovative playwrights.  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.

The journey continues in November with YOUNG EVERYMAN UNBOUND, when the next generation of the Everyman, the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre, fired by‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE and ANTHOLOGY, unleash their youthful energy into the theatre and beyond its walls.

For next world première at the Playhouse, Peepolykus, the team behind West End hit The Hound of the Baskervilles, working with Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz, have created a brand new Christmas comedy. NO WISE MEN, written by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, with Javier Marzan, and directed by Gemma Bodinetz, is an hilarious, magical and absurd tale about a reckless man who risks everything one Christmas Eve.  Peepolykus have won fans in Liverpool and across the world with their riotous collision of verbal surprises and visual ingenuity, which, in this Everyman and Playhouse co-production, sees reality and the ridiculous collide in what 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 from one of Liverpool audiences’ favouritetouring theatre companies.  Following Medea and The Canterbury Tales, in September they bring their new production of Harold Brighouse’s spirited comedy about two football families, THE GAME, directed by Barrie Rutter.

In November at the Everyman Jeff Merrifield’s HIT ME! THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF IAN DRURY, 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 andWith 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 ofDECLARATIONS, featuring four unique pieces by Warren Adams, Aletta Collins, Isira Makuloluwe and Philip Taylor. In November, to launch the DaDaFest International 10, Choreographer Heidi Latsky and Alliger Arts present the UK première of GIMP - an international dance phenomenon following sell out performances across the USA.

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, and musical director Tayo Akinbode, spin their magic again with some familiar faces in a talented ensemble of actor/musicians to guarantee another wonderful night out for all the family to end the season.

For more information please see the Everyman and Playhouse Website: http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/