Canary - A new play by Jonathan Harvey, directed by Hettie Macdonald, Designed by Liz Ascroft - English Touring Theatre - ETT

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Canary
- A new play by Jonathan Harvey, directed by Hettie Macdonald, Designed by Liz Ascroft
An English Touring Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Hampstead Theatre production

In 1960’s Liverpool Tom and Billy hide in the closet, then go their separate ways. As pits close and the dole queues grow, Mickey and Russell escape to find Heaven in 1980’s London. But today the paparazzi turn judge and jury over a love story that could tear this family apart. And then Ellie gets lost up a mountain with a vicar...

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

A wonderfully ambitious, often surreal and unashamedly heart-on-sleeve romp…there are things in Hettie Macdonald's fluid, light-touch production that I'll remember always...This is a play that screams do not go gently and do not keep silent

The Guardian

Written by the multi award-winning Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Hushabye Mountain & Coronation Street) and directed by Hettie Macdonald who once again collaborates with Jonathan having directed both the original stage and film versions of his glorious Beautiful Thing.

A stellar cast includes Paula Wilcox (Man about the House, The Smoking Room, Emmerdale) and Sean Gallagher (Linda Green, Heartbeat, Coronation Street)

A powerhouse of touring theatre, ETT works with a rich mix of the country’s leading and emerging artists to stage thrilling and ambitious theatre that is vigorous, popular and entertaining. Following their triumphant production of Roger McGough’s The Hypochondriac in 2009, ETT again joins forces with Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres, applauded for levels of creative excellence and an integrated programme that has generated critical acclaim in Liverpool and around the UK.

Contains adult language, nudity & scenes and images of a sexual nature

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