It’s just over a week since our latest show, She’s Leaving Home, premiered in a real living room in the Granby area of Toxteth, and since then audiences and critics have been enchanted by the intimate, magical and unexpected surprises created by the team.

The show, part of Sgt Pepper at 50 and created with Phelim McDermott (Improbable) is inspired by the track of the same name on the legendary Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Alexis Petridis – The Guardian

“She’s Leaving Home may just be the festival highlight… what the show, which boasts an extraordinary performance by Brodie Arthur, really shares with She’s Leaving Home [the original track from Sgt Pepper] is its empathy and even-handedness, its sense that that small details have the biggest emotional impact.”

Catherine Jones – The Stage ****

“Brodie Arthur, a graduate of 20 Stories High’s youth theatre, is a confident and natural young performer who brings utter believability to the role.

With some inventive and lyrically symbolic puppetry sequences performed by Zoe Hunter, and live music, in turn melancholic and melodic, from cellist and composer Semay Wu, this is a singular show that will keep the conversation going long after the front door has slammed shut for a final time.”

Thought-provoking immersive theatre created by, for and in the community

Clare Brennan  – The Observer ****

“A creation (that) prises open cracks in the ordinary… The terraced house in which we sit transforms into a magical realist world, sensitively realised under Julia Samuels’s direction. Keith Saha’s script catches the cadences of teenage speech, flecked with poetry.”

As well as these reviews, we have had fantastic responses from our brilliant audiences too.
Responses such as …

“I think every teenage girl in L8 should see this”

“Funny, moving, heartbreaking and beautifully performed.”

“Easily the most personal and immersive piece I’ve seen”

The show tours to private homes across the Liverpool 8 postcode from 10 to 18 June 2017.

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