What's On: Liverpool Playhouse from Friday 6 February until Saturday 28 February.
Two brothers discover The Price of sacrifice as the value of their lives is calculated with the furniture in classic drama from Arthur Miller.
In the first "Made in Liverpool" production following the hugely successful Capital of Culture year, the Everyman and Playhouse theatres bring a searing family drama by one of America's greatest ever playwrights, Arthur Miller, in a co-production with Nottingham Playhouse.
After the popularity with Liverpool audiences of Miller's All My Sons and The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Price is another strong tale of a family torn apart by money. As the world once again faces a global crisis, rarely has the tale of two brothers confronting their sibling rivalry and contrasting fortunes been more poignant.
Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director, Giles Croft, is at the helm of a cast that includes Jon Rumney and Elaine Claxton at the Liverpool Playhouse from Friday 6 February until Saturday 28 February.
It's time to pay. New York City,1968. Sixteen years since brothers Victor and Walter last spoke. On their father's death, reunited at the family home, they find they have more than just furniture to dispose of. As the bulldozers gather outside the brownstone, octogenarian furniture dealer and one-time acrobat Solomon rummages and haggles his way to a great deal. Amid the sideboards and standard lamps, ghosts and grudges, each man will find more than he bargained for.
Liverpool favourite Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was a prolific playwright and a prominent figure in American culture for over six decades with a career that amassed several Tony Awards, a Drama Circle Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Miller's work often concentrates on the pursuit for prosperity and the sad repercussions for many of the "American Dream". The Price, for which he won a Tony Award, was written in 1968 and is one of Miller's later great works, where he once again tackles these themes with a moral tale for our times.
This year Director Giles Croft celebrates his tenth anniversary as Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse. A former Literary Manager of the National Theatre he has both written and directed plays. For Nottingham his directing credits include Wonderful Tennessee, Rat Pack Confidential (which won the City Life Award for Best Production, toured the UK and transferred to the West End) and All Quiet on the Western Front, his most recent production to go on national tour.
The cast of four includes: Jon Rumney, as elderly furniture dealer, Gregory Soloman. Jon's acting credits include Goering's doctor in the BAFTA award-winning documentary Goering's Last Stand (Channel 4) and Dr. Gottlieb in Ghetto (National Theatre directed by Nicholas Hytner); David Beames (Macbeth directed by Edward Hall for the Albery and Richard III RSC) plays Walter and Robin Kingsland (Ghetto National Theatre and Blood Brothers Phoenix Theatre) is Victor, and are joined by Elaine Claxton (A Winters Tale, The Relapse National Theatre and two series of Wire in the Blood Tyne Tees) who plays Esther, Victor's long-suffering but aspirational wife.
THE PRICE by Arthur Miller
Directed by Giles Croft
Designer: Dawn Allsopp
Lighting Designer: Nick Richings
Sound Designer: Jenny Tallon-Cahill
With: David Beames, Elaine Claxton, Robin Kingsland and Jon Rumney
Suitable for ages 14+
Time: Mon-Sat evenings at 7.30pm
Mtinees at 1.30pm on 19 & 26 Feb
(Matinees at 2pm on 14, 21 & 28 Feb)
Previews Friday 6 February - Wednesday 11 February
Audio Described: Thursday 26 February at 7.30pm
Captioned: Saturday 28 February at 7.30pm
Ticket prices: £9.00 - £20
Box Office: 0151 709 4776
Online Booking (24-hour): www.everymanplayhouse.com
Talk: On 9 February Giles will co-host a talk with Gemma Bodinetz, Artistic Director of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, on directing Arthur Miller and they will share their thoughts on the programming of The Price. This will be at the Liverpool Playhouse at 5.00pm. The cost of which will be £1.50 with a valid theatre ticket for The Price.
After its run at the Liverpool Playhouse The Price transfers to its co-producing theatre The Nottingham Playhouse from 11-29 March 2009. www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
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