Innovative New Writing, Great Drinks, Excellent Pies
Spend your Saturday afternoon with us over a fine pint, pie and some of the most exciting, early stage writing and some well-known faces from the North West. Pie/Pint/Play is a play-reading showcase curated by our New Works team recalling the Everyman’s impromptu Bistro script-in-hand performances of the 1970s. Ticket price (£10) includes your pie and pint of choice.
Choices: Mushroom & Asparagus (v) or Scouse Pie and any house lager or soft drink. Gluten Free options available on request.
The writers featured in the next Pie/Pint/Play are...
Leianna Boodaghian Owens
Leianna is a writer with Armenian-Liverpool heritage. She graduated from LIPA with a degree in community drama in 2016 and last year completed the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Playwrights’ Programme. She is a mum of two and has a passion for creating and performing in her own work. Leianna was inspired by reading Unprotected (Everyman 2006) to write plays that she feels need to be heard, and to create conversation. Leianna will be performing an extract from her play The Weight of Repopulating a Nation.
Conway McDermott
Conway is a non-binary writer with a background in political and queer theatre. A regular contributor to Liverpool's Coach House Theatre Collective, and long-time collaborator with Hungry Bitches Theatre Company, their work has been staged in venues as grand as the Theatre Royal Stratford East, and as humble as a city centre kitchen. They are currently working on a commission for Popelei's Year of the Woman, and developing a large scale musical with Rigmarole Productions. Conway will be performing a new monologue entitles It is my will that Margaret Thatcher should die on the toilet
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Luke Barnes
Luke Barnes is a Liverpool playwright and screenwriter; His work includes All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Bush Theatre with Middle Child), No One One Tell Me When To Start A Revolution (Hampstead Theatre), Chapel Street (Bush Theatre), Bottleneck (Soho Theatre with HighTide), and The Sad Club (National Theatre; Connections). His most recent work Jumper Factory at the Young Vic, was created in collaboration with inmates at HMP Wandsworth. His favourite pie is that saag paneer one from Pie Minister.