Beating Berlusconi spends one night at Floral Pavilion, 5 Sept

It’s the one man show that refuses to die. One actor, one city, forty characters and lots of laughter and tears – this is Beating Berlusconi.

Fresh from ecstatic reviews and a huge word-of-mouth following, Paul Duckworth and his forty characters return to the Liverpool at the Floral Pavilion following previous successful runs in the North West.

Istanbul, May 25th 2005 – the ghosts of Shankly, Paisley and Fagan prepare for resurrection!

Despite threats from his wife and his bank manager, middle-aged Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul in May 2005 to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a Red – Heysel, Hillsborough, Alex Ferguson – and of living in a city which has been demonised. What Liverpool FC achieved in the second half is dramatic legend. What happened to Kenny in the AC Milan Executive Suite is stranger than fiction.

Written by acclaimed BBC Radio 4 writer and former Hollyoaks star John Graham Davies and starring outstanding Liverpool actor Paul Duckworth (Ringo in Backbeat), Beating Berlusconi is based on a bizarre real life event – a Scouser ending up sitting next to Italy’s infamous Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as the lads on the pitch turn the world upside-down.

Using stand-up comedy, comic monologue and the ghost of Bill Shankly, this is the true story of one man’s attempt to rediscover his belief in himself, his club and his city.

Beating Berlusconi is at the Floral Pavilion on 5 September.