Liverpool actress Cathy Tyson stars in Edinburgh Festival hit Monkey Bars
The production was scripted by writer and director Chris Goode after he heard more than 40 eight-to-ten-year-old children talking about their lives; about being scared and being brave; about their family, faith, and favourite sweets; and their perspective on the adult world that surrounds and awaits them.
The intriguing transcripts were then transplanted into
the world of grown-ups, with adults re-enacting the conversations in adult situations.
Goode said: “
Monkey Bars has been a complete delight to work on: constantly hilarious but also, in what the children are saying, full of moments of poignancy and profundity.” Monkey Bars” will run at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio from 1-5 October.– Rebecca Cohen