Birds of a Feather Flies back to Northwest, 7 May

Following in the footsteps of previous TV hits – Hi-De-Hi, Dad’s Army, Yes, Prime Minister and dinnerladies – the latest sit-com to hit the stage is the Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran penned – Birds of a Feather and following huge success at the Blackpool Grand, and the Lowry – returns to the North West in May – at the Liverpool Empire.

The
premise saw two sisters: Sharon and Tracey Stubbs, who’ve been living
very different lives with very different experiences of marriage,
suddenly brought together when both their spouses are convicted of armed
robbery. For hard-up Sharon her husband Chris’s crime comes as no
surprise but Tracey, who’d been living a nouveau-riche dream life in
Chigwell, is shell-shocked to find her beloved Darryl could be a
criminal.

A massive hit from the word go in 1989, Birds of a Feather
eventually clocked up nine seasons and remains not only a classic
comedy but also, as a female-centred long-running series, a rare thing.

This
stage version comes to the Lowry and Blackpool Grand with all three of
its original leading cast members, Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and
Lesley Joseph as their much-loved characters, sisters Sharon
Theodopolopoudos and Tracy Stubbs and their sex-mad neighbour, Dorien
Green, in a brand-new show created especially for the theatre by The
Comedy Theatre Company, producers of the highly-successful tour of
Victoria Wood’s dinnerladies.

Birds of a Feather is at the Liverpool Empire from 7 May – 11 May.