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Breezeblock Park...
- The Play
- Originally commissioned and directed by Alan Dosser for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in 1975.
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A new production of this play was directed by Alan Dosser for the Mermaid Theatre, London in August 1977, which transferred to the Whitehall Theatre in September of the same year.
A comedy about the sadness and madness of happy family life, Willy Russell’s Breezeblock Park is at once painfully funny and sharply moving. The play is set on a Liverpool housing estate at Christmas.
Christmas Eve and a close-knit Liverpool family gather for the festivities. But lurking beneath the glitzy gift wrap, tired tinsel and fairy lights lie concealed jealousies, petty squabbles and a secret. As the drinks flow, feather’s fly and a daughter’s news threatens to tear the family apart. Betty and Reeny are sisters, Tommy is their brother.
- First produced at the Everyman in 1975, Breezeblock Park was a sell-out success. Almost thirty years on, Glen Walford made a welcome return to direct a new production featuring an outstanding Liverpool cast including Pauline Daniels and Michael Starke.
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