Breezeblock Park

A comedy about the sadness and madness of happy family life, Willy Russell’s Breezeblock Park is at once painfully funny and sharply moving.

 

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.

First produced at the Everyman in 1975, with a cast including Julie Walters and Pete Postlethwaite, Breezeblock Park was a sell-out success. Now almost thirty years on, and after the great success of Educating Rita last year, Glen Walford makes a welcome return to direct a new production featuring an outstanding Liverpool cast including Pauline Daniels and Michael Starke.

 

The cast for this next production of 'Breezeblock Park' at the Liverpool Playhouse has been finalised and will include Pauline Daniels, Michael Starke, Annabelle Dowler, Sophie Stanton, Neil Caple, Joanna Munro (ex-Mrs Lyons in Blood Brothers), Andrew Schofield (Neville's Island), Ray Newe and Stephen Fletcher.

The play opens on the 11th December and continues until 10th January and is directed by Glen Walford.