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Series looking at the best in theatre, playwriting and live performance across the UK.

Broadcast from a new town or city each month, Opening Night gives listeners a backstage pass to the best in theatre, playwriting and live performance across the UK.

Opening Night: Liverpool

07/04/2018

Liverpool

BBC Radio 4 - Opening Night, Liverpool

Lindsey finds out how a theatre in Liverpool is addressing race and gender identity.

Monthly series that gives listeners a backstage pass to the best in theatre. Lindsey Chapman finds out how a theatre in Liverpool is addressing race and gender identity.

Lindsey Chapman presents another edition of the series that looks at the range and diversity of theatre around Britain. This week we are in Liverpool hearing how theatre in the city is dealing with contemporary issues around race and gender identity. We are alongside the cast of the Everyman Theatre's latest production of Othello, in which the lead character is played as a woman, we hear from the founder of BAME theatre group Boisterous and from the city's longest running grass roots, queer theatre company, Grin.

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