Hope Place

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Something's up with Maggie. She's rattling around in the house on Hope Place that she's lived in all her life. Her brothers and sisters flew the nest long ago but everyone's still got a key. Brother Jack keeps turning up with his own Liverpool folklore, invented to delight foreign tourists, but all Maggie wants is to unlock the past and free herself. Her niece's new boyfriend might just have the answer.A story of myths, memories and secrets, Michael Wynne's Hope Place was specially commissioned for the opening season of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and premiered there in May 2014.

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Michael Wynne was born and brought up in Birkenhead. His first play, The Knocky (Meyer-Whitworth Award - Best New Playwright and Best New Writer Nomination - Writers' Guild), was produced by the Royal Court. His other credits for the Royal Court include Who Cares, The Priory (Olivier Award - Best New Comedy), The People Are Friendly, The Red Flag, Friday Night Sex (with Alecky Blythe) and I'm Not Here - The Living Newspaper. Wynne's work also includes the first new play at the rebuilt Liverpool Everyman, Hope Place, and Canvas (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Sell Out (Best Off West End - Time Out Theatre Awards) and Dirty Wonderland (both Frantic Assembly), Tits/Teeth (Soho Theatre), The Boy Who Left Home (Actors Touring Company), We Are Here (La Mama, New York) and The Star (Liverpool Playhouse). He has also written extensively for screen, including My Summer of Love (BAFTA - Best British Film, Evening Standard Film Awards; Best Screenplay, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival; joint winner of the Directors' Guild Award for Best British Film), Lapland and Being Eileen for the BBC.