Award-winning Liverpool poet and playwright Lizzie Nunnery is touring a brand new show this spring, inspired by iconoclastic Mersey Sound poet Adrian Henri.
Described as a ‘modern day Under Milk Wood’, Horny Handed Tons of Soil explores how the landscape of Liverpool 8 - the same area that recently featured on the BBC’s hit TV show A House Through Time - has changed over the past 50 years.
Horny Handed Soil blends spoken word, live music and field recordings and is written and performed by Lizzie Nunnery (Winner of UK Theatre’s Best New Play award for Narvik), together with Vidar Norheim.
It arrives at The Stables on Thursday (April 19).
“For a long time I’ve been performing live as a musician and incorporating spoken word in to my set, but the length of this piece meant I could go much further in crafting a narrative, exploring Liverpool 8 and sparking off the Mersey poets’ renderings of the city," Lizzie Nunnery said.
"It’s been wonderful working with composers Vidar Norheim, Martin Heslop & Martin Smith alongside videographer Tim Brunsden and designer Laura Lomax to push the piece beyond a poem set to music, turning it in to a cross disciplinary show with all the energy of a gig and the inventiveness of a happening. I like to think Adrian Henri would approve of the experiment!”
In this unique performance – especially for The Stables – Lizzie and Vidar Norheim will perform an opening set of songs from their previous albums Company of Ghosts and Black Hound Howling, which will then be followed by an intimate, acoustic performance of Horny Handed Tons of Soil.
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