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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Laura Davis

Everyman & Playhouse needs your stories to create a virtual love letter to Liverpool during lockdown

The Everyman and Playhouse theatres are calling for your stories to help create a digital journey through Liverpool City Region.

Love Liverpool: An A-Z of Hope will combine audio, video and written word in a series of weekly love letters - to Liverpool, from Liverpool.

Each week, it will take readers to a different place in the city, with stories ready to be explored.

It will also include commissioned work by local artists and digital "picnics" put together by some of the theatres' well-known friends.

Whether it’s a place that always reminds you of home, or a coffee shop where you broke up with your first love, the stories will be put together to create a tapestry of memories and feelings attached to the streets of the city.

This could be a monologue or poem of joyful memories, funny anecdotes and even the stories somewhere that may be a little painful to visit now. Click HERE for further information and to submit your story.

Gemma Bodinetz, the theatres' artistic director, said: "With our buildings in lockdown we wanted to create an opportunity to interact with our audiences, communities and artists.

"Love, Liverpool is a digital project that we hope the whole city will want to enjoy. It’s a digital geographic journey of memories through the city and along the route we’ve asked some rather special people to provide some digital picnics and literary inspiration."

Artists already commissioned for the project include Amina Atiq, Luke Barnes, Mandy Redvers-Rowe and Chloë Moss.

Anyone who wishes to take part will need to submit a short summary of a story, monologue or poem about Liverpool before 5pm on Wednesday, May 13. The Everyman & Playhouse team will then select a number of stories to be included in the project.

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