First performed as a rehearsed reading at the Everyword literary festival, The Electric Hills is the next world première at the Everyman of a new Liverpool play by a Liverpool writer. Michael McLean is a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers Programme and Henry Cotton Writers on Attachment Scheme.

The irresistibly inventive Peepolykus company bring their unique, madcap take on Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece The Hound of The Baskervilles for their Everyman debut from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 February as part of a nationwide tour.

To open their full and varied programme of theatrical delights for Spring-Summer 2007 the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres present the first of five 'Made in Liverpool' productions - Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning modern classic, Our Country's Good. Set in Australia in a penal colony in 1789 and based on historical records, this tribute to the transforming power of theatre sees convicts and Officers unite as they present their amateur production of The Recruiting Officer.

A servant-girl sacrifices her own safety and the love of her sweetheart to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition - the chalk circle - to resolve the dispute. Who wins?