Little Women takes the stage at the Playhouse

Anne-Marie Casey’s new stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s much-loved and timeless story of Little Women is coming to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 4 November to Saturday 8 November.

Set during the Civil War era, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy as they navigate sisterhood and the unbreakable bonds of love and family. The novel has become one of the most widely read in the world, and its most recent film adaptation, starring Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh was a global hit. Now, this beautifully crafted adaptation is brought to life on stage in a fresh new theatre production.

This production is directed by Loveday Ingram (Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Liverpool Playhouse) and features Belinda Lang (Sister Boniface Mysteries, 2point4 Children) reprising her role as Aunt March. TV BAFTA award winner Juliet Aubrey joins the cast as Marmee (Middlemarch, Professor T, All Creatures Great and Small).

The March sisters are played by Jade Oswald (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical, Theatre Royal Bath) as Meg, Natalie Dunne as Jo (The Girl on the Train, UK tour; Party Games, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Jewelle Hutchinson (Stiletto, Charing Cross Theatre; Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Nottingham Playhouse) as Amy, and Megan Richards, making her professional stage debut, as Beth.

Completing the cast are Tom Richardson (Twelfth Night, Hamlet, The Orange Tree) as Brooke/Bhaer, and Perry Williams (Maud, The Vaults; Player Kings, Noël Coward Theatre) as Laurie.

Inspired by author Louisa May Alcott’s own journey into womanhood, Little Women is as relevant today as it was at the time of its first release, proving that women can be bold, persistent, self-assured, and the heroes of their own story.

Anne-Marie Casey’s stage adaptations include Wuthering Heights, adapted from the novel by Emily Brontë, and Tess, a circus adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel.

Playwright Anne-Marie Casey said:

“The book is a phenomenon. The characterisations are so interesting. It is unique in 19th-century fiction with strong women characters in that they are proactive. Everyone is going to relate to this – male, female, kids… The characters are iconic.”

Following the recent success of the Greta Gerwig film, this beautiful new adaptation of Little Women is a celebration of women, filled with laugher, tears and a theatrical, heartwarming lifting of the spirits.

Little Woman plays at Liverpool Playhouse Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 November. Tickets are available here.