Near Miss is set in the cool, chaos of 00s Liverpool where the backdrop of a frenzied fake optimism and fantasy cannot last…

The play follows a young wife, mother, teacher – running from her past, hiding in her present. Desperate to maintain the facade of the normality of her life – she contradicts the chaos with her calm and pushes the darkness deep inside. Through a piercing vision into her persona within her classroom, the play explores the relentless pursuit of a life more ordinary and cascades the other lives that are hidden or protected within her.

Near Miss is a one woman show starring Samantha Alton, directed by Margaret Connell and produced by Jennifer Vaudrey. It is part of the Watching Windows Trilogy – a set of three plays written by Helena Rand. Each play is inspired by her real life experience and other women’s stories. The first play Rotten Apple, follows the main character Korina, moving to New York in the early 90’s as an aspiring actress.

There she meets a young director Al and the play follows their whirlwind relationship, which ends in tragedy. In Near Miss, we now meet Korina  in 2005 back in Liverpool as a high-school English teacher, young mother and wife. Although it deals with some quite difficult subject matters, Near Miss is also a real celebration of working class women in Liverpool and a nostalgic feel for life there in the early 2000s.

Although theatre productions quiet down a little during the Summer months, Liverpool’s Unity Theatre is presenting 2 shows this July, this play and next week “No one will tell me how to start a revolution“. Both plays showcase strong female lead characters and share themes of learning and self-discovery through the lens of Liverpool and Scouse identity. 

Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th July, 7:30pm | Tickets Here