KEY events: The Arts Editor's Pick of the Day

Apr 16 2008 by Phil Key, Liverpool Daily Post

COMEDY: Still Alive! is the title of this show by Britain’s leading comediennes, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is their first theatre tour for seven years and threat-ened to be their last. Some best-loved French and Saunders characters on show with a lot of new material. Tonight and to-morrow, 7.30pm, Liver-pool Empire. £29.50 and £32.50. 0844 847 2525.

THEATRE: Samuel Beckett’s curious drama Endgame in a new production from the Everyman com-pany finds Matthew Kelly back in his old theatre, this time with son Matthew Rixon. Kelly plays a man who can’t stand up, Rixon his son/slave who can’t sit down. They bicker in their home while aged parents (Tina Gray and Ciaran McIntyre) vegetate inside dustbins. Outside, the world seems to be going mad. Lucy Pitman-Wallace directs. Official First Night tonight, 7.45pm, Liverpool Everyman. Tickets tonight £9. Otherwise £10 and £12.50. Until May 3. 0151 709 4776.

COMEDY: He’s only jok-ing when he claims to be Britain’s most frightening comedian (he’s got an Iranian background) but Omid Djalili, top, is cert- ainly one of the funniest. Tonight, 8pm, Philhar- monic Hall, Liverpool. £19 and £24. 0151 709 3789.

NOW BOOKING

ONE of Britain’s greatest artists, Sir Stanley Spencer, has a special display at the Tate, Liverpool, where his daughters Shirin and Unity will be in conversation with Tate archive curator Adrian Glew in a one-off event. The conversation will centre on the works on show in Liverpool. Tomorrow, Tate Liverpool, 6pm-7.30pm. Tickets £7 (concessions £5.50). 0151 702 7400.