Stars of stage and screen turn out for opening night of the Caretaker at Liverpool Everyman

Oct 8 2009 by Laura Sharpe, Liverpool Daily Post

LEGENDARY American singers and popular British actors were among stars at the opening night of The Caretaker in Liverpool last night.

Grammy award-winning soul and R ’n’ B singer Deniece Williams graced the Everyman arm-in-arm with jazz singer Freda Payne. Hot on their heels were Neil Pearson, of Drop the Dead Donkey fame, and Nicholas le Provost, whose list of television credits includes Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War.

The show, starring stage and screen star Jonathan Pryce, has brought him back to the theatre where he started his career as artistic director in the 1970s.

The 62-year-old star of Evita and Pirates of the Caribbean is mysterious tramp Davies, in Harold Pinter’s modern classic.