THE spirit of the Everyman Theatre will be celebrated in a special series of performances this autumn.

Seven writers have been invited to create individual works for the Unbound season, which will take audiences out of the venue and into the city’s streets.

In an unusual twist, visitors will not know which of the shows they have booked tickets for until it is under way.

Unbound will be overseen by groundbreaking theatre company Slung Low, the team who brought Small Worlds to the Playhouse last week.

Matt Angove, of Slung Low, said: "We try and break down the stereotype of sitting down watching people entertain you.

"We may take you on a great big hike up a mountain. We could stick you in a car park or take you on a coach."

The seven individual pieces will be based on the themes in John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore.

A production of the 17th century play will also form a central part of the Unbound six-week programme, which will mark the demolition of the current Hope Street building before it is rebuilt as a new theatre.

Local writers involved in the project include Liverpool’s Lizzie Nunnery and Esther Wilson, whose verbatim play Unprotected premiered at the Everyman in 2006 and has been broadcast on Radio 4, and Laurence Wilson, whose new play Tiny Volcanoes begins its UK tour this summer.

Students from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts will also be involved in Unbound, while the Everyman Youth Theatre will create its own work on the same theme.