Sum, The

I’m a number’s person. Always have been.Eve's been doing the maths her whole life. But when the squeeze comes, how do you balance a life that doesn't add up and a family that refuses to read the bottom line?A play with songs about searching for the magic formula in hard times, The Sum by Lizzie Nunnery premiered at Liverpool Everyman in May 2017.

Lizzie is an award-winning playwright. Her work includes, The Swallowing Dark, which was produced by the Liverpool Everyman and Theatre 503 and was a finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Intemperance, produced by the Everyman, Unprotected, which was awarded the Amnesty International Award for Freedom of Expression and a musical Narvik which was described as a “thrillingly enigmatic memory play” by the Guardian. Narvik toured the UK in 2017. The Sum, an adaption of her radio play of the same name, was part of the Everyman Company’s inaugural season. Lizzie writes extensively for radio and has penned numerous original dramas and adaptations for Radio 4. She is also a singer-songwriter.