Culture fans have enjoyed another stand-out year in Liverpool as spectacular cruise ships to poignant poppies have graced the city during 2015.

As we get ready to enter a new year though, 2016 is already shaping up to be packed with cultural highlights as Liverpool venues have been unveiling their schedules for the coming months.

The Everyman has announced it will bring ‘The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary’ to the stage during February in a co-production with Bristol Old Vic, Southampton Nuffield and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.

The critically acclaimed comedy directed by Gemma Bodinetz is based on Gustave Flaubert’s 19th Century novel ‘Madame Bovary’, and will feature a cast of five actors.

As the ongoing refurbishment of the Royal Court continues, the theatre will run Alan Bleasdale’s ‘Down the Dock Road’ on a near month-long stint from March – 40 years after it was written.

Directed by Hannah Chissick and starring Les Dennis and Andrew Schofield, the play is set in 1976 and follows the story of the Liverpool Dockyards and the tricks and scams that its many characters used to get up to.

The Walker Art Gallery will see paintings by Pre-Raphaelite artists will make their public debut from February to June, in an exhibition exploring how northern art rivalled that of London in Victorian England.

Meanwhile Bluecoat will start 2016 with its January to March display, ‘Left Hand to Back of Head, Object Held Against Right Thigh’.

The group exhibition will use film, video, installation and sculpture as it sets out to affect the audience through sensation and emotion.

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