The Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street continues its run of local and innovative theatre with Is There Anybody There which runs from Friday February 25th to Friday 1st March. The play, which is written by Merseyside playwright John Evans, sees a son caught knitting a willy-warmer…extra large, a wardrobe with a tendency to go walkabout and a deranged grandmother, who is forever wailing, ‘I shouldn’t have done it…I shouldn’t have done it.’ Added to this mystery is the jewellery that went missing, along with the newly deceased and the whole thing starts looking as if the family require urgent answers.
Enter, Apollo Ray-Fay, a local psychic of some repute. Beginning to unburden their concerns, a procession of shady ancestors begins to emerge. Shocked to the core, but sensing (and hoping) that the worst had passed, the girls are then hit with a thunderbolt when they discover the identity of their great grand-pappy.
A great grand-pappy, who was unarguably one of the most evil warlords ever to tread mother soil. Who could this be? Why, of course, no other, than……
Tickets for Is There Anybody There are priced at £8 with concessions available at £6. Tickets are available from the Box office on 0151 703 0000.
Ian D. Hall