Tag Archives: Brian Dodd

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jake Abraham, Eithne Browne, Roy Carruthers, Daniel Davies, Emma Dears, Brian Dodd, Christopher Jordan, Maria Lovelady.

There is a horrible sense of deja vu as one looks around closely in hidden doors and hears the sounds of families at war with themselves that the period known as the Great Depression, the 1930s stumbling block to world peace has been making itself at home for the last few years and nobody has truly noticed. Thankfully the true depths that the world groped around in the dark with during that time has not materialised again but only perhaps good fortune, rather than political reckoning has saved the type of scenes witnessed by the writer Helen Forrester as she grew up impoverished in a city that was fighting for grim survival and without even Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(517 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Full Casting Announced For 2015 Production Of Twopence To Cross The Mersey.

The full cast has been announced for the new stage play of Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey, which tours four Merseyside theatres in the Spring.

The play will visit Liverpool, Southport, St.Helens and New Brighton between 10th March and 23rd April.

The eight-strong cast – a number of whom will play dual roles in the production – features a number of well known and popular Liverpool actors.

The tour opens with a three-week run at the Epstein Theatre Liverpool (10th to 28th March), followed by visits to Southport Theatre (9th to 11th April) and St Helens Theatre Royal (14th to 16th April), and ends with a trip across the River Mersey to the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton (19th to 23rd April).

Full Casting Announced For 2015 Production Of Twopence To Cross The Mersey. full post

(790 words, estimated 3:10 mins reading time)

Cinderella, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Sonia, Philip Olivier, Nikki Graham, Alison Crawfrod, Simon Greening, Stuart Campbell, Brian Dodd, Michael Chapman.

The Epstein Theatre has been up and running for just under a quarter of a season and already it has one of the top rated plays the city has had the pleasure to witness this year performed on its stage and now the acid test of the festive Pantomime, in the form of the much loved Cinderella, has made sure that the new theatre goes into 2013 with its head firmly held high and in fine exceptional spirits.

Cinderella, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(385 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Treasured, Theatrical Review. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Nicola Bentley, Nick Birkinshaw, Laura Campbell, Brian Dodd, Christopher Hollinshead, Brendan Ball, Louise Bennett, Bill McGarry, Barry Powell, Jean Silcock, Okechukwu Ugonna, Stephen Wooder, Barbara Whitehead.

One hundred years on from its fateful maiden voyage, the Titanic, the greatest ship that the world had ever known, still has the power to enthral, educate and leave people stunned and shattered by what they learn.

Treasured, Theatrical Review. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)