Tag Archives: Cammell Laird

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Brian McCann.

 

Birkenhead playwright Brian McCann is a busy man. So busy in fact that I appreciate that I am fortunate to have time with him at the Leaf tea shop on Bold Street in which to chat to him about his play, Down Our Street, which is coming to the Royal Court Theatre in April. The story of Birkenhead and the Cammell Laird ship building company is intertwined with each other, with many generations of families being employed by the firm.

The play was well received when performed at the Unity Theatre and was one of the delights of the season when performed.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Brian McCann. full post

(1658 words, estimated 6:38 mins reading time)

Brian McCann’s Down Our Street To Come Back To The Liverpool Stage.

 Down Our Street, the musical play by Wirral writer Brian McCann celebrating the life and times of Cammell Laird from the industrial revolution to the present day, makes its way back to Liverpool this coming April and now it finds a new home at the Royal Court Theatre.

For well over a century and a half, ‘The Yard’ was the employer of thousands upon thousands of people from the Wirral, across the water in Liverpool and beyond. The town of Birkenhead was built around the shipbuilding industry and most families, if not all had some connection to Cammell Laird.

Brian McCann’s Down Our Street To Come Back To The Liverpool Stage. full post

(369 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)