Tag Archives: Clare Bowles

Father O’ Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Clare Bowles, Helen Carter, Paul Duckworth, Alan Stocks, Keddy Sutton.

An outpouring of respect should be shown to an actor who puts their life in the hands of an audience to the extent that their own inner thoughts, their own passionate affair with the boards and with language become so consuming that they write a play off their own back and present it to a crowd, ever hungry, ever in need of a new production to hold close to their hearts, and feel the sweat and possible damnation coming off the rehearsal floor for.

Father O’ Flaherty Saves Our Souls, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Hey Girl, Show Us Your Tips. Theatre Review, St. Helens Theatre Royal.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Mickey Finn, Clare Bowles, Charlie Griffiths, Lynne Fitzgerald.

As with many old, but undeniably great, habits and ways, the great British local pub, the bastion of native ways and hopes and drama, has for many years been on the road to serious decline. Cheap alternatives driven by greed and solitude have become the normal pursuit in some respects that the social constraints in which bound a community, a section of the communal population together has been driven headlong into a nearby abyss of soulless apathy.

Hey Girl, Show Us Your Tips. Theatre Review, St. Helens Theatre Royal. full post

(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Legendary Liverpool Comedian, Mickey Finn, Calls Last Orders in Lynne Fitzgerald’s New Play.

Award winning actress and comedy writer Lynne Fitzgerald bring audiences her new hilarious play, Show Us Your Tips, to the St.Helens Theatre Royal this month.

Set over one night in a Scouse Ale House and stars Liverpool’s finest comedian Mickey Finn playing Scotch-soaked landlord said, “How can you go wrong with Mickey Finn in your cast, he is hilarious.”

Mickey’s moaning groaning wife and landlady will be played by Irish singer and actress Clare Bowles, who adds, “I am thrilled to be working in another of Lynne’s plays as it’s always a hoot, although I am just over 4ft tall and the set bar is also 4ft so I’m struggling to see over the top of it.” She laughs, “Lynne assures me once I have my beehive wig on, all will be fine.”

Legendary Liverpool Comedian, Mickey Finn, Calls Last Orders in Lynne Fitzgerald’s New Play. full post

(278 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)