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Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Micky Finn, Crissy Rock, Suzanne Collins, Lesley Butler, Lenny Wood, Lynne Fitzgerald, Roy Brandon, Lindzi Germain, Ruth Laird.

There may be a very wide river that runs between Liverpool and Birkenhead, perhaps at times it may seem like a gulf or a yawning chasm but the actual differences between the two sides of the Mersey are in truth very small. Birkenhead and Liverpool are communities, communities built upon tradition, hard work and friendship and in Brain McCann’s outstanding musical play, Down Our Street, the history of Birkenhead is explored to its fullest, from the founding stones of John Laird and the thoughts of a model town and the shipyard that still bares the family name.

Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

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)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Charlie Griffiths

For anyone who has caught Charlie Griffiths either on stage in one of her many theatre productions or hearing her sing as part of the duo Killa Sista, it is easy to see why so many critics and, more importantly, audiences love her. She has numerous credits to her name, her first television appearance in Children’s Ward at the age of 13 led onto other television roles. Her love of theatre has seen her star in Road as Helen, the title role in Everyman, Emma in A Liverpool Tale and Gloria in Return To Forbidden Planet.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Charlie Griffiths full post

(1663 words, 1 image, estimated 6:39 mins reading time)

Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Picture from Liverpool Daily Post

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2011.

Cast: Micky Finn, Terry O’Shea, Mark Allen, Ruth Laird, Louise Thomas, Laura McEwan, Clair Griffiths, Dave Crosby, Ami-Lee Price, Charlie Griffiths.

For tears, laughter, a genuine dollop of nostalgia and long buried memories, audiences could not go far wrong to catch Brian McCann’s musical play Down Our Street.

Although only running for three days at the Unity Theatre, the play is sold out with no room to spare as audiences were treated to the birth of a town and an industry that supported the growth and presided over some of the bad times that sometimes inevitably follows it.

Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)