Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Mark Womack, Rene Zagger, Scot Williams, Samantha Womack.
Hope should never be denied to anyone, take it away and you deny that person the only thing they may have keeping them sane. Hope also can be secretive and a hard but forgiving mistress and to base a production around this idea takes the slight touch of genius and adds it to a script by Scot Williams which is utterly absorbing, playful but also captures the very essence of writing
Actress and singer Samantha Womack is to join her actor husband Mark Womack for the world premiere of Hope, which opens at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre in March.
It will be the first time ever the couple have acted together on stage, although they have previously appeared together on television, in the hit I.T.V. police drama, Liverpool 1. It will also be the first time that Ms. Womack has appeared on stage in Liverpool since her spellbinding performance in South Pacific.
Samantha Womack joins the previously announced cast members of Hope, which as well as husband Mark, also stars television and film actor René Zagger and the play’s writer and director, Scot Williams.
Hope is a brand new stage play written by and starring some of Liverpool’s finest film and television acting talent and it will receive its world premiere at the city’s Royal Court Theatre in March 2013.
An all-star cast has been revealed for this darkly comic psychological thriller, which sees Mark Womack, who recently starred in the B.B.C.1 drama Good Cop, making a rare return to the stage. Mark’s long list of credits include Ken Loach’s Route Irish as well as Murphy’s Law and Martina Cole’s The Runaway. Starring alongside Womack is his Hillsborough, Liverpool One and Merseybeat co-star, and the play’s writer, director and producer, Scot Williams, who makes a long awaited return to the Liverpool theatre scene after an 18-year hiatus.