scouserdave
10-02-2006, 01:55 PM
13th October
Missus and I have been invited to the opening of the play The Liverpool Boat (http://www.redleadarts.org.uk/Index.asp?ID=95)in Belfast, but we're going to France that night. Just spoken to Dave Custy from Red Lead Arts and he said he'll hold the tickets if anybody wants them. They're freebies, by the way!:) It sounds like a cracking play.
THE LIVERPOOL BOAT- A NEW PLAY BY MAURICE BESSMAN AND MARIE JONES
BOOK YOUR PASSAGE AND COME ON BOARD FOR A LIFE-CHANGING THEATRICAL TRIP ON
THE LIVERPOOL BOAT Featuring LOUIS EMERICK (Last of the Summer Wine/Holby City/Mersey Beat/Brookside) as Kurt Silver (ferry entertainer)
Have you ever thought of emigrating, but never had the courage to do so?
What if you had? Would your life now be better … or worse?
Find out in this new, fast moving and thought-provoking drama, based on the lives of some of those who did take that big step onto ‘the Liverpool boat’ for a new life somewhere else …
Belfast playwright, MARIE JONES (Stones in his Pockets), and Liverpool playwright, MAURICE BESSMAN(Hollyoaks), have teamed up with Red Lead Arts and director CAROL MOORE to write a musical play about the experiences of Irish emigrants circa 1969 taking the Liverpool Ferry to find a new life. They researched and created characters revealing why they left Ireland and what happened to them when they arrived in Liverpool. These stories from 1969 until the present day including a docker’s family from Sailortown, explore some of the reasons and experiences that still force people to leave Ireland today. This project is unique in several ways. This will be the first time that playwrights from our two cities will have collaborated together on a theatre project and the first time we have had an opportunity to celebrate our “connected” cultures through shared stories of emigration and immigration.
Missus and I have been invited to the opening of the play The Liverpool Boat (http://www.redleadarts.org.uk/Index.asp?ID=95)in Belfast, but we're going to France that night. Just spoken to Dave Custy from Red Lead Arts and he said he'll hold the tickets if anybody wants them. They're freebies, by the way!:) It sounds like a cracking play.
THE LIVERPOOL BOAT- A NEW PLAY BY MAURICE BESSMAN AND MARIE JONES
BOOK YOUR PASSAGE AND COME ON BOARD FOR A LIFE-CHANGING THEATRICAL TRIP ON
THE LIVERPOOL BOAT Featuring LOUIS EMERICK (Last of the Summer Wine/Holby City/Mersey Beat/Brookside) as Kurt Silver (ferry entertainer)
Have you ever thought of emigrating, but never had the courage to do so?
What if you had? Would your life now be better … or worse?
Find out in this new, fast moving and thought-provoking drama, based on the lives of some of those who did take that big step onto ‘the Liverpool boat’ for a new life somewhere else …
Belfast playwright, MARIE JONES (Stones in his Pockets), and Liverpool playwright, MAURICE BESSMAN(Hollyoaks), have teamed up with Red Lead Arts and director CAROL MOORE to write a musical play about the experiences of Irish emigrants circa 1969 taking the Liverpool Ferry to find a new life. They researched and created characters revealing why they left Ireland and what happened to them when they arrived in Liverpool. These stories from 1969 until the present day including a docker’s family from Sailortown, explore some of the reasons and experiences that still force people to leave Ireland today. This project is unique in several ways. This will be the first time that playwrights from our two cities will have collaborated together on a theatre project and the first time we have had an opportunity to celebrate our “connected” cultures through shared stories of emigration and immigration.