Twopence To Cross The Mersey UK Tour

Following its hugely successful tour of Merseyside in 2015, Twopence To Cross The Mersey will embark on a tour that will cover seven venues across England's North West and North Wales.

Based on Helen Forrester's best-selling autobiography, Twopence To Cross The Mersey opens at the Royal Court, Liverpool for a three-week run on 20th September 2016.

There are just two changes to the line-up who generated rave reviews when the show enjoyed a successful six-week tour in Spring 2015. The cast now features actors Phil Hearne (Good Golly Miss Molly, Coronation Street) and Tom Cawte ( The Lone Pine Club, BBC TV's Witless) as part of the 8-strong ensemble cast.

The line-up sees the return of Emma Dears (Judy & Liza, Les Miserables) as Mother; Christopher Jordan (Moving On, Coronation Street) as Father; Maria Lovelady as Helen; and together with Tom Cawte as Alan, they make up the Forrester family.

Eithne Browne (Brookside, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnel); Jake Abraham (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Game of Thrones); Roy Carruthers (Night Collar, Tales from Haunted Liverpool); and Phil Hearne all take on lead roles, as well as supplementary characters throughout.

Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey tells the true story of a young girl and her formerly wealthy family as they are suddenly thrown into poverty during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leaving behind the nannies, servants and comfortable middle-class life in the South West of England, they uproot their shattered lives and choose Liverpool as the place to start again to rebuild their dreams and fortune. Unbeknown to them, however, a terrible shock awaits them.

TWOPENCE TO CROSS THE MERSEY TOUR DATES

Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool

20 September – 8 October 2016

BOOK TICKETS Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl

12 – 15 October 2016

BOOK TICKETS Charter Theatre, Preston

19 – 22 October 2016

BOOK TICKETS Theatre and Convention Centre, Southport

24 – 27 October 2016

BOOK TICKETS Pyramid & Parr Hall, Warrington

28 – 29 October 2016

BOOK TICKETS Plaza Theatre, Stockport

1 – 4 November 2016

BOOK TICKETS Theatre Royal, St Helens

7 – 12 November 2016

BOOK TICKETS