Following on from its highly acclaimed run at the Liverpool Empire Theatre last autumn, By The Waters Of Liverpool is set to embark on a major UK tour in Spring 2020 it has been revealed today.
The production follows the smash-hit success of Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey and is being brought to audiences by the team behind both the musical and stage play versions of the award-winning true story.
By The Waters Of Liverpool is a period drama set in the 1930s. The story opens in 1935. Helen Forrester is sixteen years old and fighting a bitter battle with her parents for the right to educate herself and go out to work.
During the Great Depression, Helen’s father lost his fortune when the stock market and the family were suddenly thrown into poverty. Leaving behind the nannies, servants and comfortable middle-class life in the South West of England, the Forrester’s chose Liverpool as the place to start over. They were in for a terrible shock. Taken out of school to care for her younger brothers and sisters while her parents struggled to re-build their shattered lives, Helen is treated as an unpaid slave and desperate to escape.
By 1939, now aged twenty and with Britain on the brink of war, she has never been kissed by a man. But things start looking up for Helen when she meets a tall strong seaman and falls in love.
And in celebration of what would have been Helen Forrester’s 100th Birthday, the 11-week tour will open at Wirral’s, New Brighton Floral Pavilion from March 3-8, 2020, just a few miles from where she was born.
The tour will then move on to the Stockport Plaza from March 10-12, Warrington Parr Hall on March 14-15, St Helens Theatre Royal from March 17-21, Lancaster Grand on March 23-24, Crewe Lyceum on March 25-26, and Southport Theatre on March 27-28.
It continues with dates at Rhyl Pavilion Theatre from March 31 to April 4, Swansea Grand Theatre on April 6-7, Darlington Hippodrome from April 9-11, and Malvern Theatres on April 14-15.
The 2nd leg of the tour and full casting will be announced in the coming weeks.
