The creative team bringing Helen Forrester play By The Waters Of Liverpool to stages across the UK this Autumn have revealed its full cast – along with a change to the Liverpool venue opening the tour.
The highly anticipated By The Waters Of Liverpool Autumn 2023 UK Tour has been a long time coming since its inaugural 12-week 17-venue tour in Spring 2020 was abandoned after visiting only three theatres due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 2023 eight-week tour will now open at The Auditorium at M&S Bank Arena Liverpool on Monday 4 September, and visit a further 11 venues across the country.
The tour was scheduled to open with 15 performances at the historic Grade II Listed Epstein Theatre in Liverpool city centre. However, the venue’s management team last week announced it would close at the end of June due to cuts in council funding, making the venue untenable.
The three remaining roles have now been announced. Tom Roberts will play John Forrester, Helen’s father. Joe Gill will play Harry O’Dwyer (Helen’s love interest). Newcomer Emma Mulligan will take the lead role of Helen Forrester.
The trio complete the nine-strong cast playing over 50 characters, and also features Lynn Francis, Daniel Taylor, Lynne Fitzgerald, Joe Owens, Samantha Alton, and Roy Carruthers who were all announced in April.
The new stage production is based on the book of the same name by the acclaimed author Helen Forrester. Her enigmatic and touching portrayal of her life story continues to win her fans worldwide through four best-selling volumes of autobiography Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Liverpool Miss, By The Waters of Liverpool, and Lime Street At Two.
By The Waters Of Liverpool Autumn 2023 UK Tour finally ventures out across the UK after its premiere run was cut short in March 2020. After some years in the planning, the production was just two weeks into a 17-venue tour spanning three months when the country went into a national lockdown.
By The Waters Of Liverpool Autumn 2023 UK Tour starts in Liverpool and finishes in New Brighton – both locations hugely important in Helen’s life story.
LIVERPOOL – THE AUDITORIUM AT M&S BANK ARENA
Monday 4 September – Wednesday 6 September 2023
NEW BRIGHTON – FLORAL PAVILION
Tuesday 24 October – Sunday 29 October 2023
SOUTHPORT– THE ATKINSON
Thursday 12 October – Saturday 14 October 2023