“The Palm House in Sefton Park is case in point. “Helen and I would often meet in places that were significant during her early life in Liverpool places that were close to her heart. “Over the years, Helen and I became firm friends and I feel very privileged to have been entrusted with her most famous work. “It was fantastic to have her there, in person, to help me flesh out some of the lesser characters in the books, but ones I felt would help bring the story to life on stage. “On many occasions, Helen would travel to the UK and we’d get together to talk about the stage adaptation. “Along with the many hours of telephone conversations I had with her from her home in Canada, I have a stack of letters and faxes, crammed with little gems that never found their way into her books.
“Helen was hands-on during the writing process so her army of loyal readers will get to see a true and honest representation of Twopence To Cross The Mersey. Rob Fennah said: “This show is loaded with provenance. With nothing more than the clothes they stood up in, the family of nine took the train to Liverpool where they hoped to rebuild their shattered lives. Helen’s spendthrift father was declared bankrupt forcing the family to leave behind nannies, servants and beautiful middle-class home in the gentler South West of England. It features a cast of nine playing more than 40 characters set in the early 1930s in the midst of the Great Depression. A new stage adaptation of Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey begins at Crewe Lyceum today (September 21) and runs for four days.īased on the late author’s million-selling autobiography, the play written by Rob Fennah chronicles Helen’s early life during The Great Depression in 1930s Liverpool.
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