New stage play set in Liverpool is coming to the Empire

A new stage play based on the best-selling book by acclaimed Twopence To Cross The Mersey author Helen Forrester is to receive its UK premiere in Liverpool.

By The Waters Of Liverpool is being staged at the Liverpool Empire from Tuesday, 2^nd October to Saturday, 13^th October 2018.

Tickets go on Sale today (Monday 30^th October) to the general public.

The play 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.

More than 170,000 people have seen Twopence since it was premiered and now the long-awaited sequel visits the theatre where it all began.

Rob Fennah wrote both the stage play versions of Twopence To Cross The Mersey and By The Waters Of Liverpool. This next chapter in Helen Forrester’s life story is once again produced by Pulse Records Ltd in association with Bill Elms.

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At seventeen, Helen had fought and won two bitter battles with her parents; the first to educate herself, the second for the right to go out to work.

Her parents are as financially irresponsible as ever, wasting money while their children still lack adequate food and clothing. But for Helen, things are looking up as she begins to make new friends and develop some social life outside the home.

Stageplay writer Rob Fennah with Author Helen-Forrester

In 1939, now aged 20 and with Britain on the brink of war, Helen has never been kissed by a man. That is until she meets a tall strong seaman, and falls in love.

By The Waters Of Liverpool has sold more than a million books. Now this is your chance to see it come to life on stage in this exciting new stage play adaptation.

Rob Fennah, co-producer and writer, said: “Over the years people have asked me when the next part of Helen’s story was going to hit the stage. Now I have an answer for them – next October at the Liverpool Empire!

“I adapted By The Waters Of Liverpool as a stage play for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was intended by Helen to be her final volume of autobiography. Secondly, By The Waters Of Liverpool was as big a seller as Twopence and all Helen’s readers out there have waited long enough to see it on the stage.

“The fact that her family has fully endorsed the writing of the new show is the icing on the cake. I have always said that, without their full support, I would not do it. Helen entrusted me with her most famous work and it is my responsibility to make sure all her readers recognise it as the story they know and love so well.

“Being back at the Empire Theatre, the place where it all started, is also something I am really looking forward to. Helen loved the Empire and she would have been thrilled to know we were going back there.”