Helen’s feckless mother is played by Emma Vaudrey. The bankrupt and broken father copes with one indignity after another but manages to hold the family together. Her father is played by Mark Moraghan, well known to viewers of ‘Brookside’ and ‘Holby City’ as well as doing well in that reality TV show, ‘Just The Two Of Us’. Pauline Daniels plays her older self, commenting on the action, although they look nothing like two versions of the same person. Perhaps it’s significant that her father is that most lovable of actors, Michael Starke. She has a very winning personality and the audience immediately warm to her. The most demanding role goes to Jamie Clarke, who imbues the young and feisty Helen with both a sense of duty and an independence of spirit. The cast is very strong indeed – good actors who possess good singing voices. I saw it first in 2004 and this production, with its mostly Liverpool cast, is better and received a standing ovation. Now it is back for its fourth run at the Liverpool Empire.
The show has done very well in the city, but unlike ‘Blood Brothers’, it hasn’t repeated its success elsewhere. Helen Forrester’s memoir of growing up in Liverpool in the 1930s, ‘Twopence To Cross The Mersey’, was, and still is, a best-selling book and in the 1990s, it was turned into a play with music by the Fennah Brothers, Rob and Alan, better known as Alternative Radio. Twopence To Cross The Mersey Empire By site contributor Spencer LeighĪ local favourite, Helen Forrester's Twopence To Cross The Mersey returns to the Empire. Reviews You are in: Liverpool > Entertainment > Theatre and Dance > Reviews > Twopence To Cross The Mersey Empire This page has been archived and is no longer updated.
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