Full cast announced for Helen Forrester's BY THE WATERS OF LIVERPOOL Autumn 2023 tour

Full casting has been announced for Helen Forrester’s play By The Waters Of Liverpool, which will tour venues across the UK this Autumn, opening in Liverpool on 4 September and concluding in New Brighton.

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 three remaining roles have now been cast including Tom Roberts (Coronation Street, ITV) as John Forrester (Helen’s father), Joe Gill (Emmerdale, ITV) as Harry O’Dwyer (Helen’s love interest), and newcomer Emma Mulligan in 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.

The production will also visit venues in Crewe, Coventry, Sale, Rhyl, Darlington, Lichfield, St Helens, Southport, Halifax, and Lytham.

Written by Rob Fennah, the show is produced by Fennah and Lynn McDermott for Pulse Theatre Productions and Bill Elms, with direction by Gareth Tudor Price.

Writer and producer Rob Fennah added: “Announcing the full cast is taking another major step forward in bringing By The Waters Of Liverpool to life on stage once again. Our outstanding cast will tell Helen Forrester’s remarkable life story in ways to make people stop and think, laugh and cry, but most of all to appreciate her incredible writing.

“It has been a long time coming since we were forced to close in March 2020 after just two weeks into the tour – but in less than three months we’ll be back out there, on the road, taking Helen’s story to audiences across the UK.”

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