Friday, December 5

Tag: Andrea Neary

Scratch Night – Arts Bar, Liverpool
North West

Scratch Night – Arts Bar, Liverpool

A new scratch night has opened its doors at the Arts Bar on Hope Street in Liverpool, offering a dynamic platform for writers to assess the reactions from a live (and lively) audience.  This evocative and interesting evening highlights a variety of themes and gives sharp focus to emerging and significant talent. More than anything else I do believe that scratch night events like this really does support new writing and provides a platform for further exploration and development. Well done to the Arts Bar and organiser/curator Francesca Hill for presenting the audience with a diverse and often challenging selection. I only hope that this will be a regular event. Tonight’s showcase featured six short extracts from plays that are either at a developmental stage or almost oven re...
The Chair – Theatre at the Casa
North West

The Chair – Theatre at the Casa

The Chair, presented by the Bridewell Production Company, is a new play written by Vinny Ferguson and Tony Kelly, based on the aftermath of the Cameo Murders which happened in Liverpool in 1949. Focusing on the experience of Tommy (Ted Grant), a petty criminal and prison barber, the play depicts DCI Balmer (Mike Lockley), a crooked and manipulative senior police officer, using his power to pressure Tommy into breaking the confidentiality that exists in the seat of the prison barber’s chair in order to ensure his preferred suspects, George Kelly and Charlie Connolly (Tony Jefferies) are found guilty of the murders. The play opens with Tommy arguing with his partner, Maggie (Andrea Neary) after being out all night “working”. Exhausted and cagey, it quickly becomes clear that Tommy is hidi...