Crissy Rock Archives - North West End UK

Some productions arrive with a clear sense of identity, and Desperate Scousewives: Lily’s Story wastes no time establishing exactly what kind of night audiences are in for. From the moment the opening music fills the auditorium, the show embraces its Merseyside roots with confidence and affection. Loud, proud and packed with personality, it delivers an evening of laughter, warmth and recognisable Scouse spirit that immediately wins over its audience. At the centre of it all is Lily, played by the ever-charismatic Crissy Rock. A born performer with impeccable comic timing, Rock commands the stage from her first entrance. Lily is brash, outspoken and fiercely funny, but Rock ensures there is genuine heart beneath the sharp one-liners. Against a background of coercive behavior and physical...

Amidst a global pandemic we laugh about death in these four darkly comic monologues. On an unseasonably warm September evening Liverpool Theatre Festival hosted this performance written by Emma Culshaw and David Paul in St Luke’s Church, the socially distanced venue for the festival, which is an iconic roofless, bombed out church building which has become a centre for arts and performance. There was a cautious audience keen to welcome back live theatre, the stage was sparse with wooden boxes and very little in the way of costume, lighting or audio effects, so it was the ability of the actors that was to keep the audience enthralled. First up was Thomas Galashan as a guilt-ridden ex-soldier revisiting the site of a war time tragedy. Telling his tale whilst swigging from a hip flask an...

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Desperate Scousewives: Lily’s Story — St Helens Theatre Royal

Deathly Confessions – Liverpool Theatre Festival