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Dateline: 7th February, 2010 News from the North West
Blood Brothers for the big screen?Liverpool playwright Willy Russell last week told the Liverpool Daily Post that he has a completed screenplay adaptation of his smash hit stage musical Blood Brothers co-written with Alan Parker, who directed Hollywood films such as Midnight Express and The Life of David Gale but also wrote and directed the film musicals Bugsy Malone and Evita and directed The Commitments and Pink Floyd's The Wall. Russell and Parker are currently looking for a film company to take on the project, which Russell estimates is going to be a $50m to $60m film and would probably require finance from American studios who may not be keen on spending that sort of money on a regional British musical drama set in the 1980s. The set would be a horseshoe-shaped housing estate based on St Andrew's Gardens in central Liverpool, and Mrs Johnson would sing "Easy Terms" while pushing a pram in Otterspool by the side of the River Mersey.
Glengarry cast announcedThe cast for Chris Honer's production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, set in the cutthroat world of real estate salesmen in Chicago, will be headed by David Fleeshman as washed-out salesman Shelley Levine and James Quinn as fellow salesman George Aaronow. Also in the cast are Leigh Symonds as James Lingk, Nick Moss, as suspicious detective Baylen, John McAndrew as salesman Dave Moss, Paul Barnhill as office manager John Williamson and Richard Dormer as champion salesman Richard Roma. The play runs at the Library from 12 March to 3 April.
NW productionsFrom 11 to 13 February, Tmesis Theatre presents The Dreadful Hours at Liverpool Everyman, combining the trademark physicality of Tmesis Theatre’s Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle with new writing from playwright Chris Fittock in a darkly-comic drama that explores the quiet crumbling of love’s first flourish through the lifetime of one couple’s relationship. Theatre of Widdershins visits Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on 13 February with The King's Got Donkey's Ears for ages 4 years and over, in which King Orik goes into the woods for a walk and comes out cursed with the big furry ears of a donkey. Also at Waterside, Paper Zoo Theatre Company presents a multimedia adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 on 19 February featuring John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the big Hollywood version of the story, as the on-screen Big Brother. Tim Firth's own adaptation of his screenplay for the popular film Calendar Girls, directed by The Right Size's Hamish McColl, returns once again to The Lowry with a cast including Lynda Bellingham, Gemma Atkinson, Judith Barker, Debbie Chazen, Letita Dean, Jan Harvey and Hannah Waterman. Neil Simon's I Ought To Be In Pictures, about a young, New York actress who turns up on the doorstep of her LA screenwriter father who is suffering constant rejections from Hollywood studios, is directed by Paul Jepson for Library Theatre in Manchester and runs from 11 to 27 February. Multimedia dance piece Scattered from Motionhouse will be at The Lowry on 9 and 10 February. Also at The Lowry on 12 and 13 February, Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield tells how Mary tries to untie the binds between her, her mother and Dusty Springfield as she prepares to scatter her mother's ashes. Tim Whitnall's Morecambe starring Bob Golding as the well-loved British comedian visits The Dukes in Lancaster from 10 to 12 February. Also at The Dukes, The Dukes Youth Theatre will perform It Snows, in which all of the props have been knitted from wool by volunteers, from 10 to 12 February. Dancing In The Streets, a jukebox musical from Keith Strachan based on songs recorded by US record label Motown, will be at Liverpool Empire from 8 to 13 February. Fuse Theatre will perform Alice Bartlett's Not In My Name, which opens up issues of terrorism and extremism for young people, will be at the Unity in Liverpool from 9 to 13 February. Trestle Theatre Company will visit Theatre by the Lake in Keswick with Moon Fool, a reworking of A Midsummer Night's Dream for ages 13 years upwards, on 9 February. Also at Theatre by the Lake, The Hot Dots on 14 February tells the story of two successful vaudeville performers and their spectacular fall from grace. Crossroads star Jane Rossington will take the title role in The Snow Queen, based on the fairy tale by Hans Andersen, at Stockport Plaza on 11 February. In 2010 Space Oddity by Gavin Roberts at Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on 11 February, two men are trapped in a kitchen in a HAL of their own devising. Enid Blyton comes to the seaside when Noddy In Toyland visits Southport Theatre with Noddy and Tessie Bear’s sing-a-long, dance-a-long party on 12 and 13 February, but two naughty goblins are out to spoil the fun. Reporter: David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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