A popular play based on an urban myth about two Mersey seamen who played a unique, albeit fleeting, part in one of best known films of the 20th century returns to Liverpool's Unity Theatre April 16-20.
Waiting for Brando attracted rave reviews and played to packed houses during the Writing on the Wall festival last year.
After its revival here it’s embarking on a national tour that includes Surrey, Berkshire, Cumbria and Kent.
The two-act play, by playwrights Mike Morris and Steve Higginson, is based around the seminal Marlon Brando film On The Waterfront.
In December 1953 when legendary director Elia Kazan was filming a scene for the Marlon Brando movie in Hoboken, New Jersey, there were two Liverpool merchant seamen in the bar who were allowed to stay. You can see the back of their heads through a mirror in one of the scenes from the film, or so the story goes…