She is desperate to return to school after her parents decide she is to remain at home to look after the other children whilst they look for work. Jenny Murphy plays Helen, the young girl who is the storyteller of her family’s downfall. The set design and lighting complement the outstanding performances by a great cast and the depleting costumes as the family falls further and further into poverty. Only it’s a bit of a struggle to find a home for a family of nine with little money and no guarantee of an income. When Helen’s father (Mark Moraghan) is declared bankrupt, the family are forced to leave behind their beautiful middle-class home in the Southwest of England along with its nannies and servants, and with nothing but the clothes they are dressed in, they travel to Liverpool hoping to rebuild their lives. Set in 1930’s Liverpool in the midst of the Great Depression, Twopence to Cross the Mersey is adapted for the stage by Rob Fennah from the million-selling book by Helen Forrester.
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