Bev Callard to star in new Jim Cartwright play

Jim Cartwright, writer of such plays as The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and Road - and who appeared in Coronation Street as Cathy's brother, is forming his own theatre company, to be based at Salford University's new £55m arts centre.

The Jim Cartwright Theatre Company has pledged to showcase "the very best of current northern talent".

The company will launch with Burning Bright, a performance of Cartwright's monologues read by Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley Cropper) Sue Johnston (Gloria Price) and Beverley Callard (Liz McDonald).

It won't be the first time that Bev Callard has worked with Jim Cartwright on one of his plays. She played the wonderful Mari Hoff in Little Voice when it toured a few years ago. We went to see her in the play at the Futurist Theatre in Scarborough and you can read the review here.

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Award-winning playwright Jim Cartwright joins Coronation Street cast

Next week on Coronation Street, we'll meet Alex's dad for the first time - and he's going to be played by Jim Cartwright.

Yup, that Jim Cartwright.

The Jim Cartwright who wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Two and Road (and he also wrote one episode of Corrie in January 2011).

Jim Cartwright is a multi award winning, international playwright, screenwriter and director.  His plays have been in constant publication since 1986.  He has received an Honorary Doctrate from Bolton University, has been a visiting professor at The University of Salford and his old school Harper Green have named a building in his honour.

And now he's turning up in our favourite soap as Alex's dad, Nigel.  You'll see from the picture above that Cathy's not best pleased to see him!

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Katy Cavanagh stars on stage in new Jim Cartwright play

Katy Cavanagh is much missed by this fan as Julie Carp on Coronation Street.  The actress will be appearing at the Bolton Octagon theatre in the world premiere of a new Jim Cartwright play called Two 2. 

This is Lancashire reports that Katy is back in Bolton for the Jim Cartwright sequel, set in a northern boozer, which will make its debut at the Octagon Theatre in February, following on from a production of Two. (I've seen this play when it did the rounds many years ago at the Live Theatre in Newcastle and it's fantastic so Two 2 will be ace!)

Katy, who began treading the boards in the town as a youngster, is starring in both plays with Octagon regular Colin Connor as the landlord and landlady of the pub, bringing 14 characters to life between them.

Two debuted at the Octagon in 1989 and follows the lives of a landlord and lady, introducing the many characters who pass through their pub, from early doors to last orders, over the course of one whirlwind evening.

Two 2 seemingly begins at the end of the road for a once-bustling pub — but despite all attempts at quiz nights, karaoke, and pub grub, it could soon be last orders for the struggling landlord and lady themselves.

Two will run from January 21 to February 6, followed by the world premiere of its sequel, Two 2, from February 10 to 27.   Tickets and more information here.


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Review: Bev Callard in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

The last time we saw Bev Callard on Coronation Street as Liz McDonald she was leaving to go to Spain to help son Andy with his bar.  In real life, Bev's finally back on the stage, currently acting in a touring version of Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

We caught up with the show this weekend in Scarborough and I can't recommend it highly enough.  Bev Callard plays the role of Little Voice's mother, Mari Hoff.  And while the clothes Mari wears on stage are the short-short skirts and tight-tight tops in the style of Liz McDonald, this is a different character altogether to the one we've seen Bev play in Corrie.

Bev's character Mari Hoff carries the show from start to end.  She's on stage more than any other character and her role is one that gets the audience on her side straight away. She plays a comedy blinder with her on-stage friend Sadie - and in one moment that had tears of laughter rolling down my face, Bev does a hand stand while Sadie (played by Sally Plumb) opens and closes Bev's legs while they're both dancing to a Jacksons' hit.  Wonderful stuff.

As well as the comedy, Bev played the role with emotion and pathos, it really was fantastic.  The rest of the cast are pretty darn good too, not least Jess Robinson who plays and sings her way through the show as Little Voice.  It's a wonderful play, I highly recommend it and it more than deserved its standing ovation.

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Bev Callard to star in Little Voice in Scarborough

Bev Callard, who played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street, is set to play the mother in Little Voice at the Futurist Theatre in Scarborough. The play runs from Monday September 10 to Saturday September 15 and I'm waiting for the phone lines to open to book my tickets today.

Little Voice is one of my favourite plays, ever, written by Corrie scriptwriter Jim Cartwright. And Scarborough is one of my favourite places.

Let's just hope Bev does follow through and end up on the stage for this one as she's had some health problems that have meant she had to drop out of panto and out of the play Hormonal Housewives. In both Bev was replaced by ex-Corrie actress Margi Clarke, who played Jackie Dobbs. And that just wouldn't work for Little Voice. Bev is the perfect choice.

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, June 13 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update.  Eagle-eyed readers (hello mum) will know there was no update last week. The reason for that is that I’ve never enjoyed Corrie so little in my whole Corrie-fan-filled-life.  However, Corrie’s back on form this week and it even made me smile. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Sunita’s aunties are back on the Street, desperate to set up their niece with someone nice once they find out that Dev’s empire has been reduced to one corner shop and a kebabbery place. But doesn’t he still own the flat in Victoria Court?  Never mind, it’s not enough for the aunties who tell Sunita she’s got to find herself a new fella and they take it upon themselves to find someone for her.  Must haves include a decent head of hair and social standing, so that’s Steve McDonald out of the frame but it puts Nick Tilsley and Dr. Carter very firmly in. Even Marcus comes under scrutiny of the aunties until Sean comes to collect him from their clutch.

Sean receives bad news in a phone call that tells him that Violet’s been involved in a car crash. She’s going to be fine but her back’s in a bad way and fortunately Dylan wasn’t with her in the car but she needs someone to take care of the lad. Sean’s up to the task, with Marcus’ full support, and the two lads head to London to pick up Sean’s son. Lovely.

Fiz is in court on fraud charges for fiddling Joy Fishwick’s will when she knew fine well she wasn’t entitled.  John’s gone AWOL and Fiz is going mad with despair at the state that she’s in. Friends rally round to support her but the best line of all to her was: “You’ve been Staped!”  Sally Webster gets a gloat in and snipes to her about Stape.

The tedium that’s been Graeme and Xin’s sham wedding looks set to be finally gone from our screens.  Tina finds out what’s been going on between her boyfriend and best friend (you know, the best friend who came out of nowhere and took the soap by the hand down the path of dull despair).  Anyway, long story cut short, Graeme makes his decision to choose Xin over Tin and leaves the Street with Xin, leaving Tin in tears and threatening to call immigration to shop up Xin. Remember how Graeme came into Corrie a bit mad, a bit bad, a bit dangerous to know? And look what they’ve done to such a great character, leaving the Street in a bad hat without even a smile. Shame.

In the soup kitchen, Sophie and Sian get the blame from James after the day centre’s burgled. He reckons they didn’t lock up properly at the end of their shift and the two girls feel bad. Sophie and Sian rake money together to repay James some of the stolen cash and Kevin goes ballistic when he walks in on his daughter handing cash over to James. So has the centre been broken into? Is James really telling the truth?  Sally and Kev don’t want Sophie to have anything more to do with the charity but Sophie defies them both and accepts a full-time voluntary post after James butters her up an offer she can’t refuse, and one she won’t get paid for.

Over at the Rovers, Steve’s solicitor draws up a contract to give him access to Amy. All he needs to do now is soften up Tracy so she agrees to it all.  He starts by offering her the job back behind the bar. Tracy’s not daft, she knows there’s a reason that Steve’s being nice to her, but she accepts the work all the same.

And finally something which put a smile on my face this week was the return of Brian Packham. Brian, you’ll remember, is the Headmaster of the School where Colin/John used to teach.  He’s read about Colin/John taking the Hoyles’ hostage, it’s the headline in the Weatherfield Gazette. Armed with newspaper tucked firmly under his arm, he storms in to see Fiz for gossip and chat. It’s the last thing Fiz wants, to scrape all the dirt up on John with someone she hardly knows, but it’s a good quality farce that was very good to watch. And when Brian spies Julie, he’s hopeful that they can reignite the spark that once flared, ever  so briefly but brightly, between them, before Julie found out that Brian was wed.  His wife’s left him now, he tells Julie, but that doesn’t thaw the cool and calm Ms Carp, not until Fiz admits it was her and John’s fault that Julie and Brian split up.  Julie’s face lights up as her heart catches fire, once again, and the love-light burns bright for Brian. 

And that's just about that for this week. 

This week's writers were Martin Allen, Simon Crowther, Julie Jones, John Kerr and Jim Cartwright.
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Coronation Street Weekly Update, March 14th 2011

Hello again update readers. It’s been great fun filling in for Glenda for the past month or so and it’s time to pass the mantle on again. Glenda will be back in about 3 weeks and next week you’ve got Richard keeping you up to date with the goings on down Coronation Street. After last week’s aberration, things are looking up again this week and so without further ado, let’s find out what’s been going on in Weatherfield.

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It’s been a traumatic week for the Websters. Kevin tells Sally, who has a posh new hairdo paid for by Jalfie and looks fantastic, that Lloyd and Cheryl have increased their offer for number 4 and he’s accepted it, so Sally has to start hunting for somewhere else for her and Sophie to live. Sophie suggests to Sian that they look for somewhere together but she points out that with only Sophie’s wages from the shop to support them, they’ve little hope of finding anywhere. Sophie’s in a right strop with her which isn’t improved when she catches Sian chatting online to a girl she met on holiday. She denies there’s anything going on but the pair of them have a huge row which ends up with them going their separate ways and Sophie telling Sunita where she can put her job.

Getting little support from her parents, her best friend and partner seeming to have fallen out of love with her and not even loved by god any more, Sophie turns to the most reliable friend a teenager has, cheap cider. Sunita tries to help her but she’s having none of it, she tells Kevin what she’s seen but he’s too busy with Jack to care about his daughter. Worse the wear for drink, she goes to the church and watches the choir practising but they don’t care about her either so she climbs up onto the roof to talk to god. The creepy pastor manages to talk her down but as she stands up she slips and falls off the roof and lands on a car roof below. She’s rushed to hospital where she’s given a scan and x-rays and fortunately has got away with a broken rib, a fractured wrist and a few cuts and bruises. Sally and Kevin are distraught and after Sally finds out that Sunita had warned Kevin about the state Sophie was in they have a blazing row over Sophie’s hospital bed.

Sian has made up with Sophie and lets rip into Sally and Kevin telling them that the way they’ve behaved towards their daughter, she’s surprised Sophie didn’t jump. Maybe if they’d talked to her and listened to her a bit more, then she wouldn’t have gone off the rails. Sally and Kevin are chastened by Sian’s outburst and after they all return home they play happy families for a while. Kevin cooks them all beans on toast and Sally asks him to stay a while and share a bottle of wine. They reminisce about the kids and the happy times they spent together and then Sally offers him a nightcap. She cries, he comforts her, he tries to kiss her and so she throws him out.

Claudia has a date planned with Marc but he cancels at the last minute. Audrey convinces her she should have it out with him and so they play Cagney and Lacey and go and spy on his house. They see him put the rubbish out, which they deduce means that he is tidying up and if he’s tidying up then that must mean he’s expecting the company of a lady. After all why else would a man be tidying up? They continue the stake out and eventually see a woman emerge from the house, confirming their suspicions. When they confront Marc later in the pub, he seems on the verge of confessing something but tells them that the woman they saw was his sister. Aud and Claud are not convinced and so he slinks away with his tail between his legs.

Things are tense at the Rovers now that Kylie is back on the Street but she tells Becky that she doesn’t want Max back. Things get even worse when Liz returns from her extended trip to Spain and is unaware that Steve and Becky have had to hand over custody of Amy to Tracy or even that Tracy has been released from prison. Wait until she finds out that Tracy’s working behind the bar and why she’s got such a hold over Steve, then the sparks are really going to fly!

Fiz brings Hope back from the hospital and given her fragile condition, is very concerned about cleanliness in the house. So it’s no wonder she takes against the huge, slobbering Great Dane that swans around the place like he owns it. She wants Schmeichel out and so Chesney and Katy start plotting their escape. With Janice now living with Julie, there’s an empty flat that they might just be able to afford and Katy wants to make babies too. Chesney mulls this over for a while but they’re young and in love so can’t see the pitfalls of such a course and he agrees.

Graeme, Tina and Xin start to put the plan to keep Xin in the country into operation. The first thing that needs to be done is for Graeme and Tina to split up, which they do very publicly and loudly in the Rovers. Xin moves all her stuff into the flat and Tina goes to stay with Rita. Graeme and Xin invite Emily and Norris round for tea and decorate the flat as though it’s Christmas, pretending that it’s a late Chinese New year celebration. It’s yet more contrivance to allow them to get some historical photographs to help give some substance to their artifice.

Elsewhere, Norris has renamed the newsagent’s back to The Kabin, which pleases Rita whose flat is now ready for her to move back into. She’s wary of it as she’s lost everything, so it’s just four walls to her now. But in a very touching scene, Tina presents her with a box of things that she managed to recover from the wreckage, including some of her old photos and ornaments. David and Kylie have set a wedding date of 8th April. Faye comes to stay with the Windasses again but any progress they’ve made with her is lost after Eddie washes her dirty, old blankie which still retained the smell of her mother. The Renshaw twins made another appearance in the salon, lapping up all the juicy gossip of Claudia’s love life.

And that’s it for this week.

This week’s writers were: Jan McVerry, Ellen Taylor, Debbie Oates, Simon Crowther and Jim Cartwright.

Coronation Street Weekly Update, February 28th 2011

Hello again update readers. With a steaming cup of coffee and a slice of my neice’s bestest chocolate cake, let’s get right down to Weatherfield to see what’s been happening this week. Though to be honest it’s not been a great one.

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In the dead of night and making sure that he’s not seen, Steve posts an envelope full of used tenners through the Alahan’s letter box. Dev and Sunita soon work out that it must be from whoever looted the shop after the tram crash and it must have been someone they know. But having the money back isn’t enough for Dev, he wants justice so the pair of the um and ah and ah and um for what seems like an eternity over whether to call in the police. When Steve tells Becky what he’s done, she points out that his DNA will be all over it and if the police get involved he’ll be bang to rights in no time. Faced with the prospect of another spell in the big house Steve goes to see Dev and Sunita and owns up to the theft and then after telling Becky, she does the same and gets thrown out of the newly refurbished shop. There are then some very harsh words from Steve to Becky as he gives her one last, final, never again, no absolutely not, chance … again. All very tedious for this viewer. I like Steve and Becky as a couple, there’s great humour and affection there but we just seem to be going round in circles with them.

When he isn’t finishing the corner shop in double quick time, Owen’s plotting revenge on Eileen. Knowing that Eileen’s going to be out, he pinches Jason’s house keys while he’s in the toilet and breaks in to Eileen’s to look for the dodgy dossier. Back at the yard he puts his books in order and shreds all the incriminating evidence before calling in the police. Eileen is arrested for fraud and taken in for questioning where she immediately confesses all and is very contrite, all of which means she gets away with a caution. When she gets home, she finds that the dossier is missing and when she confronts Owen he admits he took it but there’s not really anything she can do about it except tell everybody, including Izzy, what a scumbag he is.

Over in the hairdressing salon, David is getting all high and mighty. He’s now calling himself ‘Creative Director’ and is nicking all Maria’s clients, so she quits. Meanwhile Carla is all disorganised in the Underworld office since Michelle left. Hmmm, I wonder where this could be leading. Carla says that all she needs is someone with common sense, so why she offers the job to Maria, who can’t walk and chew gum, when Julie and Sean are both angling for it is anybody’s guess? When it comes to dealing with fishy Frank, we find out that what Carla was after was not common sense after all, but a pretty face and a pair of breasts.

As well as bigging up his job at the salon, David is in love with a girl, Candy, who he met on holiday in Tenerife. So enamoured is he, that he proposes to her by text and she accepts. His mother and grandmother are absolutely horrified that he should propose to someone he hardly knows. If they think that’s bad, just wait until the meet her and find out who she really is.

In other news, Julie was worried that something might have happened at Tyrone’s when she woke up the morning after on his sofa, without her bra on, but it turns out it was just a bit of Dirty Dancing brought on by too much red wine and the pair of them eventually make their peace. And what’s happened to Graeme? Since he took up with Tina, his spark seems to have gone. It’s about time he had a look down the back of the sofa.

And that’s it for this week.

This week’s writers were: Damon Rochefort, Mark Wadlow, Peter Whalley and Jim Cartwright.

Coronation Street Weekly Update, January 24 2011

This week the update’s coming to you from an uncomfortable place. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
 

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There’s a new fella at Underworld and as luck would have it, along with Carla Connor and Underworld undies, Frank Foster brings more alliteration to the cobbles. He also brings a firm jaw and well-turned suit to the Street.  But he’s only on-screen a second and he’s bad news. And you know any fella’s a rum ‘un when they say ‘Hello’ to your chest instead of your eyes and as Michelle’s got a very large chest area, there’s a lot of ground to cover. He’s got a wandering eye and a philandering mind, this Frank chap, just wait and see.

Carla sends Michelle on a business meeting with Frank, a meeting that takes to the pub with a bottle of red and Michelle’s not happy because it’s Ciaran’s last night of shore-leave before he hits the cruise liner as a chef where he’s lined up a new job. Anyway, to cut a long and very dull story short, Michelle left this week and went cruising with Ciaran. I do hope he comes back.

Over at the Windasses, it’s been all go this week. Firstly, a scene that had me in tears when Gary meets Quinny’s mam and dad and tells them how he died.  It was so sad a storyline, the Samaritans helpline was on at the end of the show. But there’s also good Windass news as Anna and Eddie find out that they’re getting a foster child, Faye. Eddie bakes a cake and ices it with a big, fat, F A and a Y and then squeezes in a little ‘e’ on the end with his icing bag when Anna tells him he’s spelled the name wrong.

In the Rovers, it’s singles night and Janice scores high with her low neckline. Her saggy cleavage is eye-candy to Gaz at the bar who invites her to Tenereefee with him the very next day. Janice has a drink, goes home to pack her things, has another drink or ten and gets sent home from th’airport for being too drunk to fly. One can only hope Gaz will have a good time on his own. I know I’ll be worried about him, won’t you?  While Janice is en-route to the th’airport in the back of a Streetcars cab, her flat is burgulated (I’ve made that word up) by a dodgy geezer mate of Chris, who you’ll remember is the ex-husband of Cheryl who used to lapdance. Chris hides the bag of Janice’s stolen goodies in the boot of the Streetcars cab and all the blame points to Lloyd, just as Chris wanted in the hope that Cheryl will split up with Lloyd and come running back to Chris. And if you're wondering what that picture is...

At Eileen’s, she’s upset as her roof needs fixing and she’s got no cash, so she goes and does summat daft. She pockets a cheque for ten grand from Carla Connor to Owen, makes it payable to herself and puts it in her bank. Owen finds out, of course, it’s soap so he has to. And even though Eileen swears she hasn’t touched the money (she hasn’t) and she’ll pay him back (she will), Owen says he’ll wreak revenge (he will).  He menaces her by the sofa then kisses her on the cheek as he leaves with a troubled mind: “Nighty night, petal.” He’s horrible, is Owen, but he’s good fun to watch.

And finally this week, John Stape started burbling about murders and deaths and has a breakdown on the kitchen floor right in front of Fiz’s fridge.

This week’s writers were Chris Fewtrell, Jim Cartwright, Simon Crowther, Jayne Hollinson and Julie Jones.

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Coronation Street Weekly Update, January 17 2011

Greetings and welcome to another week’s worth of waffle from Weatherfield. Without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.  To find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrieweeklyupdates.btinternet.co.uk

Right then, let’s go.  This was the week that Claire and the boys Peacock left Weatherfield for France. But have they left forever? Claire did a runner to the country of frites et fromage to escape going to jail for beating up bitchy Barlow. With Becky in charge, an escape committee is formed and with her kids under her wing, high on a hill there’s a lonely barmaid as Claire and the boys have to hide from the Nazis in the back ginnel as the cops storm the Rovers and torches are shone looking for the family von Peacock who are sheltering out back by the bins.  It was all very Sound of Music in a cut-price way.  And so she’s gone, with false passports and her sons but I reckon she’ll be forced to return quicker than she can strum up a song on her guitar with lyrics to rhyme with ‘extradition treaty.’. So long, farewell, Ladyohdeladyohdelady-ooh.

In the flat across the road, Peter moves back in as he’s had enough of living with Deirdre and Ken.  Nick does his nastiest, and succeeds, in getting Peter drinking again.  He’s doing it in the guise of caring for Peter, but Nick is one wet-nurse that Peter could well do without.  As the pair go drinking in the Flying Horse, Ciaran catches them at it as he’s there for a chef job interview and he pushes protesting Peter out of the pub in his wheelchair.  He has a go at Peter when he gets him back home but you know his words about staying sober will fall on deaf ears. Ciaran then goes to see Nick to give him a piece of his mind and, I was hoping, a really hard clip round the chops but sadly that didn’t happen, not this week anyroad.

Meanwhile, John Stape claims victim number three. Word of warning, Corrie folks. If you see John Stape heading your way,  run, just run. It’s Colin Fishwick’s mum Joy who keels over dead this time after John shocks her with the news that her son’s really dead.  Nosy neighbour Clifford from next door wants to know what’s going on and in another mad farce, John gets off scot-free, pretends he was delivering a parcel and says he knows nowt about the late Mrs F.

In the Rovers, there’s dodgy business afoot when Maria dates Chris, a nasty piece of work. Maria’s antennae for a nasty piece of work is spot on again, she’s picked another right bad ‘un and it looks as if we’re in for weeks of Maria trying to emote.  And for this fan trying to care.  Anyway, Chris is the ex-husband of Cheryl who’s stepping out with Lloyd and Chris isn’t best pleased. So he calls in a dodgy geezer to do something nasty to Lloyd only we don’t yet know what it is.  Tune in next week for more.

And finally this week, Eileen’s got a slate loose. No, she really has. In fact she’s got more than one and one of them almost falls on Rosie Webster’s coiffed do as she leaves Eileen’s home. The roof’s in a right state and after a quote from Owen, there’s bad news as Eileen can’t afford to have it repaired.  She tells her merry band of lodgers – currently Sean, Jason and Rosie – that their rent’s going up and then takes her miserable face to the pub for a drink.  With Rosie living in the Grimshaw house now, the queue for the bathroom can get rather long as she’s in there doing her beauty routine: “It’s cleanse, tone, vomit,” says Sean.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Jim Cartwright, Peter Whalley, Mark Burt and John Kerr. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team.

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Corrie writer profile: Jim Cartwright

Confirmation's been received from ITV to me that the episode of Coronation Street we all saw on Thursday 13th January 2011 was written by Jim Cartwright, the playwright who also wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. 

That's a huge coup for Corrie and a great addition to the Corrie writing team. 

For more on Jim Cartwright, playwright, who wrote Little Voice, Two, Road and many other fabulous plays, have a  look here.

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