Brick up the Mersey Tunnels

Synopsis

Dickie Lewis, Nick Walton, and Gerard 'Gelegnite' Gardner are three men who have had enough. Fed up with being looked down on and mocked by the self proclaimed upper class from the Wirral peninsula, they decide to take the law into their own hands. The Kingsway Three will not be tolled!

Our Review:

15 July 2009

With over 100,000 people having seen it thus far, Dave Kirby and Nicky Allt's Scouse comedy Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels is back now for the fourth time in as many years.

Set in Liverpool and the Wirral, Brick Up tells the story of three working class Liverpudlian lads who are fed up with being looked down upon by the snobs from the Wirral. Eventually, they take the law into their own hands and the Kingsway Three are born.

There are many name checks to famous Scousers in the show, and after a while it does start to get a bit dull. Saying that, there is one Anne Robinson joke which is definitely on the money.

A lot of the humour in the play can be very crude - the play is no better or worse as a result, but it does get the audience going. But at times it does overstep the mark and becomes offensive, enforcing as opposed to challenging prejudices. Many people in the audience I am sure would understand that the jokes are tongue in cheek, but for others, on...

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