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Eddie and Jackie, Jackie and Eddie, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eddie John Fortune, Becky Brooks.

Does art imitate life or does life take a big huge dollop of inspiration from the art that goes on around it? In the case of two fellow struggling actors who live in Dingle, the hastily drawn chalk mark between these lines have become blurred and in the end the fractious nature of their relationship, the acerbic co-dependency that has been formed can only lead to one conclusion that both Eddie and Jackie need each other, despite the fact that they drive each other up the wall.

liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Eddie John Fortune. (2)

The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.