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Lennon’s Banjo, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eric Potts, Jake Abraham, Mark Moraghan, Lynn Francis, Daniel O’Brien, Stephanie Dooley, Alan Stocks, Roy Carruthers.

Special guest appearance by Pete Best.

Memorabilia is big business, some of it only worth the money to the person that truly wants to covet it, to see it take pride of place in a darkened room and never let anyone ever see it again. The private collector to whom a piano played by Billy Joel, Elton John or Tori Amos is as valuable, if not more so, than keeping the instrument used to create art out of sight of millions; a type of dystopian pleasure, a greed that undeniably stokes the furnaces of ownership but also in which hangs tales of intrigue, of lost items and found loves.

Ex-Beatle To Make Acting Debut At The Epstein Theatre.

 

Former Beatles drummer, Pete Best, is to play himself in a brand new comedy stage production called, Lennon’s Banjo. Written by Rob Fennah, the show is about a quest to find the holy grail of pop memorabilia – the first instrument John Lennon learned to play which has been missing for 60 years and now worth millions to whoever finds it.

Set in present day Liverpool, the stage play is based on the novel ‘Julia’s Banjo‘ by Rob Fennah and Helen A Jones.