Drama and debate played out on streets in the name of ‘forgotten heroes’
AN UNEXPECTED piece of live street theatre commemorating an episode of Liverpool history that saw the public take on the nobility was staged in the city centre yesterday.
Bridging the Gap was a day of drama and debate examining the city’s “forgotten history and folk heroes”.
Presented by the ’Pool Project, the event was inspired by the 1669 destruction of Lord Molyneux’s bridge, at the crossroads of Church Street, Whitechapel and Lord Street.
This display of people power is thought to have been a key action in the establishment of Liverpool as a major city.
There were debates at the town hall, the lunchtime theatre piece which took shoppers by surprise took place at the site of the former bridge, and there was a final “trial” in the afternoon for the public to discuss who was right, in St George’s Hall.
