07Nov
John Bevan Team Player – From Lions to League
Sun 11th Oct
15:00
A new stage play by Meols writer Mari Lloyd about Welsh rugby star John Bevan starts its Northern Autumn Tour at Birkenhead Park.
John Bevan Team Player-from Lions to League, will be performed at the Pursglove suite at Birkenhead Park rugby club in October, marking the 55th anniversary of the only defeat of the All Blacks in a test series by a touring British Lions squad.
The play covers three pivotal years in the life of Welsh rugby legend John Bevan. Starting with the British Lions triumph over the All Blacks in the 1971 test series, it continues with the success of the Barbarians in 1973 and ends with Bevan’s first season playing rugby league for Warrington having switched codes. And in the 1970s that meant that there was no way back. For a Welsh international, “going North” could mean glory or the end of a dream.
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