Being invited behind the curtain by the directors to watch a full dress rehearsal must be a dream come true for anybody who has an enjoyment of the theatre. To watch from a corner of the room as the actors take in the words they have learned, to witness how comfortable they become as they are taken through their paces and their places, to see the wonder of theatre unfold before your eyes from almost the very start of the process is exhilarating and without doubt an honour.
Category Archives: Interviews
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice.
Donna Lesley Price and Richie Grice are out of breath after travelling for an interminable age from across the Wirral, through the congested and rammed tunnel system that goes underneath the Mersey and finally racing across town to get to The Unity. The last thing I want to do is make them talk about their play, If the Shoe Fits, as they have already been working hard doing interviews all day.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Sally Fildes-Moss And Paula Stewart.
The Crucible is arguably one of the crowning glories of 20th Century theatre, a play so powerful that the parallels it drew on one of the sickening acts in American history, the show trials conducted by Senator McCarthy in an attempt to goad the decent people of the country in to believing that everyone, neighbour, friend, lover was part of a Communist conspiracy, was too big to ignore. Bringing together the fear and jealousy of one era, a harsh time dominated by religion and comparing the post Second World War American dogma was a piece of genius that only Arthur Miller could have done and written so incredibly well.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Oliver Lansley.
The theatre company Les Enfants Terribles are dedicated to creating original, innovative and exciting theatre that challenges, inspires and entertains. The man who founded his creative team is the actor and playwright Oliver Lansley. Well known to television viewers as the man who took on the extraordinary task of portraying the iconic radio and television star Kenny Everett in the 2012 biopic The Best Possible Taste, there is so much more to this versatile actor than portraying in wonderful style a man wrecked by personal demons.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Simon James Of Grin Theatre.
In 2012 Grin Theatre Productions produced their ultimate piece of work so far, three short plays centred on women and the very different lives they can take. The three pieces starred Donna Lesley Price, Jennifer Bea and Kayla Keatley as the main focus of the stories and all three actors, writers and Grin Theatre themselves received, quite rightly, much acclaim for what they produced.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Grethe Borsum.
In the week that The FACT Centre on Wood Street unveiled its latest exhibition, The Art of Pop video, I was able to meet up with Norwegian musician and photographer Grethe Borsum and spend time with her talking about her new musical venture and her inspired video for the song Apple Picking. The talented and charming woman from Baerum near Oslo came to Liverpool in 2003 and attended L.I.P.A and received a B.A. in Music and Performing Arts.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Phil Cooper.
Sometimes talking to someone who has been on the other side of the music business for many years can be a little daunting. Someone whose pedigree of listening to music professionally for the best part of two decades stands before him and the knowledge that not only is he an entertainer but he is a man who adores music completely, in every shape and form.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Russell Parry And Mal French From The Play Wild Flowers.
Wild Flowers, Franny Conlin’s powerful play about a family torn apart due to their son crossing the picket line during the Dockers Strike of 1995, returns after a year away and will be spending two nights at the Epstein Theatre on the 29th and 30th March. This critically acclaimed play looks at the members of the Lavelle family whose son James turns away from the family and takes the path to personal destruction. It is a brutally honest play and one that deserves to be seen by a wide audience.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Stephen Langstaff.
Due to the nature of music, it can be a while between catching up with people who have made an impression on the overall music conscious of a city. In Stephen Langstaff’s case it’s not hard to see why. Over the last few years he has worked steadily and diligently in building up his songbook and it looks as though the hard work has finally paid off as Stephen is now able to concentrate fully on his passion. It is this work ethic that makes being able to pin Stephen down for a talk about music a pleasure.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Paul Hunter.
Acclaimed classical actor Edward Petherbridge was cast as King Lear, when on the second day of rehearsals he suffered a stroke that left him barely able to move. As he struggled to recover Edward made a discovery: the entire role of Lear still existed word for word in his mind.
From being on the brink of playing one of Shakespeare’s most revered roles, to lying in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors, Edward had never imagined what tragedies and comedies lay in store for him.