Category Archives: Theatre

The City And The Value Of Things, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruby Bains, Natalie Barton, Leonardo Bertamini, Ellen Boyland, Erin Clarke, Kathleen Collins, Alice Corrigan, Callum Crighton, Stuie Dagnall, Sophie Edmunds, Joseph Edwards, Spike Fairclough, Will Flush, Neve Frost, Leah Gould, Tilly Harrison, Jasmine Hayes, Jake Holmes, Emily Horrex, Poppy Hughes, Chloe Hughes, Hannah Jennings, Kieran Kidd, Emily Lloyd, Luke Logan, Georgie Lomax-Ford, Frank McGuire, Charlotte Manuel, Aimee Marnell, Niamh McCarthy, Lizzy Meadows, Kaylee-Anne Meredith, Jack Malloy, Ciara Moriarty, Azarias Morris, Chloe Nall-Smith, Rachel Newnham, Courtney Parry, Luke Patterson, Jamie Pye, Keeley Ray, Marry Roberts, Nathan Russell, Samuel Serrano Roberts, Kalia Sharples, Sakura Singh Corke, Mica Skeete, Katie Smith, John Stephenson, Ellie Turner, Laura Tyrer, Natalie Vaughan, Campbell Wallace, Owen Walsh, Tommy Williams, Matthew Woodhouse.

The City And The Value Of Things, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(618 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

The Wedding, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Performers: Lucia Chocarro, Fionn Cox-Davies, Chris Evans, Madeleine Fairminer, Anna Finkel, Amit Lahav, Katie Lusby, Ryen Perkins-Gangnes, Uros Petronijevic, Dan Watson, Kenny Wing Tao Ho.

We are all slaves to one kind of dance or another, even the most freest of souls have to answer to some faceless leader who marks out the time between the tick and the tock with a sense of rhythm, from birth to the time of our death, we are married to life, to a job, to the system, and it is only over time that we lose the affection for the wedding dress and the all trimmings we associate with ignorance and purity and begin to see the faceless ones who call the tune as nothing more than puppets themselves.

The Wedding, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Jungle Book, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Rachel Dawson, Diogo Gomes, Lloyd Gormon, T. J. Holmes, Ruri James, Avita Jay, Keziah Joseph, Chipo Kureya, Dyfrig Morris, Deborah Oyelade, Tripti Tripuraneni.

The life of a writer and their creation is often seen as being so intertwined that when the reader takes a more interested look, a more critical eye over what they are being implored to read, often the join seems to flush, that whatever the writer of the novel has written must be what they believe in their own hearts.

The Jungle Book, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(499 words, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)

When Another Dragon Roars, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast Austin Hewitt, Lucy Fiori.

To hold the attention of anyone, let alone that of a young eager mind, the story has to be entertaining, it has to have the thrill of the imagination weaved through it, delicate threads pulling together to make one large pattern, a stitch here and there creating the picture in which the story unfolds, unfurls with a flourish and which when seen with the benefit of distance is still just as valued as the moments when you are so close to the action that you cannot but smile and be drawn in by those creating the drama and the story.

When Another Dragon Roars, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Dead And Breathing, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lizan Mitchell, Kim Tatum.

Aside from yourself and your loved ones  being healthy and happy, all that you can ever hope for in life is either being part of history, having your name linked to the times you live and have your name roll off the extensive tongue as if attached to a medieval proclamation, complete with booming voice reading out your virtues and perhaps a heroic deed or two; or seeing history made, knowing you were alive when the Earth shattering, the amazing or the downright incredible happened and perhaps seeing someone else have their moment in your company…being witness to the most awesome of performances.

Dead And Breathing, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Two, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jake Ryan, Rachael Reason,

It takes Two to run a successful public house, it takes two to be in a relationship that can be steady as a rock or toss and weave on the seas and bubbles of the foam filled, short measured bitterness that comes with watering down the spirit and overcharging the customer; it takes Two to pull the beers, listen to the stories and see the world beyond the optical illusion. It takes Two to remember the reason why working together in such an environment is ultimately a thrilling piece of comedy and the heartache that is the flip side of such genuine laughter.

Two, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Her Benny, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Brindle, Janet Cowley, Lindzi Germain, John McGrellis, Elizabeth Baxendale, Daniel Cox, Georgia Chadwick, David Thomas, Owen Doolan, Molly Large, Danielle Gorle, Owen Newsome, Abigail Bradbury, Jack Brown, Catherine Devine, Elliot Hanna, Laura Hesketh, Molly Hurst, Joey Jennings, Lisle des Landes, Victoria Platt, Tony Prince.

Her Benny, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(524 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

A Pacifist’s Guide To The War On Cancer, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

A Pacifist’s Guide To The War On Cancer. Photograph by Mark Douet.

Cast: Eva Alexander, Bryony Kimmings, Gemma Storr, Lottie Vallis, Lara Veitch, Elexi Walker.

There is always going to be an emotional stance when it comes to Cancer, we are all either directly or indirectly affected by this disease, almost impossible to not know someone who has been changed by the feeling of having something alien inside them, influenced in their thinking or who has in modern world sense, fought it. It is that very sense of the phrase fought that is the emotive part for some, and for Bryony Kimmings it is a word that doesn’t sit right, it implies perhaps fighting, war, taking up arms in a body of troubles and ultimately in a war, nobody wins, there are only casualties.

A Pacifist’s Guide To The War On Cancer, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(471 words, 1 image, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Play That Goes Wrong, Theatre Review. Storyhouse Theatre, Chester.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Gabriel Paul, Catherine Dryden, Jake Curran, Steven Rostance, Kazeem Tosin Amore, Benjamin McMahon, Elena Valentine, Bobby Hirston, Liam Horrigan, David Kristopher-Brown, Loisa Sexton, Laura White.

The British obsession with murder is not about the act itself but the conviction on behalf of the reader or the artistic voyeur to see the restoration of justice, the balancing of the scales, done and unarguably dusted. The most despicable of crimes and acts against another person is everywhere, on television, in films, in literature, it seems the British cannot get enough and it is why murder is a popular genre to be part of; everybody wants to be the armchair detective.

The Play That Goes Wrong, Theatre Review. Storyhouse Theatre, Chester. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Alex Walton. Rob Newman, Margaret Campbell.

We all have something we use to get us through the day, that one powerful pull in which insists that we can be better than the sum of our parts or the total of fears, in which guides us towards the light with a smile or which holds on to our soul when we become too fascinated with the dark and its surroundings; the day we lose that final piece of the puzzle which has made us whole, is the day we have to admit we have lost.

Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)