Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Robert Stuart-Hudson, Vikki Earle, Kathryn Chambers, Connor Simkins, Elliot Bailey, Tony O’ Keeffe, Mikyla Jane Durkan, Ted Wilkinson.
Government and constitutional farce are alive and well and thriving. It could be argued that it is down to the political landscape that never seems to want to give up its grip on absurdity and restriction that sees the genre constantly able to entertain and give people the chills in equal and demanding measure.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Laura Atherton, Morgan Bailey, Luke Bigg, Will Holstead, Morven Macbeth, Matt Prendergast, Adela Rajnovic.
To combine the precision of a cinematic lens and the immediacy and freedom that the theatre provides is to perhaps immerse an audience into a noirish cascade of emotional uncertainty, one that leaves them breathless, suitably claustrophobic in their minds and one that gives the senses free reign to relish, to take absolute pleasure in the psychological fear that out there in the world is a disease that has the potential to place humanity in danger.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby, Abigail Thaw, Caroline O’Neill, Naomi Battrick, Lucy Briers, Holli Dempsey, Ryan Gage, Richard Harrington, Stephanie Leonidas, Reece Ritchie, Carol Royle, Angus Wright, Sam Ferriday, Lucy Farrar, Oliver Boost, Beverley Klein, John Hales, Nicola Duffett, Flora London, Chris Foster, Susan Legg, Ben Alden.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Paul Duckworth, John Evans, Jane Hogarth, Alan Stocks, Liam Tobin.
No matter how much you are urged to climb every mountain, to put your best foot forward and seize the day, you soon realise that life is far from a walk in the park, and the older you get, the more of an uphill struggle it becomes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Liam Brennan, Christine Kavanagh, Jeffrey Harmer, Alasdair Buchan, Chloe Orrock, Ryan Saunders, Emma Cater, Michael Ross, Portia Booroff, Elissa Churchill, Jonathan Davenport, Nathanial Cagliarini, Ella-Grace Hanson, Daniel Dean.
Time never changes, it just alters the angle in which you stare at it, until finally you realise that what has already gone, has returned, and normally with even greater ferocity and fire than before.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Sammy Winward, Crissy Rock, Sarah White, Warren Donnelly, Lewis Devine, Andrew Geater, Samantha Palin.
Senior Dancers: Abi Gibbs, Ellie May Fook, Mia Gibbons, Olivia Smith, Marcus Grimaldi, Ryan James Abbott.
Cinderella, the heroine to whom we all perhaps first fall in love with on our first trip to the theatre has fallen foul of her Ugly Sisters’ wrath and bitterness, the guiltless and faultless young woman is given no chance to shine in her own right and as each child understands, the ugly of heart must never prosper, they must be taught a lesson to play fair.
Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Eithne Browne, Jessica Dives, Rachel Hinton, Molly Madigan, Paislie Reid, Angela Simms.
Faith, hope and charity, depending on your point of view, and what your station is in life, seems to be out of favour, nestled somewhere between ignorance and damnation, lies and misdeeds.
Yet for some these qualities exist under the strong umbrella held aloft like a sword up by compassion and sometimes we need to remind others that they too can benefit from this intervention of the soul, that not everything in life should or needs to be about money, that we should be thinking of the effect the world is having on our family, to listen without needing to reply but to understand; faith, hope, charity, compassion and love, these are the gifts we should be looking to bestow.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Caitlin Berry, Nicole Deon, Kevin Harvey, Tim Parker, Chloe Pole, Stuart Reid, Mark Rice-Oxley, Liam Tobin, Taylor Walker, Maddison Thew, Eva Connor, Saara Gurjee, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Isaac Lancel-Watkinson, Marlis Robson, Seth Woodason, Natalie Vaughan.
Musicians: George Francis, Ros Jones, Alex Smith, Nick Anderson, Niall Mulvoy, Simeon Scheuber-Rush, Emma Haunton.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Thanks to the internet, we all know a Karen, or at least a facsimile of her, the crude interpretation that could have gone by any name, but which represents the base line to which we expect certain individuals to have their say. The moment of excruciating agony when a waiter or anyone in the service industry comes up against their nemesis, the one who demands to see the manager over the most frivolous and bizarre claims, that is where the Karen comes in, all seeing, all justified, and either scary or frustrating.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Samantha Arends, Emma Bispham, Jamie Clarke, Michael Fletcher, Stephen Fletcher, Lindzi Germain, Hayley Sheen, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton.
Musicians: Howard Gray, Ben Gladwin, Mike Woodbine, Greg Joy.
Anarchy in the hands of the theatrical and the artistic arguably achieves more than a demonstration and the gnashing of teeth; the power of laughter bringing the pompous to their knees, the smallest prick of hilarity bursting the bubble of the forever vain and the insincere pretentious. Anarchy rules, and its rules are simple, make them laugh and you will have a show that is beautiful to the core and one with a polished sheen attached to it.