Tag Archives: Becky Brooks

Brian S Charity’s New Comedy Bobby & Twenk Comes To The Lanten Theatre.

From the strange and brilliant mind of Brian S Charity, a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers’ Programme, comes a delightfully daft romp through the world of television and beyond, performed by some of the region’s best new comedy talent.

Bobby & Twenk, they’re detectives. Think Cagney and Lacey on very strong drugs. A child has run away. ‘The Case of the Runaway Child’—that’s what everyone’s calling it. With their careers and even their friendship on the line, can Bobby and Twenk find him before it’s too late—or at least before the end of the series?

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(167 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Gearstick, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Harriet Wilson, Sophie Smith.

There are just times when you have to congratulate a writer for taking such a logical step that you cannot help but wonder why nobody really has gone there before.

Stuart Crowther’s Gearstick looks at life in which women have been banned, to show femininity a crime, to be born female either sees you destroyed or having a state enforced gender reassignment. Gearstick takes the idea that that too be born a woman is not just seen as second class but an evil in which to be eradicated  and in which if you are a woman who has somehow got passed all the checks can see you hiding your true nature, especially hard when you are a Lesbian.

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

Eddie and Jackie, Jackie and Eddie, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Eddie John Fortune, Becky Brooks.

Does art imitate life or does life take a big huge dollop of inspiration from the art that goes on around it? In the case of two fellow struggling actors who live in Dingle, the hastily drawn chalk mark between these lines have become blurred and in the end the fractious nature of their relationship, the acerbic co-dependency that has been formed can only lead to one conclusion that both Eddie and Jackie need each other, despite the fact that they drive each other up the wall.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Crumbs Theatre Bring Jackie And Eddie, Eddie And Jackie To The Unity.

Does life imitate art or is it just something that stalks Eddie and Jackie? Jackie and Eddie are two (failing) actors living in Dingle. Eddie is armed with a dusty typewriter, meditation and a teddy bear (Stanislavski The Bear), Jackie a new diet, (jogging and eating at same time) another bad date and choosing the wrong roles.

Presented by Crumbs Theatre, sees the two friends feeling frustrated by each other’s company, comparing their lives to stages of Madonna’s career. Eddie is feeling ‘frozen’ by his ex-boyfriend and in a rut with the Job Centre. And Jackie is just feeling that her last audition was as bad as ‘Swept Away’.

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(306 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Assemble, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jackie Jones, Nuala Maguire, Marie Westcott, Sarah Keating, Becky Brooks, Sophie Smith, Josie Sedgewick Davies, Maggie Quinlan.

Four plays written, edited, practised and performed inside 24 hour whilst all the while at the back of the minds of all involved with Lady Parts Theatre the small nagging doubt that this perhaps can be a jump too far for all participating in the project. Assemble was the rallying call and assemble with flying colours they did, all present and correct, suitably attired and as a bonus were just magnificent.

Assemble, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Lady Parts Theatre Set Themselves 24 Hour Challenge.

There is nothing like a challenge and when you give yourself a maximum of 24 hours to create 4 new short plays, involving 4 Playwrights, 5 Directors, 4 stage Crew and 7 actors, not only is the clock ticking, it is racing with anticipation.

On Sunday 23rd June Lady Parts Theatre will be showcasing four plays at 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool in which they will have had only 24 hours in which they will be given the theme and then by 10 am the actors will have to receive the scripts before staging the play that night.

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(178 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)