Tag Archives: Dave Kirby

Council Depot Blues, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. (2018).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Jake Abraham, Roy Brandon, Paul Broughton, Lindzi Germain, Howard Gray, Phil Hearne, James Nelson-Joyce, Andrew Schofield.

We all count down the hours as a big day arrives, the end of the week and the chance to sit down with the feet up in the comfy chair or enjoy a holiday in which there is nothing to do but soak up the sun and breathe in the different air. Until the day of final reckoning when the chance to say goodbye to all those we have ever worked alongside, come rain or shine, come snow, hail, biting winds and the odd moments when the heat has driven us to distraction, leaves us with Time on our hands to think, and it is that thinking that makes the clock tick louder as it reminds us, we have nothing to do today and that we miss being part of the routine.

Council Depot Blues, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. (2018). full post

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

Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Theatre Review. The Auditorium, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Paul Duckworth, Keddy Sutton, Gillian Hardie, Lenny Wood.

A different setting, a changed venue, can make all the difference between wildly incredible and drop dead tremendous.

For the second year running the area around the Echo Arena played host to Dave Kirby’s sensational and uproarious Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas and yet just to take it out of the main arena in which the echo of Christmas Day’s Past Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and Peter Gabriel songs were still bouncing off the walls and in which Deacon Blue’s soulful pop was still to grace, the Auditorium became a more natural staging in which to completely immerse one’s self into the world of Thomas Minge and his collection of oddities and workers with the most wonderful but very peculiar habits.

Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Theatre Review. The Auditorium, Liverpool. full post

(578 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Acclaimed Liverpool Playwright, Dave Kirby, Brings New Play Exclusively To City School.

A new play written and directed by acclaimed Liverpool playwright Dave Kirby about a broken family’s plight through unemployment, poverty and gang culture will be premiered to students at a Liverpool school next month.

Heaven For A Day is a joint project between Dave Kirby (playwright, director, producer) and Voice In The City’s Liam Moore (songs and music, producer) – with the play’s overall theme being one of hope.

This emotive musical drama is the latest initiative in Voice In The City’s continued journey to unite communities by giving them a voice to help bring about hope and change through adversity.

Acclaimed Liverpool Playwright, Dave Kirby, Brings New Play Exclusively To City School. full post

(723 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lenny Wood.

Lenny Wood sits down and smiles broadly with the assurance of a comic actor who knows just the right thing to put you at ease.  This young man has done so much in his life already that it doesn’t seem a surprise when you go through the list of achievements and plays that he has acting credits in.  The putting at ease is paramount when it comes to someone who can make you laugh with just flick of eyebrow, the right word, even off the cuff, in the right place and the ability to make to make any comic creation they play seem endearing and as someone you would want to be friends with.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lenny Wood. full post

(1620 words, estimated 6:29 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Keddie Sutton And Gillian Hardie.

The Albert Dock is as important to Liverpool’s history as it is to its future. The images of vast sailing ships from across the globe relieving their important load into the waiting arms of many a stevedore is tinged with sepia romanticism that is hard to ignore or displace in time. Neither is the image of a bustling city, one that has retained its dignity when others set out to destroy it, either through lies, blatant and outrageous disgusting ones; or through a political dogma in which they sensed that the passion of its people could bring them and their misguided ideology  down.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Keddie Sutton And Gillian Hardie. full post

(1628 words, estimated 6:31 mins reading time)

A Second Barry White Christmas Forecast For Liverpool This Year.

The show that stormed EchoTwo @ Liverpool’s Echo Arena for five nights last Christmas is back by popular demand for a three week run at the Echo Arena’s sister venue The Auditorium. Dave Kirby’s grown-up festive treat and the only Christmas-themed show in town Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, will run from Monday 15th Dec – Sat 3rd January 2015 and tickets are on public sale on Fri 2nd May!

A Second Barry White Christmas Forecast For Liverpool This Year. full post

(659 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Theatre Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

Cast: Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Paul Duckworth, Gillian Hardie, Keddy Sutton, Lenny Wood.

Before a word is spoken inside the Echo Arena, before Andrew Schofield and Alan Stocks pass that wonderful look between them and the marvellous Keddy Sutton manages to bring her array of much loved admired voices to the table, just to know that these six amazingly funny and versatile actors are about to bring Dave Kirby’s work to life, there is already a broad smile on the audience who braved the December storms to watch Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas.

Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas, Theatre Review. Echo Arena, Liverpool. full post

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

Liverpool’s Echo Arena Is Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas In 2013.

This December, Echo Two at the Echo Arena Liverpool has a grown up festive treat in store for theatre lovers when the only Christmas-themed show in town, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, premieres at the venue from Tuesday 17th – Saturday 21st December 2013.

The first ever Christmas show from renowned Liverpool playwright Dave Kirby, whose hilarious hit shows include, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds and Blues and Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas promises to be the perfect way to spice up the festive period!

Liverpool’s Echo Arena Is Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas In 2013. full post

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