Tag Archives: Eddie Fortune

Grin Theatre Company Brings Back Its Stage Horror Just In Time For Halloween.

The devil is out to play this Halloween as Liverpool based Grin Theatre brings back its critically acclaimed “video nasty for the stage” Tongues, written by Wes Williams and directed by Tony Blaney.

Tongues is the story of three people, Mark Cottingham, a young man held in a psychiatric unit played by Eddie Fortune, disturbed priest Father Liam played by Dale Grant and Dr. Eva Richmond, a counsellor supporting Mark and played by Helen Kerr. All three are battling individual and very different demons which manifest in the guise of Max played by Adam Vinten.

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(210 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: An Interview Special With Kiefer Williams Of Grin Theatre.

As artistic Director at Grin Theatre, Kiefer Williams has an enormous responsibility in pushing the work of young writers onto the stage. Alongside Simon James, Kiefer is responsible for bringing the fantastic Queertet to the stage, a set of four plays that deal with LGBT issues in today’s modern world. The two men are certainly proud of their work and the experiences they bring to the city of Liverpool and the work they do is certainly valued as the city gears up in preparation for the Liverpool Pride 2013.

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(1045 words, estimated 4:11 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)

Tongues, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Kerr, Paul Culshaw, Eddie Fortune, Dale Grant.

There are two sets of horror, the one that sets out to shock from the start, blood and guts everywhere, sometimes instruments of terror are involved and in the end it becomes a gore fest, certainly a jolt to the system but doesn’t leave much to the imagination. There is nowhere for the audience member to go to. The other type is explored by Grin Productions and Wes Williams’ dramatic, sometimes bestial, totally compulsive and mind wrenching production of Tongues.

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(372 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

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.

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(1630 words, estimated 6:31 mins reading time)

Grin Theatre Presents Their New Play, Tongues, To Liverpool Audiences.

Grin Theatre Productions present their violent, imaginative and sickening voyage in to a warped mind, Tongues.

Written by Wes Williams (Sweats, Mexico, Push) and directed by Tony Blaney (Cinderella, Rat Pack Party, Blues Brothers Live) the play is homage to the horror genre and writer Wes Williams makes no apology for this; “It’s not just a question of scaring people or even grossing the audience out, it’s about the power of language, the power of corruption and ultimately the power of evil. Look beyond the shadows and the darkness of the play and each of the four characters develop as whole and rounded if dangerously flawed persona throughout.”

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(177 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)

Elastic Bridge, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Picture courtesy from tabardweb.co.uk

Originally published by L.S.Media. June 16th 2011.

Cast: Eddie Fortune, Rosie MacPherson, John James Tomlinson.

One of the final plays of the current season on offer by the Unity Theatre is the hard hitting and emotional drama, Elastic Bridge. Unusually for a play, as the audience took their seats to enjoy the show, one of the actors was already on stage pacing the small set in a scene of absolute desperation etched all over his face. This unique beginning drew the audience in straight from the start and provided a new take on how to stage a performance.

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(295 words, 1 image, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)