Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Helen Carter, Paul Duckworth, Lynn Francis, Julie Glover, Michael Starke.
We deal with grief in our own way, but we must allow humour to part of the therapy in taking us from a place of heartbreak to one where we can look back at the times before the moment and take solace in the joy what came before, the small things that make a smile and a laugh the most beautiful response in the world.
What happens when a man with an enormous thirst for power, but a tragically brittle ego is made King of the World?
In a kingdom ruthlessly ruled over by a permanently tanned King with strange orange hair, one of his lowliest subjects decides he has had enough of the King’s increasingly mad decrees. Can he survive defying the King, especially when he can’t even depend on the loyalty of his oldest friend?
King Of The World is a dark comedy and a modern day comment on despotic power and how loyalty, trust and friendship are tested under such a regime.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Sarah Maher, Emily Heyworth, Alun Parry.
If Paradise was half as nice…we would probably sleep in our beds not with worry but with comfort, not with concern but with joy and certainly not with the idea that at any given time in a world of seven billion souls were we being watched, every move undertaken scrutinised and studied, dissected just in case of any misappropriation of feelings or of possible conflict with the state. If paradise was half as nice then writer Brian Coyle would have no need to write a play that gripped the soul and gave it steely resolve to not allow the world to come down to this Pinter-esque dystopia.