Tag Archives: Emma Bispham

The Gathering. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Warren Brown, Eva Morgan, Sonny Walker, Sadie Soverall, Vinette Robinson, Richard Coyle, Jodie McNee, Luca Kamleh-Chapman, Ryan Quarmby, Oliver Nelson, Mia Johnson, Rob Jarvis, Poppy Miller, Charlie Griffiths, Christine Tremarco, Deborah Bouchard, Emma Keele, Mia Carragher, Emma Bispham, Michael Ledwich.

The pressure we are placing on our children as we live vicariously through their actions is almost as dangerous as the situations and times that we find ourselves in as we stumble through the last few years with unresolved anger and resentment banging on our doors as negativity, as jealousy and creativity clash in a way that we perhaps arguably as a species have never faced before.

The Gathering. Television Drama Review. full post

(411 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Macca & Beth, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Theatre Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Bispham, Gordon Kane, Andrea Miller, Jerome Ngonadi, Danny O’Brien, Jamie Smelt, Karen Young.

“No legacy is so rich as honesty”, as the bard of Stratford noted in All’s Well That End’s Well, or if trust in honour isn’t the bag you entertain when thinking of wills, then to think of theatre as a plaything to be held at arm’s length is a foolish notion that we must discard quickly and efficiently if we are to continue thinking that society is an inheritance that we must preserve at all costs.

Macca & Beth, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. Theatre Review. full post

(459 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Scouse Snow White, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

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.

The Scouse Snow White, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Big I Am, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nadia Anim, Emma Bispham, Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Paul Duckworth, Marc Elliot, Cerith Flinn, Emily Hughes, Nathan McMullen, Zelina Rebeiro, Golda Rosheuvel, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin.

There are moments in theatre that leave you breathless, where what unfolds on stage is enough to keep you mind whirring at such a pace that sleep, that welcome landing post in choppy waters between days, is impossible, that what has been seen in that form, will leave you reliving every sequence over and over again!

The Big I Am, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(535 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)

Othello, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emma Bispham, Patrick Brennan, Paul Duckworth, Marc Elliott, Cerith Flinn, Leah Gould, Emily Hughes, Golda Rosheuvel.

Photograph used with kind permission by the Everyman Theatre and Jonathan Keenan.

Change a moment, whisper down the ears of others around you words of sweet poison, let the drip of misinformation gather pace and be content in watching the world, which was at peace, rip itself apart and burn itself to a cinder. It is in such actions that happiness falls, that death is chased by murder and hatred festers.

Othello, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Paint Your Wagon, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nadia Anim, Emma Bispham, Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Paul Duckworth, Marc Elliott, Cerith Flinn, Emily Hughes, Nathan McMullen, Zelina Rebeiro, George Rosheuvel, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin.

Band: George Francis, Rosalind Jones, Katie Foster, Matthew Henry, Alex Smith, Nick Anderson.

Paint Your Wagon, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

The Driver, Television Review. B.B.C.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 5/10

Cast:  David Morrissey, Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Claudie Blakley, Darren Morfitt, Sacha Parkinson, Lee Ross, Harish Patel, Lewis Rainer, Andrew Tiernan, Chris Coghill, Shaun Dingwall, Andrew Knott, Nathan McMullen, Ciara Baxendale, Leanne Best, Dominic Coleman, Rick Bacon, Emma Bispham, Karl Collins, Alan Rothwell.

 

The British gangster drama, whether on television or in the cinema has never really captured the days of Brighton Rock with Richard Attenborough and William Hartnell or the fantastic The Long Good Friday with the much missed Bob Hoskins    and the excellent Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Since those days of cinematic greats the genre seems to have become too safe, it has waved a white flag in surrender to its American counterpart.

The Driver, Television Review. B.B.C. full post

(603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)