Tag Archives: Gerard McDermott

We Apologise For Any Inconvenience. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Deborah Findlay, Adam Gillen, Ruth Everett, Asif Khan, Gerard McDermott, Rosie Mellett, Hasan Dixon.

When we think of strange happenings at train stations our minds could be drawn to the terrific tale by Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man,  and the second adventure in the spooky Sapphire and Steel series, for our lives in the last two hundred years have been altered by the arrival of the ability to travel across country in a matter of hours rather than the days and weeks it would have taken to journey for example from London to Inverness even at the end of the 18th Century; but also time has a way of causing ripples, and where better than a place where mechanism and modern ingenuity meets the stagnation of patiently waiting for life to continue.

We Apologise For Any Inconvenience. Audio Drama Review. full post

(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Milady. Audio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Anjana Vasan, Luke Nunn, Sam Troughton, Carl Prekopp, Elizabeth Counsell, Rhiannon Neads, Don Gilet, Shaun Mason, Gerard McDermott, Joe Kloska, Gavi Singh Chera, Ian Dunnett Jnr, Ryan Whittle.

When we think of literature’s greatest female characters, we could possibly be forgiven for ignoring, or passing by, the marvellous Milady de Winter.

Milady. Audio Drama Review. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Nightmarish. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Emma Sidi, Barney Fishwick, Kymberley Cochrane, Leah Marks, Gerard McDermott.

When does imagination cross the line, when does a podcast in the modern age transform itself into being a ritual to which people flock to and see it as more than just an exercise in indulgence or a way for a lesser-known story to be revealed.

Podcasting has become a form of entertainment that has opened up the narrative revolution in such a way that it could be argued that it rivals the emergence of the novel in the transformation of how a story can be told by all and listened by everyone.

Nightmarish. Radio Drama Review. full post

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

Blood Wedding, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: EJ Raymond, Ricci McLeod, Irene Macdougall, Alison Halstead, Millie Turner, Miles Mitchell, Gerard McDermott, Ann Louis Ross. Amy Conachan.

There’s nothing like a wedding to enhance a good blood feud, to really get to the bottom of the relationship between one family and another, united in only one thing, absolute hatred of each other.

Lorca’s Blood Wedding explores the relationship of such feud but with that subtle twist that makes it stand out, makes it drive home the serrated cake knife home even further, as the least likely person on the day is the one calling the shots.

Blood Wedding, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)