Tag Archives: Grin Theatre

Liverpool’s Grin Theatre Presents Queertet 2018 At The Casa This Month.

Queertet is a festival of new LGBTQ plays that runs alongside the cities fabulous Pride celebrations and which is now in its 7th year and which comes to the Casa on July 26th and 27th.

The show celebrates new writing, passionate new acting and of course being LGBTQ+. The plays this year include two brand new works and two remixed and brought up to date Queertet classics.

Second Best by Will Cooper is a bitter sweet piece about friendship and how a young couple who are desperately trying for a baby aske their gay best friend to give the ultimate gift.

Liverpool’s Grin Theatre Presents Queertet 2018 At The Casa This Month. full post

(238 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Queertet’s Kiefer Wesley Williams And Christopher Sutherland.

In a year when the most powerful nation on Earth finally saw sense and changed what it meant to be seen as an equal, Grin Theatre’s Queertet makes its fourth foray into the world of theatre with four new stories that tell of hope, love and even the element of danger at the Unity Theatre over three nights from Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th July.

Queertet has been described as the jewel in the crown of Grin Theatre’s output, a rare company that talks the talk when it comes to delivering stories of a L.G.B.T. nature and a company that really sings with pride of all it has achieved in the city.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Queertet’s Kiefer Wesley Williams And Christopher Sutherland. full post

(1784 words, estimated 7:08 mins reading time)

A Party Of Three, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Devlin, Stuart Crowther, Andie Egan.

Relationships are complicated, they can blow your mind or they suck the life out of you but what happens when one of the pair has a tendency to kiss someone else just to punish the other, the party is some relationships seems to survive, in others you wonder what they are actually both after.

A Party Of Three, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(334 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running.

Queertet, The award-nominated festival of LGBT theatre is back and for the third time and is bigger, bolder and even more brazen!

Grin Theatre Company presents Queertet 2014, featuring four LGBT themed plays from three Liverpool writers and one from a playwright from New York. All four plays have LGBT themes, from a wedding night love triangle in Las Vegas to a world where women are not allowed to exist which is difficult for a lesbian couple!?

The plays that form this years Queertet are as follows:

A Party of Three written

by John Maines I Directed by Natalie Kennedy.

Grin Theatre Bring Back Queertet For Third Year Running. full post

(300 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

Then And Now, Theatre Review. Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 71/2/10

Cast: Darren Pritchard, Helen Turner, Paul Taylor, Zoe Vaux.

Writer: Tom Critch.

Time has a habit of playing tricks on you. What can seem, through the eyes of a 17 year old a bedroom like palace with more space than you know how to fill, 26 years later you wonder when seeing that room again, just how you got every possession you owned in the cramped, confined plot you called a bedroom. What happens though when you allow your eyes access to time and consent it to see things that aren’t there, that somehow accepts time to play a trick on your perception of the scene playing out in front of you? For those who made their way to the Gregson Institute, Tom Critch’s play, Then and Now, did exactly that and for such a young writer, Tom Critch nailed it on the head with such accuracy it positively glowed in the sparks that followed.

Then And Now, Theatre Review. Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Blue Touch, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Daisy Leigh, Shaun Stanley, Claire Kelly, Andrew Walsh.

Writer: Karla Sweet.

Grin Theatre delights in the story in which causes a ripple a shock throughout the audience, whether the well-intended, the deeply fascinating or the type that leaves a seismic tremor waiting to erupt in your stomach, Grin Theatre have it delightfully covered.

Karla Sweet’s contribution to Grin Theatre’s Young Playwrights Showcase certainly fell in to the final category to the point that anybody within a mile radius of the Gregson institute might have felt the lurking beginnings of a judder as the audience realised just exactly what was happening to the family in the play but also the trembling violence and retribution in which to come.

The Blue Touch, Theatre Review. The Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

(365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Voices 2, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Performers: Paul Taylor, Elaine Stewart, Edwina Lee, Esther Dix, James Bray, Helen Kerr.

Writers: Mark Anthony Rossi, Anthony Ellison, Mary Vigar, Sally Fildes-Moss, Mark Konik, Richard Lyon Conlon.

In September of 2013 Grin Theatre paved the way for a new way of looking at writing and performing in Liverpool with six monologues crafted by writers who weren’t known to the public. These six monologues formed the basis of the first Voices performed at 81 Renshaw Street. If something works as they say, keep going, and Kiefer Williams and Helen Kerr of Grin Theatre have done just that by hosting a very cool night of six different monologues for Voices 2, each individual, each creatively interesting and all carried out by the various performers’ voices with great care and reverence.

Voices 2, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

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.

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

(210 words, estimated 50 secs reading time)

Voices, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

In today’s world, art can be seen as being under threat. There are many who knock the idea of the young band making their way slowly into the world of performance, insisting that they should be concentrating on being a valuable member of society by finding a “real” job. The same goes for aspiring playwrights, poets and performers, too easily knocked for having an idea or wanting to be creative.

Voices, Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool. full post

(385 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Eddie John Fortune. (2)

The heat in Liverpool, even at ten in the morning, has begun to drain people and what feels like the longest heat-wave since 1976 takes on the atmosphere in the city and it feels strangely quiet around the area of St. Luke’s as crowds flock to river to get some sea breeze and seek some sort of shelter against the summer sun. One man though who forever seems in good spirits and who can turn an overcast, thundery day into a ray of sunshine is Eddie John Fortune.

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(1422 words, estimated 5:41 mins reading time)