Tag Archives: Kevin Fearon

The Scouse Red Riding Hood: Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Emma Grace Arends, Chantel Cole, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Lydia Rose Morales Scully, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton. Liam Tobin.

Band: Ben Gladwin, Jack Hymers, Greg Joy, Chris Nicholls, Mike Woodvine.

Excellence rarely comes as a surprise, the joy of the eternal is forever and unequivocally stands on its own legendary status, and for the creatives, the cast, and the audiences that will make their way to the Royal Court Theatre between now and the new year, The Scouse Red Riding Hood theatrical offering is as ever one of tremendous and fantastic irreverence to the staid and the cautious that grips the stony hearted and loosens the funny bone with the skill of a night with Liverpool’s own Ken Dodd and a large dose of double entendre at his disposal.

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(433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Special Measures This April At The Royal Court Theatre.

This April the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool will be producing a brand new comedy from the writer of Eric’s, Taboo and The Liverpool Nativity – Mark Davies Markham.

Special Measures is set in an ordinary Primary School in Netherton which has just suffered an Ofsted inspection. The inspectors deemed them a failing school and have put them into Special Measures.

A showboating Tory M.P. arrives for a photo opportunity at the school and starts picking holes in the staff. It all becomes too much and it’s time for the hardworking teachers to strike back!

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(358 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Cast Announced For The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Fazakerley At The Royal Court Theatre.

Following on from the success of the last few years (Merry Ding Dong, Scouse Pacific, Little Scouse On The Prairie, A Nightmare On Lime Street) Fred Lawless has set the action in space and the show is called The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Fazakerley and now the Royal Court Theatre has announced the cast for this fantastic festive offering for 2013.

The cast can now be confirmed as Michael Starke, Lindzi Germain, Lynn Francis, Angela Simms and Jack Rigby! Michael, Lindzi and Lynn were all in last year’s brilliant comedy A Nightmare on Lime Street but this is the first Christmas show for Jack (Our Day Out, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Angela (Ladies Day). The show will be directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Ken Alexander and the Musical Director will be Howard Gray.

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(309 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

Legendary Television Star, Kathy Burke, Brings Once A Catholic To The Royal Court Theatre.

Tickets have gone on sale for the first Royal Court Liverpool show of 2014. The Court will be co-producing Mary O’Malley’s dark comedy Once A Catholic with London’s Tricycle Theatre.

Directed by Kathy Burke (Nil By Mouth, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Harry Enfield) the show will be starting in London before Christmas then transferring to Royal Court Liverpool in January. Kathy Burke has built up a reputation as one of the U.K.’s leading theatre directors and was last in Liverpool directing The Quare Fellow at The Liverpool Playhouse in 2004.

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(353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

The Royal Court Theatre Bring The Spirit Of Laural And Hardy To Its Stage.

The Royal Court Liverpool is bringing the world’s greatest double act back to life in this world premiere production of one of the best comedies ever written!

Ken Alexander is directing a stage version of Laurel and Hardy’s Sons Of The Desert. The script for the play is taken directly from the transcript of the famous film and the ambitious project will be the first of its kind. The producers have secured the rights to transfer the show to the West End if it is a success and has the backing of the rights holders to both the Laurel and Hardy franchise and the film itself.

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(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Bouncers To Step In At The Royal Court This July.

Royal Court Liverpool are producing one of English Theatre’s best known plays this summer. John Godber’s Bouncers will be filling the slot vacated by One Night In Istanbul and will run from 19th July – 17th August.

The show will be set at Liverpool’s Grafton nightclub in 1985.

John Godber is one of the most performed playwrights in the English language with plays like Teechers, Up N Under and Screaming Blue Murder regularly performed up and down the country. Bouncers is the most popular of all his shows and since it was written in 1977 there has always been a production of it playing somewhere in the world. He has written more than 50 plays and has won numerous awards for his plays including a Lawrence Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles Critics Circle Awards.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)