Tag Archives: Lisa Symonds

Ball Of Fire, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Michael Hawkins, Ronny Goodlass, Michael Cullen, John Purcell, Sally Tryer, Adam Byrne, Katie King, James Ledsham, Danny Noble, Lisa Symonds.

At best Alan Ball was a world beater, a man to whom Pele described at the finest player in an England shirt, arguably the best player on the pitch on the day the country won the World Cup in July 1966, tenacious, a spirited player to whom Alf Ramsey made a hero of and to whom Don Revie discarded cruelly and without pomp and ceremony, at worst…well there was no worst, just dogged by ill fortune and personal disasters that would go hand in hand with the Lancashire’s lad’s demeanour and psyche for his entire life.

Ball Of Fire, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Half The Sky, Theatre Review. View Two Gallery, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lisa Symonds, Natalie Timmins, Emma J. Hind, Claryn Scott, Jennifer Bea.

Music: Reid Anderson.

Liverpool is a truly remarkable place. You can spend ten years immersed in the arts scene here, you can think that you have seen everything, in all of the many performance spaces that the city has to offer, from the great parks and the Williamson Tunnels, to the bastions of entertainment of The Empire, Playhouse and Echo Arena, taking in the myriad of large and small venues in between and then you can find yourself in a large room, in a gallery, high above Matthew Street and even there, in this fair city, if you look hard enough, you will find theatre.

Half The Sky, Theatre Review. View Two Gallery, Liverpool. full post

(1127 words, estimated 4:30 mins reading time)

Sad. Man. Smiling, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Paul Carmichael, Chris Chapman, Thomas Williams, Siobhan Crinson, Adam Sheldon, Arron Hussein, Thomas Atkinson, Dan Haydock, Hannah Gill, Hevv Jamieson, Talulah Pritchard, Sarah Allen, Naomi Lambert, Sarah Moore, Louise Froggatt, James Keysell, Jack Mitchell, Philip Milor, Olivia Murphy, Steven Quinn, Martin Williams, Dan Broom, Kate Bleasdale, Connor Lawler, Sian Woods, Denise Webb, Angela Wilkins, Brittany Macrae, Simone Murphy, Lisa Symonds, Jackie Jones, Sam Liu, Lee Burnitt, Daniel Mugan, Dorcas Sebuyange, Anthony Scott, Rebecca Eve, Philip Laing, Caitlin Clough, Freya Balchin, Alison Philips, Aaron Kehoe, Jack Spencer, Rhea Little, Tasha Ryan, Thomas Whittaker, Jean Paul Marie, Jamie Peacock, Fleet Sumner, Stewart McDonald.

Sad. Man. Smiling, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(708 words, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

Candleford, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Kim Veldman, Lisa Hitchins, Albert Hastings, Stacey Liddell, Carla Cookylnn, Rachel McKeown, Charlotte Holguin, Gillian Lewis, Gemma Doyle, Peter Higham, Sheddie Broddie, John Goodwin, Bertie Jones, Agustin Arraez, Lisa Symonds, Keri Seymour, Amy Stout, Michael Treanor, Ady Potter, Katie Thomas, Janet Fennell, Derek Weigh.

To perform a theatre production based on a hit television programme, a period piece in which the attention to detail of the age is usually the first thing that subconsciously many people sitting down to watch will question, is a brave choice. For a company that is made up of those who love acting for its ventured expression, for the satisfaction of being on stage and becoming someone else it is courage befitting the bold and the fearless.

Candleford, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(585 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Theatre Review. The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Lisa Symonds, Jason Carragher, Hannah Ruth Cooke, Jamie Stuart, Sam Liu, Douglas Austin, Jessica Olwyn, Justine Williams, Lauren Naylor, Laura Ryan.

 

The Lantern Theatre may have only just celebrated its first birthday but what an end to the 2012  season with their showcasing Purplecoat Productions of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, Theatre Review. The Lantern Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

The Crucible, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S.Media. July 6th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Graham Wright, Mary Savage, Beth Anderson, Jessica Olwyn, Anne Irvine, Christine Axworthy, James Lydon, Aimee Marrell, Rachel Rosie, Nakib Narat , Agata Jaroscz, Jason Carragher, Agustin Arraez, Lisa Symonds, Kieran McElduff, Karl Hesketh, Richard Harrickey, Alexander Laurel, Albert Hastings, Stacey Liddell, Robert Carter, Peter Higham.

When it comes to staging an Arthur Miller play, it can go horribly wrong or incredibly right. The pressure of living up to the standards of possibly the greatest American playwright of the 20th century is not just magnified; it is peered over, analysed and broken down right down to the very facets that make even The Crucible seem daunting to appear in.

The Crucible, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(434 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)