Tag Archives: Lizzie Nunnery

To Have To Shoot Irishmen, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Gerard Kearns, Elinor Lawless, Robbie O’ Neill, Russell Richardson.

In our act of observance, of recording the facts of a certain situation so that if justice needs to be served, it is done so without bias, without favouritism and with impartiality at the forefront of truth, we can find ourselves in the unwarranted position of being accused of being involved with the crime at hand, or finding our name being labelled as a traitor. To observe, to witness history in the eyes of the pacifist is to know that death by other’s actions is always a possibility, it might just depend which side decides to pull the trigger.

To Have To Shoot Irishmen, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(504 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Horny Handed Tons Of Soil, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It would have undoubtedly pleased, intrigued, even fascinated the late, great Adrian Henri to have witnessed Horny Handed Tons Of Soil, not least for the acknowledgment of one of the three revered poets of the city of Liverpool but because of its absolute beauty. To be seen as beyond a performance, more of a living, breathing entity in which poetry becomes fine art, morphs into a moment of true artistic temperament which has been nursed and raised by more than just a tender loving of words, which has music, mood and movement sewn into its very fabric.

Horny Handed Tons Of Soil, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Award-Winning Playwright, Poet and Musician Brings Horny Handed Tons Of Soil To The Unity Theatre This March.

‘The city is alive. Wandering the streets, The Child, The Poet and Death trace memories and map dreams onto a landscape shifting under the spell of time.’

Award-winning Liverpool poet and playwright Lizzie Nunnery will embark on a tour of her successful 2017 play this spring, inspired by iconoclastic Mersey Sound poet Adrian Henri.

Described as a ‘modern day Under Milk Wood’, Horny Handed Tons of Soil explores how the landscape of Liverpool 8 – the same area that recently featured on the B.B.C.’s hit television show A House Through Time – has changed over the past 50 years.

Award-Winning Playwright, Poet and Musician Brings Horny Handed Tons Of Soil To The Unity Theatre This March. full post

(450 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Liverpool Playwright To Perform World Premiere Of New Commission Inspired By The Mersey Sound Poet Adrian Henri.

‘The city is alive. Wandering the streets, The Child, The Poet and Death trace memories and map dreams onto a landscape shifting under the spell of time.

Lizzie Nunnery, a Liverpool-based singer and award-winning playwright will perform her new collaborative piece Horny Handed Tons of Soil alongside musicians Martin Heslop, Martin Smith and Vidar Norheim on Thursday 13^th – Saturday 15^th July 2017.

The work was originally commissioned by national poetry organisation Phrased & Confused to create a brand new work inspired by Liverpool, and in particular influential artist and poet Adrian Henri.

Liverpool Playwright To Perform World Premiere Of New Commission Inspired By The Mersey Sound Poet Adrian Henri. full post

(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Liverpool Playwright And Musician Commissioned To Create New Work Inspired By The Mersey Sound Poet Adrian Henri.

Lizzie Nunnery, a Liverpool-based singer and award-winning playwright has been commissioned by national poetry organisation Phrased & Confused to create a brand new work inspired by Liverpool, and in particular influential artist and poet Adrian Henri.

Adrian Henri came to prominence as a writer alongside Roger McGough and Brian Patten in the groundbreaking and irreverently contemporary Penguin anthology The Mersey Sound (1967), one of the best-selling poetry books of all time (over a quarter of a million copies to date). A celebrated performer, he was also a painter, playwright, novelist and librettist.

Liverpool Playwright And Musician Commissioned To Create New Work Inspired By The Mersey Sound Poet Adrian Henri. full post

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

Narvick, Theatre Review. Studio, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Joe Shipman, Nina Yndis, Lucas Smith.

Musicians: Lizzie Nunnery, Martin Heslop, Vidar Norheim.

In many ways the war in Norway has been pretty much forgotten by many in the U.K. and beyond. The thought these days seems to centre on the fields of France, the systematic destruction of Eastern Europe and the polarised viewpoints of the war in the Far East. Yet Norway and especially for her citizens, the uneasy liaisons that lay between opposing Nazi rule and the fraternisation that reigned in the hearts of her young women starved of male attention and the deaths of so many her young men has somehow been cleansed, sanitised and thrown into the same realms of forgetfulness as those faced by the Channel Islands.

Narvick, Theatre Review. Studio, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(440 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

The Celebrated Everyword Returns With A Series Of Great Writing.

The Everyman & Playhouse’s annual celebration of writing, Everyword, returns this year from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th October at the Everyman, the Playhouse Studio and rambling across the city with a series of new plays, workshops and literary happenings with contributions from some of the city’s brightest talents including Lizzie Nunnery, Jeff Young and Luke Barnes.

The Celebrated Everyword Returns With A Series Of Great Writing. full post

(650 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

Lizzie Nunnery, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool.

Lizzie Nunnery, Leaf, Liverpool. 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Lizzie Nunnery commands respect. Four simple words that are as exact as day must surely follow night or as life will find a way, for anyone catching Lizzie Nunnery for the first time, the heavens may have aligned just at the right moment for them to see for themselves just exactly why Mellowtone rate her so highly and why Liverpool music goers absolutely insist that the woman breathes guitar chords, she plays with such analytical and pure mind that you cannot but be helped drawn into the notes and words.

Lizzie Nunnery, Gig Review. Leaf, Liverpool. full post

(397 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)