Tag Archives: playhouse theatre studio.

Monkey Bars, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Bosworth, Angela Clerkin, Jaquetta May, Christine Roe, Gwyneth Strong, Gordon Warnecke.

Taken from conversations held with 72 children aged 6 – 11 and from a diverse range of social and cultural backgrounds, Monkey Bars is an intriguing look on life that offers new light through old windows as to how the modern world works.

Chris Goode’s script is beautifully written and the adult cast in a wide range of roles, must feel as though they are themselves kids left to run riot through Hamley’s and the biggest Haribo factory in the world.

Monkey Bars, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool. full post

(233 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

A Day Of Pleasure, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Stuart Richman.

A well written story needs a powerful performance in which to hang its tale upon and they don’t come much more emotionally and spiritually brilliant than Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Day of Pleasure and the man who enraptures and leads an audience through the near derelict streets and run down housing of pre and post First World war Warsaw, the outstanding Stuart Richman.

A Day Of Pleasure, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio. Liverpool. full post

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

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Mark Smith.

In 1993, theatre-maker Mark Smith came to Liverpool to study Drama at John Moores University. A native of the Bedfordshire town of Luton; notably famous for its hats, Eric Morecambe’s football team Luton Town, of which Mark fondly talks about his trip to Wembley as a ball boy when they won the League Cup in the 1988 and two of the members of Jethro Tull, it seems that Mark was destined to stand out from the crowd.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Mark Smith. full post

(2225 words, estimated 8:54 mins reading time)