Tag Archives: Playhouse Theatre

Cinderella. Mop! In the Name of Love,Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. December 9th 2011.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Rebecca Bainbridge, Jonny Bower, Carla Freeman, Robert Gilbert, Adam Keast, Chris Lindon, Kate Marlais, Griffen Stevens, Francis Tucker, Sarah Vezmar.

Dust off the tuxedo, air the sparkly gown and make sure that over the festive period you get down to the Playhouse Theatre and take in the spirit of the Everyman Theatre’s traditional and outrageously funny Rock and Roll Panto, Cinderella, Mop! In the Name of Love.

Cinderella. Mop! In the Name of Love,Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(562 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 22nd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Leanne Best, Amanda Drew, Annabelle Apsion, Russell Bentley, Stephen Fletcher, Matthew Flynn, Alan Stocks, Mandi Symonds. Sam Troughton.

Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is one that can cast dread into any Director charged with keeping the flame alive of one of the most accomplished American playwrights of his generation. In Gemma Bodinetz there is such a Director who not only has the honesty to go through every single pause, every full stop and understand how complex Williams and his writing actually was, but to install this attentive belief into the acting fraternity who are in the play.

A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(438 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Oedipussy, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

O Picture by Johan Perrson

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 15th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast:  Aitor Basauri, Stephen Kreiss, Petra Massey, Toby Park.

You can sit there all night thinking of the best way to describe Spymonkey’s Oedipussy, scratch your head and explain what you’ve seen in words that are both fitting to the company and the creators behind one of the great adaptations of Greek theatre. What it all boils down too, is that the team behind Spymonkey are pure and utter comic geniuses!

Oedipussy, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(582 words, 1 image, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Swallows and Amazons, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 27th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Celia Adams, Akiya Henry, Richard Holt, Katie Moore, Sophie Waller, Stewart Wright, Greg Barnett, Francesca Bradley, Neal Craig, Adrian Garratt, Alison George, Hilary Tones, Jon Trenchard.

Every so often a production comes along that when all is said and done is nothing short of charming and brilliantly executed. Nothing more, nothing less! Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s adventure Swallows and Amazons is one such play.

Swallows and Amazons, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(459 words, 1 image, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Henry V. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 17th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Brid Brennan, Graham Butler, Nigel Cooke, Giles Cooper, Sam Cox, Kurt Egiawan, Matthew Flynn, David Hargreaves, Beruce Khan, James Lailey, Brendan O’Hea, Jamie Parker, Paul Rider, Olivia Ross, Chris Starkie, Lisa Stevenson, Roger Watkins, Adrian Woodward, Helen Roberts, George Bartle, Hilary Belsey, Arngeir Hauksson.

Henry V. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(436 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Photographer: Robert Day

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Kristen Atherton, William Chubb, Ben Lamb, Flora Nicholson, Sadie Shimmin, Shannon Tarbet.

To take the life of one of Britain’s foremost radical and supreme female writers of the last 200 years and present it as a dramatic and inspiring piece of theatre takes incredible fortitude, guile, a cast of infinite quality and a writer whose work is undoubtedly amongst the best in the country right now.

In Helen Edmundson’s Mary Shelley at the Liverpool Playhouse, the audience was treated rather spectacularly to all of the above and then some.

Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(418 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)