Tag Archives: Simon Hedger

Clybourne Park, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * * *

Cast: Liam Tobin, Judith McSpadden, Paida Mutonono, Richard James Clarke, Chris Jack, Simon Hedger, Samantha Meisner.

Said&done have come back to the Unity Theatre with Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, a play set in America in the 1950s and then later on in 2009. The play was originally written by Norris as a response to Lorraine Hansberry’s, A Raisin in the Sun, and looks at race relations in America over the last fifty years. Set in a fictitious Chicago neighbourhood, Russ and Bev are all ready to pack up and move on having sold their house to a coloured family, but very quickly learn how things really are in a society still not ready to move on with the times.

Clybourne Park, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Gaffer, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Simon Hedger.

Life’s a pitch for a good manager, in the testosterone filled world of football, there is the hard work but also the banter, the great times of winning a trophy or two, of the desperate times in which a club can come so close to extinction that it threatens a whole community, it can destabilise it to the point where it may never recover. A club’s fortunes doesn’t just depend on what happens on the pitch, with the supporters or indeed with the person who bank rolls it all, it depends on the everyday making headway and for supposed social stigma’s to be recognised as just life. There is no wrong in being different; if you can do the job then you are good enough, no matter who you are.

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

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The Master and Margarita. Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joseph England, Simon Hedger, Jack Quarton, Olivia Meguer, Max Rubin, Modou Bah, Hannah Gover, Teresa O’Brien.

There are some works that are too good to keep hidden from those that would demean and diminish them. Some works may need to be spirited away in case certain people take offence and see the satire as a personal attack. However those in the very highest of offices do sometimes need reminding that they are they to serve the people, not the other way round. No matter how long it takes to get a novel published or someone to take it on as, what can only be described as riveting, in a theatre setting, at some point the message will get through, such is the fate of Mikhail Bulgakov’s work, The Master and Margarita.

The Master and Margarita. Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

When The Rain Stops Falling, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Simon Hedger, Ruth Alexander Rubin, John Edon, Maria Swisher, Jake Norton, Liam Tobin, Jennifer Burgess, Samantha Meisner.

When the downpour starts it is hard to ever believe that it will stop, the rain just becomes relentless, never-ending and destroys more and more lives. What happens though When The Rain Stops Falling?

When The Rain Stops Falling, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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