Tag Archives: Stuart Crowther

Bardolph’s Box, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Anna Buckland, Stuart Crowther, Harvey Robinson.

To bring a new generation of theatre lovers into the realms of existence, the effort must be made to demonstrate to them just what a wonderful world it is; if Government in all its selfish motives keeps sending down messages that science and the pursuit of feeding the gluttonous economy must be paramount, then every form of the arts must counteract this by showing the young that the soul is just as important to nurture as the wallet.

Bardolph’s Box, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(394 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

The Titanic Orchestra, Theatre Review. Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Ivan Barnev, Stuart Crowther, John Hannah, Heidi Niemi, Jonathan Rhodes.

The strains of The Last Waltz, perhaps the loneliness of Nearer To My God Than Thee or the finality of Autumn should with illusion be observed and be heard as the lives of four alcoholic tramps living the same existence day in, day out on the railways is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of another, a man who can see their lives and the fantasy of humanity’s deception that lives in them all

The Titanic Orchestra, Theatre Review. Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. full post

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

The Fuck, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Liam Murphy, Gerard McLaughlin

The pick-up, the slow manoeuvring of time and physical introduction as two sets of eyes meet is a story the world over, sometimes though the need for something beyond the carefree social abandon takes the requirements of dating out of the hands of the participants and into the realm of the arena. Not so much making love on the first date but the greeting of a Spanish crowd to their hero decked in national regalia and the snorting, steam driven worship of a single moment in which The Fuck is all but consuming.

The Fuck, Theatre Review. Queertet, Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Tick, Tick…Boom!, Theatre Review, Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Stuart Crowther, Franki Burke, Adam Handford.

New York in the early 1990s felt at times as if the whole cultural edifice was on its way to being torn down, that imagination, artistic individualism and intellectual prosperity was being neglected, shamed, destroyed by the ever rampant chase of undying consumerism. That the beautiful, even if crime infested streets surrounding certain areas that were awash with artists of every creed were being driven out and in their place those that chased every dollar, every dime and cent with religious capitalist zeal were taking over. Reaganomics had won and the starving artist had better join the party.

Tick, Tick…Boom!, Theatre Review, Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Spunk, Theatre Review. L.I.P.A. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Grant Robert Keelan, Stuart Crowther, Morten Aamodt.

In an opening that could have had Monty Python’s Eric Idle applaud for the utter creativity employed in the many different words used to describe sex between two men, L.I.P.A.’s Stuart Crowther’s play Spunk was something of a revelation.

Spunk, Theatre Review. L.I.P.A. Liverpool. full post

(408 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Gearstick, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10

Cast: Harriet Wilson, Sophie Smith.

There are just times when you have to congratulate a writer for taking such a logical step that you cannot help but wonder why nobody really has gone there before.

Stuart Crowther’s Gearstick looks at life in which women have been banned, to show femininity a crime, to be born female either sees you destroyed or having a state enforced gender reassignment. Gearstick takes the idea that that too be born a woman is not just seen as second class but an evil in which to be eradicated  and in which if you are a woman who has somehow got passed all the checks can see you hiding your true nature, especially hard when you are a Lesbian.

Gearstick, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

A Party Of Three, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Devlin, Stuart Crowther, Andie Egan.

Relationships are complicated, they can blow your mind or they suck the life out of you but what happens when one of the pair has a tendency to kiss someone else just to punish the other, the party is some relationships seems to survive, in others you wonder what they are actually both after.

A Party Of Three, Theatre Review. Queertet 2014. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(334 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Liverpool-Based Theatre Company Previews Two New Plays Ahead Of Edinburgh Festival.

What do a gay man in a wheelchair, a young musician with delusions of grandeur and a male prostitute with a B.A. in Sociology have in common? They’re all going to Edinburgh this summer with two new plays written by young Liverpool-based playwrights. However before the Edinburgh Fringe has the chance to savour the two plays, the Unity Theatre in Liverpool will be previewing them on July 26th.

Liverpool-Based Theatre Company Previews Two New Plays Ahead Of Edinburgh Festival. full post

(600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

I Love You Because, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Cast: Lucy Mulvihill, Katie Louise Jones, Zoe Evans, Phil Teles Amaro, Stuart Crowther, Peter Fendall

The faint sounds of New York Jazz filter through the Unity Theatre and from there the audience is taken on a rollercoaster of emotions in which the modern day musical, I Love You Because, is the perfect way to spend time with those you love, even if they don’t know it’s you they are looking for.

I Love You Because, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)