Tag Archives: Theatre Review. The Casa

The Bench: (Friendship Forever), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *

Cast: Barbara Cunningham, Neil Summerville.

How far will you go for friendship? If you are fortunate enough to have that one person in your life to whom you would go to the end of the Earth for just to make them smile, then yours is perhaps the most blessed of lives, a truth of existence is that we cannot go through our time here on Earth without searching for that one person to make us happy, neither are we immune to wanting to find another in which we might be able to bring happiness too. It is a Friendship Forever in which our lives are balanced upon.

The Bench: (Friendship Forever), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Bench: (Heaven Sent), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Clifford Hume, Emma Ley, Karl Best.

There is a theatre of mystery that dogs human existence, we seem to fail to understand the connection we have to each and every person on the planet, we are so concerned with our own sense of self that we neglect the silence of a child and put it down to wilful disobedience, we forget those who raise us until the moment they are gone from our lives and we are ignorant to those who don’t scream and shout when the world has taken a bad turn, we believe that just because they aren’t complaining that they can take the misery and misfortune levelled at their soul.

The Bench: (Heaven Sent), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

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

The Bench: (Love), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Claire Coull, Neil Summerville, Emma Ley.

Love is what remains when the world no longer makes sense, it is the spark in the fire of inspiration, it is the beauty in the chaos and anarchy that makes us give everything we can to those whose lives we cherish. Love is that moment when your breath is taken away by the person you see in pain, knowing you will do anything to stop it from continuing.

The Bench: (Love), Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

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

Mother Goose, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bob Towers, Edmund O’ Hare, Teneye Alvarado, Maggi Green, Charlotte Thomas, George Melling, P.J. Murray, Yahya Baggash, Peter Durr.

 

The song is right, it is the most magical time of the year, one in which we come together to hopefully remember what true message is, one not to be sucked into a world of commercialism, one not to be in the grip of debt, not one to be feel the need to be greedy or over burdened by the selfishness of others. Just one that allows the heart to find forgiveness to others and to yourself, one that in which children and adults alike can find the delight in time together and one which even in the depths of a snow filled scene can lead to a love that might not thought possible.

Mother Goose, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

The Zoo Story, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Stephen O’Toole, David Crosby.

It may because of its bright lights, the allusion to a sense of greatness that comes with size and popularity with visitors but to feel totally at ease with yourself in New York City can feel emotionally blissful; to sit and listen to the tales of group of a million random voices, all unique, all frightening, dazzlingly inspired voices complaining, laughing, being scared of the dark in a city to whom illumination is a watch word of enlightenment, it can only be satisfying if you are on the edge taking in the wonder of the finest circus, the greatest zoo ever conceived.

The Zoo Story, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival. full post

(473 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

A Woman Alone, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Mikyla Jane Durkan.

Imprisonment it seems is not only for the guilty, for those whose crimes against society are numerous and devastating, but in the eyes of some men there are those who should be imprisoned against their will for their own safety.

Society demands imprisonment for those who steal, murder, maim, spread hate and yet society never seems to lift a finger of warning to those who seek to deny women the opportunity to leave the house, to expect them to stay in, who lock the doors and keep them kept but also keep them from those they love and the pastimes they enjoy; it is not so much imprisonment as it is the start of the unravelling of the mind and the cruelty that comes with it.

A Woman Alone, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Rise And Shine, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Maggi Green.

Controlled by the clock, everything to be done by a certain time or else the feelings of guilt and imperfection come steamrolling through, the sense of not having achieved even the most simplest of tasks during the time the clock wakes you and allows you the brief respite of dreams; this is the greatest form of punishment that humanity has bestowed upon itself, the complexity of time reduced down to moments in which life is either behind or ahead of self doubt and the insecurity of being seen as feckless and inadequate.

Rise And Shine, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. Liverpool Fringe Festival. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Crime And Punishment, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nathan Benjamin, Bow Towers, Yahya Baggash, P.J. Murray, Michael Cavanagh, Helen Lanceley, Peter Durr, Pam Campbell, Laura Connolly.

There is a stark and simple truth, an element of wholesomeness and direct appeal that Burjesta Theatre bring to the stage; the stripped back but achingly beautiful way of producing their adaptive productions, be it dealing with great weighty historical novels such as War and Peace or the huge wonderful explorations of Greek tragedy theatre, all is given the reverence of the magisterial, the subtle timings of players performing for the enjoyment of the words and the greatness of the play.

Crime And Punishment, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

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

Dr. Faustus, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michael Cavanagh, Will Burn, Maria Hutchison, Faye Caddick, Stephen Kinsella, Ian Gray, Elaine Stewart, Yahya Baggash, Peter Durr, Alan Bower.

The price of having it all, of truly understanding everything, is far too high, especially if you have to make a pact with the Devil to achieve it.

Dr. Faustus, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

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

All Quiet On The Western, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Peter Durr, Alan Gillespie, Alun Parry, Adam Byrne, Ifan James, Syephen J Higgins, Alan Bower, Eleanor Parry, Giulia Rampone, Gillian Paterson-Fox, Helen Shrimpton.

In the year that marks the 100th Anniversary of the most futile, military posturing and insane of all wars commencing, it is always worth remembering that the conflict was not fought on the grounds of justness like its successor but by people who led their countries down a path in which millions of men, women and children were killed and slaughtered. A path in which bore fruit shamed in blackness and would propagate seeds so vile that the working class of all countries who participated in, would suffer the most terrible hardships and loss.

All Quiet On The Western, Theatre Review. The Casa, Liverpool. full post

(578 words, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)