Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Charlotte Croft, Liz Crother, Linden Walcott-Burton, Nicola Blackwell.
Through the silent movement of the wind such memories of grief can be harnessed. Grief, like hate is one end of the extremes of feelings in which humanity can find themselves dwelling, grief has to be endured and it can take time, time to which other might not grant you but it must be felt to be able to move on and accept what has happened.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Connor Lee Dye, Matilda Weaver, Michael Bryan, Sophie Cottle, Chris Mohan, Fia Harrington, Emily Kingston, Joseph Wood, Maisie Young, James Botterill, Anna Brochmann, Hailey Mashburn.
Performed by third-year L.I.P.A. acting students, Luke Barnes’ epic new play, Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class?, looks at the brief history of one fictional community, whose people are trying to keep their heads above water whilst all around them their jobs are being removed alongside the industry and the unions. Unity one is completely opened up for this production and all actors remain on stage throughout, completing costume changes and constructing the set for scene changes themselves.
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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Samuel Nicholas, Solomon Israel, Michelle Asante.
By talking we are able to express our emotions, our fears, our doubts and concerns with greater clarity than we ever can by the silence that surrounds us. At times though grief is so overpowering that the simple things like laughter, joy and love can only be shown by the quiet and hushed up screams. The internal rage and sorrow of loss can only ever be expressed by non verbal communication and it affects us more than we realise.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * * *
Cast: Jack Hobbs aka Hobbit, Ryan Harston aka LoGisTics, Elisha Howe aka Elektric, Mohsen Nouri.
What do you get when you get a beat-boxer, poet, dancer and puppeteer in the same room? Certainly nothing that has been seen before as, 20 Stories High and Theatre-Rites collaborate to produce a spectacular show.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Martha Shrimpton, Olivia Hirst.
As you enter Unity One, there is nothing much on stage to give any hint as to what may lie ahead. A coat stand, table, two chairs and a piano – what does stand out however, is the very modern looking microphone placed stage right that is used very cleverly by our duo to begin the piece by creating sound effects. With the use of a loop station they fill the space with noises of the wind and different animal voices that create the effects of a farm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Maggie Fox, Sue Ryding.
The eeriness of the London Fog, the sound of a violin playing somewhere down a fashionable street in West London and the inevitable descent into the criminal underworld that stalks and terrorises Victorian England, all trade-marks that make Sherlock Holmes the man to solve even the most heinous of crimes, especially one as dangerous, as perplexing as The Garibaldi Biscuit Affair; this is not a case where Lip Service is just paid to the Gothic, it is dunked completely and raises many current questions.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Duncan Cameron, Graham Hicks, Josie Cerise, Keddy Sutton.
The humble pea is never truly given the chance to shine, is never truly the heroic type and is only ever seen to grace a good shepherd’s pie or instead be mushed down, taken to task as it adorns a plate of fish and chips. Yet once upon a time a Princess had much to owe the pea and its legendary status was confirmed. It is a status that enhanced as Liverpool’s Unity Theatre offers this Christmas the age old story of The Princess and the Pea and it is a tale to delight and capture the very best of imagination for all who make their way to the theatre on Hope Place this December.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Testament, DJ Woody
Blake Remixed is beatboxer and rapper Testament’s first theatre show and looks at how relevant the poetry and art of William Blake still is today. An early influence in Testaments life, this show explores the relevance that Blake’s work and themes can still have on our culture. He compares today’s society to the time of Blake’s and asks if social justice, religious and racial tolerance is any different. Testament takes on Blake’s poetry and puts his own unique stamp on 18th century themes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Cathy Tyson, Chereen Buckley.
Homelessness is such a serious issue in 21st Century Britain that it should be considered a national crime, an offence by successive governments upon the people of the land to who have been let down, systematically and without hope. We are sold a pup, an image of fecklessness of people making this particular choice for themselves and that the statistics are wrong, that people are not homeless, they are just beggars, idle cheats and scroungers; this image is so far removed from the truth that it is impossible not to see the pain and division it causes, not just between the haves and have not’s bit in what was even the tightest of bonds, between mother and daughter, father and son.