Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Joe Layton, Kate Franz.
If you had the bitter choice of appearing to lose face or losing the respect of someone you love, which road would you take, which option would you endure as you sweat behind the curtain, as you drown in the first beads of self pity and anxious reproach?
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Harriet Feeny, Francois Lecomte, Adam Gordon.
Murder always makes a good spectacle, it always seems to reach down into the very pit of human consciousness and allow even the strongest of moral citizens to subject themselves to nothing more than a titillated spectator, a background ghoul in which the perpetrator feels some weird affinity with. Murder is the biggest seller and when it committed by more than one person, when it is a conspiracy which involves defrauding someone of their life and their money, then the papers and the imagination, the talk and the gossip really salivate at the prospect.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Alan Wales, Winston J. Pyke.
Three plays, two actors, one overwhelming emotion of having sat through brilliance, rarely does the mind allow for such thought to become noticeable as you are immersed within a production but as Groundswell Theatre’s Alan Wales and Winston J. Pyke present the three plays linked by a common theme, it is hard to ignore that voice in the pit of the stomach that dares suggest, that any audience would love the whole experience.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ned Dunne, Max Himpe, Flinn Andreae, George Beard, Henry Eaton-Mercer, Henry Cobb.
Being a socially awkward teenager is hard enough but when you don’t fit in with anybody, when neither the conformists or the radicals will take you in and give you a place at their table, the only course of action is to start your own group, your own movement and if wins you respect or the love of the girl you fancy, then being a Radpole is a position to hold sacred and true to your soul.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Immie Davies, Matilda Reith, Jack Solloway, Isaac Whiting.
Art, as the most profound suggest, should always comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, it is only in challenging any set down convention that we grow as a society and whilst there are subjects in which it is impossible not to feel any type of revulsion, that don’t just make the stomach want to heave slightly at the thought, sometimes, and quite rightly, we should and must find ourselves listening to a slightly different view. It is only in that we can question and probe our own psychology deeper and our understanding of the world, especially those in which commit the heinous act and those who scream vitriol and abuse as if appointed judge of all.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Jo Sargeant, Claire-Louise English.
When an abandoned baby comes into their lives, the daughter and father team that live inside the ruins of a junk yard are given a chance to nurture and care for something other than where life has treated them with disrespect and the cold shoulder of indifference by their fellow man.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Luke Barton, Jill Rutland.
Behind locked doors nobody knows what horrors a family can be put through, what nightmares one family member can wreck upon another; it is the last vestige of unexplored horror because nobody quite knows how to deal with it when it might be apparent but nobody reports it.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Hamish Adams-Cairns, Lisa Marie Berg, Roxanne Browne, Alice Devlin, Harry Kearton, Paul Tonkin.
You were never alone with a Strand cigarette, smoking Marlborough suggested that you were ready for adventure, Camel that there was a touch of the old colonial lurking in you and as for Players or Capstone full strength, that touch of a small cough that came along with the birds singing the dawn chorus was arguably only ever really to be expected. Smoking is bad for you of that there can be no doubt but millions round the world still enjoy the taste of the habit and the sight of the grey Ash that collects in any make do ashtray.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Phil Aughey.
The allure of the Edinburgh Fringe is such that no matter where in the world the theatre company or performer is based, the call of the Scottish lowlands and gentility of Edinburgh is never too far away. Especially when it offers a perspective of a composer of such repute as Chopin but told with great nerve to highlight his time in the country before his early passing from Tuberculosis, such is the effects of Chopin’s Last Stand.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Alex Walsh, Ellice Stevens, Oscar Owen, Kitty Murdoch, Tommy Loftus, Ella Tebay.
Children can be cruel, it is in their cruelty that they either learn how to be adults that care and show empathy or they descend like monkeys into the art of throwing faeces around to show bitterness and superiority over others. It is the state of such things that can also see a child rise to the point where they fit in more closely with the adult world and its often doomed relationships.