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Beachy Head, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. February 16th 2011.

Cast: Sarah Belcher, Dan Ford, Katie Lightfoot, Matt Tate, Neal Craig.

There is only one way to describe Analogue’s production of Beachy Head and that is shockingly powerful, a play that will have audiences leaving the theatre having their perceptions changed about the way we look at the way someone takes their own life.

The Unity Theatre once more played perfect host to a troupe of actors and a story that is swept under the carpet and not discussed openly in any home. The intimacy of the stage reflecting perfectly how the main character of Stephen Mitchell, played with stunning grace by Dan Ford, and his story, as told initially by the other actors on the stage.

Beachy Head, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 16th 2011.

Cast: Sarah Leaver.

The mystery and beguilement that surrounds the treatment and life of an individual who was born Intersexed is gently and lovingly portrayed by Sarah Leaver in the Unity Theatre’s latest production Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite.

Drawing on the real life story of Herculin Barbin, Sarah Leaver takes the audience through sections of Herculin’s life, part voyeuristic, part shrouded in fine Greek mythology, the audience is taken through how the young Herculin’s life was changed from being a young girl at the nunnery in La Rochelle and falling in love to her own discovery, and that of everybody else that she was born an Hermaphrodite.

Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Rid The World, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Cast: Hugo Chandor, Andrew Sykes, Lewis Marsh, Andrew Roberts-Palmer.

The year 1911 could be seen as a corner stone in the life of Liverpool and yet the life of Tom Mann and The Liverpool Transport Strike of that year is not readily available for the youth and teenagers growing up in the city to learn about.

Thankfully with the run up to the 100th anniversary of this momentous occasion Breathe Out Theatre have adapted Trevor Griffiths Such Impossibilities and created a hard hitting play called Rid the World.

Rid The World, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(363 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Black Snow, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 28th 2011.

Mikhail Bulgakov is not a name that runs easily off the lips and there will be many who will not have had the pleasure of reading anything by possibly one of the greats of Ukrainian literature which is a shame for his adaptation of Black Snow by Keith Dewhurst is one of the most perfect satirical take on the life within theatre and its allusions to nationhood.

Black Snow, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(368 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

If The Shoe Fits, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 10th 2011.

Cast: Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Waller, Su Burke, Trevor Fleming, James Williams-Watts, Al T Kossy.

In amongst the high profile theatre productions going on in Liverpool over the next couple of months, one piece of genuine theatre may have passed the everyday theatre goer by, which is, with all things considered, a shame. For in Boom Boom Baby Productions of If the Shoe Fits, audiences were left reeling with laughter as the company thrilled everyone with their irreverent look at Liverpool life through the eyes of a group of people who work in a high class shoe shop.

If The Shoe Fits, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(340 words, 1 image, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Elastic Bridge, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Picture courtesy from tabardweb.co.uk

Originally published by L.S.Media. June 16th 2011.

Cast: Eddie Fortune, Rosie MacPherson, John James Tomlinson.

One of the final plays of the current season on offer by the Unity Theatre is the hard hitting and emotional drama, Elastic Bridge. Unusually for a play, as the audience took their seats to enjoy the show, one of the actors was already on stage pacing the small set in a scene of absolute desperation etched all over his face. This unique beginning drew the audience in straight from the start and provided a new take on how to stage a performance.

Elastic Bridge, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(295 words, 1 image, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Picture from Liverpool Daily Post

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 2nd 2011.

Cast: Micky Finn, Terry O’Shea, Mark Allen, Ruth Laird, Louise Thomas, Laura McEwan, Clair Griffiths, Dave Crosby, Ami-Lee Price, Charlie Griffiths.

For tears, laughter, a genuine dollop of nostalgia and long buried memories, audiences could not go far wrong to catch Brian McCann’s musical play Down Our Street.

Although only running for three days at the Unity Theatre, the play is sold out with no room to spare as audiences were treated to the birth of a town and an industry that supported the growth and presided over some of the bad times that sometimes inevitably follows it.

Down Our Street, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Daily Times, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2011.

Cast: Oliver Reynolds,  Mike Idris, Amy Stokes.

The Unity is one of those rare examples of a theatre that is prepared to take chances and offer a wide range of productions that can be fresh, exciting and mind blowing to sit through, the enjoyment is there regardless and even in a play that doesn’t quite hit the mark, the theatre should be congratulated for putting it on and letting audiences decide for themselves.

The Daily Times, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(362 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

It’s Uniformation Day, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool

photograph by edinburghfestival.list.co.uk

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 12th 2011.

Cast: Britt Jurgensen, Ben Philips, Mary Pearson.

One of the fascinating and tremendous things about spending the night in the theatre is that occasionally you get challenged to think outside of the metaphorical box and tackle something that will really get the imagination going and the fingers poised over the top of your head ready to scratch just in case you might not realise what’s going on.

It’s Uniformation Day, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool full post

(351 words, 1 image, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Withering Looks, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. October 23rd 2011.

Direction: Noreen Kershaw.

Cast: Sue Ryding, Maggie Fox.

LSMedia Rating: ****

The company’s name may be Lip Service but the two actors who make up this wonderful duo do more than pay the barest glimpse into the lives of two of the leading literary lights of the 19th Century, they bring Charlotte and Emily Bronte to life in a way not thought of but in a style that was highly original and warmly greeted by all those in attendance.

Withering Looks, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(371 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)