Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
It is said that somewhere between joy and despair lies happiness; perhaps acceptance would be better because happiness is surely attained when you have watched someone almost take themselves the absolute limit, perform something astonishing and see them smile at the end, that surely is the meaning of happiness; the moment in which you have seen someone achieve something great and powerful.
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Cast: Martin Bonger, Margit Szlavik, Elisabet Topp.
There is nothing better feeling than coming out of the theatre knowing you haven’t just been entertained but also educated as well. It is like reading for example American Pastoral by Philip Roth and realising just how much you have learned about the art of making gloves or the inside knowledge of whales you find repeating when reading Moby Dick, theatre is another avenue in which to be cultivated and undeniably enlightened, especially when the play is North North North.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Nir Paldi, Orian Michaeli, Amy Nostbakken, Seiko Nakazawa, Stefi Sourial, Deborah Pugh, Pete Aves.
The tale of one boy growing up in the settlements of Israel, the history behind his family and the darkness that seeps through like an admission of youthful guilt is introduced not with the fading bell of entropy but with the sound of music, the reckless, wonderfully stirring style of Berlin in the 1920s and with the gaze of the a man pouring into your soul looking for understanding and a sort of forgiveness, not many plays have this at its heart, there is probably no play around that captures the soul in quite the same way as Ballad Of The Burning Star.
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Cast: John McKeever, Anna-Helena McLean, Clare Perkins.
In the back of our minds, we all hope, perhaps secretly, that we will be remembered for the good we have bought into the world. Even if by the smallest gesture, the one thing that makes our existence meaningful will somehow transform the way the world is looked at. It need not even be a grand gesture, the erection of a large building and dedicated to all for example but in just the smallest way, the tiniest particle of our humanity passed on might give hope to millions.
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Cast: Denise Kennedy, Andrew Frizell.
Whitechapel has produced more than a few characters of ill repute and more than a few of notable glory over the last couple of centuries but arguably none were like Bella Burge. A woman who typified the spirit of the East-End, who on her 11th birthday walked through the same misbegotten streets as Jack the Ripper, who was taken in and apprenticed by one of Music Halls leading lights, trod the boards herself, married a championship winning boxer only to see him arrested as part of a bank fraud/betting scam three weeks later in Liverpool and who in the end became the first woman Boxing promoter in the world. Bella Burge is ripe to spoken of just as highly as anybody from the East-End.
Local Theatre Company, I AM A VOICE, returns to celebrate International Women’s week with an engaging and poignant performance at the Unity Theatre on March 6th and March 7th.
I AM A VOICE is a local theatre company set up by Lina Sebuyange to raise awareness for women who’re mistreated around the world – combining drama, music, poetry, spoken word, story-telling and movement to engage audiences and participants in dialogue and create the first step of giving a voice to the voiceless.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.
Supported by Mark Lea, Hannah Plant, Jack Cooper, Warren Tutt, Joe Ball, Thoma Galashan, Jake Barrowcliffe, Michael Coumas, Bethany Sprontson, Jade Thomson, Ewan Pollitt, Jamie Barton, Sam Williams.
If you keep your wits about you, you will not be harmed. If you keep the information that you hold to yourself and don’t give into the piercing stare, the charm and easy smile of the interrogator then you will have avoided The Judgement of Hakim. Find yourself in left wing book shop, too late, he knows and you’re on a list, read right wing literature, he knows and you’re on a list, buy a certain food, on a list, in fact anything you do in life is listed and what you hold as freedom is just purely an illusion but vital to the trade of the interrogator.
On February 1st China Pearl, in association with the Unity Theatre, will celebrate the Chinese Year of the Horse by bringing a new eclectic Chinese cultural programme of authentic, innovative, exquisite and electrifying dance and music featuring traditional, contemporary and fusion styles.
The performances include China Pearl Chinese dance group, Chinese dancer Fenfen Huang – Dancer, choregrapher, creative producer and cultural educator with over 10 years’ working experiences internationally, Chinese dancer Susie Lu, Chinese harpist Yuxuan Su – A harpist with over a decade of performing experience internationally, Funky Mentals Break Dance group and Chinese singer Aaron Deng. It is also a chance to learn different aspects of Chinese culture including history, ethnicity and modernity.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Jenny Runacre, Reaya Sealey, Ashleigh Pacham, Holly Rivers, Mairi Phillips.
There have been so many theories and speculated conjectures surrounding the many possible veiled references to Alice In Wonderland that it enough to make the poor girl’s head spin. Never mind falling down the rabbit hole, occasionally being shoved with the full force of a 1970s Welsh Rugby Union side with no sight anywhere of a very wide cat and it’s cheesy grin leaping forward to break your fall is more akin to anyone who takes on the utterly charming but completely surreal book by Lewis Carroll.
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Acclaimed opera singer and cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat brought a brilliantly intimate new solo show to the Unity Theatre as part of Liverpool’s ongoing homotopia festival occuring throughout the city as he charted his personal difficulties and triumphs with depression, identity and music.