Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Gillian Hardie, Keddy Sutton.
With a song in their hearts…well, more of a set of tunes and harmonies that has been lovingly taken from one of the much adored musical of all time and which has had a treatment most befitting of satire and the huge comic embrace that only Keddy Sutton, Gillian Hardie and Homotopia could wonderfully provide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Michael Lattin-Rawstrone, Rebecca Rogers, Simone Lewis.
It is sometimes overlooked that people under the age of 16 have opinions, their beliefs and thoughts are quite often more insightful that those in their 40’s, what they lack is just someone to listen carefully, the result, if heeded, could be surprising.
Action Transport Theatre revel in this approach and in Statik, the theatre group’s premise holds fast and makes the most of their interaction and questioning of the younger section of society on certain aspects of life. It is an approach that brings fascinating results and for that alone Action Transport Theatre should be applauded.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Joseph England, Simon Hedger, Jack Quarton, Olivia Meguer, Max Rubin, Modou Bah, Hannah Gover, Teresa O’Brien.
There are some works that are too good to keep hidden from those that would demean and diminish them. Some works may need to be spirited away in case certain people take offence and see the satire as a personal attack. However those in the very highest of offices do sometimes need reminding that they are they to serve the people, not the other way round. No matter how long it takes to get a novel published or someone to take it on as, what can only be described as riveting, in a theatre setting, at some point the message will get through, such is the fate of Mikhail Bulgakov’s work, The Master and Margarita.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Tom Burroughs, John Doull, Gary Cain, Will Matthews.
Just who are the greatest ever fictional detectives? Or perhaps rather, who are the greatest detectives who could give the criminal element a run for their money when it comes to the game. In The Unthinkable Mystery of The Indigo Star, written by Ed Bixter and directed by Suzy Walker, the game is, as Sherlock Holmes said, “a foot”.
Three men on a train out of Paris; all asked by their Government to investigate the death of Sherlock Holmes and the disappearance of the world famous Indigo Star jewel, surely only Hercule Poirot, Inspector Maigret and Chief Inspector Clouseau can crack the case?
New writing one-act play festival Write Now, brings six brand new pieces, one from outside the region and five from Merseyside–based playwrights to Unity Theatre’s stages from Wednesday 18th to Saturday 21st September.
“We relocated to the Unity Theatre and have tweaked the structure for this our fourth event,” admits Ian Moore, Festival Founder and Director, “putting the focus firmly upon the playwright and director.”
The variety within the six productions offers an eclectic mix for all tastes.
Desperately seeking a cure for her daughter, Margot Agnew’s Guardian Angel looks at how one woman’s desperation leads her to be drawn into occult practices which have unexpected results.
Unity Theatre and Lodestar Theatre are proud to present one of the greatest ever novels being brought to life in an epic new adaptation. The Master and Margarita is a riotously funny multi-layered story that combines the love affair of the century, Satan’s visit to Moscow, the final days of Christ and a fantastical cast of supernatural and historical figures.
Bulgakov’s wild imagination is brought to life by the Unity Theatre and the award-winning Lodestar Theatre using video, puppetry, magic, animation and performance to create an extraordinary show. The Master and Margarita is adapted by Max Rubin, runs at the Unity Theatre from Tuesday 1st October till Saturday 12th October.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Eddie John Fortune, Becky Brooks.
Does art imitate life or does life take a big huge dollop of inspiration from the art that goes on around it? In the case of two fellow struggling actors who live in Dingle, the hastily drawn chalk mark between these lines have become blurred and in the end the fractious nature of their relationship, the acerbic co-dependency that has been formed can only lead to one conclusion that both Eddie and Jackie need each other, despite the fact that they drive each other up the wall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ceri Wyn, Alyson Marks, Callum Roberts, John Risley, Joel Clarke, Robert Williamson, Hannah Thompson, Eden Kane, Olivia Coleman, Rhiannon Davies-McCabe, Grace Boundy, Toni Swords.
For the United Kingdom, the social upheaval that various cities faced with steely and grim determination as its children were taken away from the danger of daily bombardment and death from Hitler’s onslaught during World War Two thankfully, has never had to be repeated again. For every city, its children were sent to the country to keep them safe and in Lyn Wakefield’s touchingly beautiful 80 Miles From Home the audience meets a selection of children from the most bombarded city outside of the capital and how they dealt with homesickness and being in a strange land.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Dave O’ Grady is just one of those musicians that no matter how many times you see him during a year he still manages to make the gig you are attending feel as though it is the most important gig you will ever see him perform at. His manner is intoxicating and the voice he possess an absolute gift to audiences, so much so that whether you catch him on the street or in the acoustically dramatic venues such as Leaf or the main theatre inside the Unity on Hope Place, crowds will take him to their heart and the superb music along for the ride as well.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
No matter what you throw at Anna Corcoran; be it the sound of a blender going berserk in the background of an prominent gig during Liverpool’s Sound City, the raucous and ecstatic birthday celebrations that greeted her as she went on stage to celebrate the second anniversary of Ian Prowse’s Monday Night Club on Mathew Street or even the road system that connects the city that she calls home and the Northumbrian community in which she lives in, she gives her absolute and unfiltered attention to her work.