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The Unity Theatre To Capture The Essence Of Northern Spirit In May.

There are two Norths. There’s the compass point North and there’s the North as an idea.

 In Northern Spirit’s new theatre production A Wondrous Place, which comes to the Unity Theatre from Wednesday 15th till Saturday 18th May, four outstanding young writers challenge the ‘it’s grim up north’ clichés and offer four fresh and vibrant perspectives on four amazing contemporary northern cities: Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester. A Wondrous Place brings these brand four new short-dramas together within one dramatic story sequence. It’s about celebrating all that’s unique about these North of England cities. It’s about discovering what they share. It’s about seeing this part of the world differently and experiencing it with new eyes.

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(931 words, estimated 3:43 mins reading time)

The Victorian in the Wall, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Will Adamsdale, Lyndsey Turner, Jason Barnett, Chris Branch, Matthew Steer, Melanie Wilson.

The thinkers guide to writing procrastination, or rather how to give an audience that one special night where everything comes together, comedy, drama, talking fridges and builders who belittle your confidence with their knowledge of art. Everything that can ever go right and wrong in the course of a week whilst your girlfriend is away is explored to its absolute best by Will Adamsdale in the superb and captivating comedy, The Victorian in the Wall.   

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(383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Oliver Lansley.

The theatre company Les Enfants Terribles are dedicated to creating original, innovative and exciting theatre that challenges, inspires and entertains. The man who founded his creative team is the actor and playwright Oliver Lansley. Well known to television viewers as the man who took on the extraordinary task of portraying the iconic radio and television star Kenny Everett in the 2012 biopic The Best Possible Taste, there is so much more to this versatile actor than portraying in wonderful style a man wrecked by personal demons.

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(1207 words, estimated 4:50 mins reading time)

A Strange Wild Song, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound And Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christopher Harrisson, Julian Spooner, Matthew Wells, Daniel Wilcox, Laila Woozeer.

There is a moment in A Strange Wild Song, a well written piece by Rhum and Clay, where the audience feels part of the action, the bombs being dropped from overhead planes that are falling around the near destroyed French village resonate and echo through 70 years and a couple of hundred miles and bring those in the auditorium face to face with one of the most inhuman parts of human history…and with one of the most interesting tales from World War Two.

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(343 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Borges And I, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast:  Grace Chapman, Sophie Cullen, Nicholas Pitt, Ellie Simpson, Joel Gatehouse, Kate Stanley.

Who controls the words you see? Who do the words that each and every human on the planet fortunate enough to read and enjoy, belong to each and every day? For those that lose the ability to see the words that have meant so much to them, the psychological damage can be devastating.

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(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Cafe Chaos, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Joanna Croll, Jamie Matthewman, Sam Parks, Sian Williams.

The humble cafe is the place where you get to meet the finest array of characters, all with their own peculiar stories of loves and their lives. It is the place where people meet and confess their deepest thoughts and fears and those that really run the establishments, the waiters and the chefs act as father or mother confessors to anyone who may pop in for a routine cup of tea and to tell someone their news. Such is Cafe Chaos; such is the scale of life.

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(438 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Rhum And Clay Bring A Strange Wild Song To The Unity.

When a soldier’s camera is unearthed, his grandson searches for meaning through the photographs inside. He discovers a surreal world of childhood and imagination, as fragments of war explode into the present-day in the critically acclaimed production A Strange Wild Song.

After a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, Rhum and Clay mix absurdist humour and an original musical score to tell a touching story about finding light in the darkest of places.  A Strange Wild Song premiered at the Bedlam Theatre as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012. It was devised and written by the Company and now comes Liverpool’s Unity Theatre for one night only on March 19th.

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(255 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

The Rainbow Connection, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Cast: Angela Simms, Daniel O’Brien

Can two friends of the opposite sex ever really be friends, especially when one is straight and one is gay? Joanne Sherryden’s play The Rainbow Connection looks at life and friendship between Shelly, a woman who has been scarred early in her time and who is hanging on the end of a line by her married lover and Joe, an agoraphobic and badly bruised by life and whose obsessive behaviour threatens to drive him further into his own self made prison.

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(360 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

I Love You Because, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Cast: Lucy Mulvihill, Katie Louise Jones, Zoe Evans, Phil Teles Amaro, Stuart Crowther, Peter Fendall

The faint sounds of New York Jazz filter through the Unity Theatre and from there the audience is taken on a rollercoaster of emotions in which the modern day musical, I Love You Because, is the perfect way to spend time with those you love, even if they don’t know it’s you they are looking for.

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(361 words, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)

Titus Andronicus, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * ½

Cast: Sam Liu, Lauren Fitzpatrick, Karl Falconer, Jason Carragher, Alexander Bollands, Lowell Carragher, Russell Carragher, Matilda Swinney, Alexandra Walker, Siobhan Crinson, Sam Wright, Aimee Marnell, Elena Stephenson, Agata Jarosz, Con O’Neill, Justine Williams, Laura Ryan, Sarah Dwyer.

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(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)