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Whole, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Annabel Annan-Jonathan, Jacob Beswick, Joseph Adelakun, Grace Willis.

Is anybody truly whole? That is the question bought to the Unity Theatre by the combined efforts of 20 Stories High, Director Julia Samuels and a host of others in what can only be described as distressingly real, wonderfully charged and written and acted with so much passion and brilliance that not only is Whole one of the finest things you are likely to see this year but it will also leave you grasping at thoughts of those you may have wronged at school.

Whole, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Robert Vincent, Gig Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Robert Vincent is one of the great acoustic artists playing in Liverpool right now. He also has been very busy in recent months, so busy that it makes you wonder when he finds time to catch his breath, let alone do any recording. Aside from getting ready to unleash his new album, Life In Easy Steps, he has been interviewed by the London press and those whose musical knowledge is second to none.

Robert Vincent, Gig Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(367 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Big Wow!

One of the huge delights of the Liverpool theatre calendar is the appearance of the Big Wow team at the Unity Theatre. Their physical comedy performances delight and astound audiences no matter what show they have put on and are firm favourites in Liverpool.

Big Wow consist of three incredible talents that are made up of performers Tim Lynskey and Matt Rutter and the writer Robert Farquhar. Sitting in the Unity theatre before one of their shows and talking to a team that not only thrill audiences but can make them question the world through the use of physical comedy is slightly nerve racking and completely inspiring.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Big Wow! full post

(1728 words, estimated 6:55 mins reading time)

Purplecoat Productions Will Bring Titus Andronicus To The Unity Theatre Stage.

 A Shakespearean tragedy of hatred, murder and cruelty. An embittered Roman General returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths and her three sons. Sacrificing the eldest, in memory of his own sons killed in battle, he provokes the Queen’s hatred but when she marries the new Emperor of Rome, she begins to plot her murderous revenge.

Purplecoat Productions bring one of Shakespeare’s and history’s most underrated tragedies, the excellent Titus Andronicus, to the Unity Theatre on February 5th and 6th.  The company have recently thrilled audiences at the Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street with their superb version of Little Voice and aim to hit the heights once more with this production.

Purplecoat Productions Will Bring Titus Andronicus To The Unity Theatre Stage. full post

(227 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

The Art Of Falling Apart, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tim Lynskey, Matt Rutter.

There can be no doubt that Tim Lynskey, Matt Rutter and Robert Farquhar make a formidable and astonishing team. The exhaustive and physical brilliance that Mr. Lynskey and Mr. Rutter bring to the Unity Theatre is matched stride for stride in the writing by Robert Farquhar and in The Art of Falling Apart there is very little time for the audience to get blasé as they are bombarded with a section of a man’s life that is unraveling and unwinding before everyone’s eyes.

The Art Of Falling Apart, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Terry Titter’s Spaced Out Christmas, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are some institutions that are just too good to let go and wander off into the wilderness. Some needed bringing back every year to make sure they entertain the incredible multitude of fans they have and give them a good dose of laughter whenever possible. In Terry Titter’s case that should be for as long as he wants to.

Terry Titter’s Spaced Out Christmas, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(322 words, 1 image, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

Next!, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Written and performed by Graham Hicks.

Just over a year ago Graham Hicks walked on stage at the Unity Theatre and gave an inspired, mesmerizing and enthralling performance of his play Next!

Since that time, the play has been re-worked slightly, a few changes added and improved upon, if that were at all possible and the end result is that Graham Hicks deserves to be considered a hero of local theatre. It is not everyone that can carry of an entire performance by themselves. Not every entertainer or actor is capable is just using the littered insanity that makes up a life in order to make the audience feel a kinship, a special type of longing to befriend someone in dire need of comradeship or even just to pick up the phone as they await that one call that could change their life.

Next!, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(417 words, 1 image, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Lavender Girls, Cabaret Night Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The cabaret night is not one that gets much of a mention in today’s modern world. It can be, unfairly labelled as a relic to a by-gone age by some hard-hearted critics but sometimes the one size fits all approach to an evening’s entertainment is just as good a night out as one dominated by just comedy or an evening of music.

Lavender Girls, Cabaret Night Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(326 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Charlie Griffiths

For anyone who has caught Charlie Griffiths either on stage in one of her many theatre productions or hearing her sing as part of the duo Killa Sista, it is easy to see why so many critics and, more importantly, audiences love her. She has numerous credits to her name, her first television appearance in Children’s Ward at the age of 13 led onto other  television roles. Her love of theatre has seen her star in Road as Helen, the title role in Everyman, Emma in A Liverpool Tale and Gloria in Return To Forbidden Planet.

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(1663 words, 1 image, estimated 6:39 mins reading time)

Scotty Road-The Musical, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Scotland Road is one of the most iconic and celebrated roads in Liverpool, it has been home to a community who have looked at its heyday with a certain fondness and others have looked at it with begrudging respect that it held so many people together despite any backlash from other areas that ran it down. People have lived there; worked there and grown up there, it is only right that eventually a musical would be based on Scotty Road.

Scotty Road-The Musical, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)