For the past 18 months the University of Liverpool’s Guild building has lain seemingly asleep. Its shell under wraps in much the same way as the Everyman Theatre just a short walk down the road had been before its grand reopening earlier in the year. These two monuments to creativity and ingenuity, to freedom of expression and the desire for change, whether through anger or gentle reasoned discourse, share the same reasons for being, to protect, serve and nurture.
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Play With Myself: The Trials And Tribulations Of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike. Theatre Review. 81 Renshaw Street, Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Liam Hale, Dominic Davies, Rio Matchett, David Paes, Sean Stokes.
The world according to Gregory Bike, a mantra for all the giants of theatre, a man to whom you should listen to with open ears and open minds…a man to whom the word theatre is the be all and end all of life’s pursuit of truth and experience…a man who exists completely as fantastic extension of Liam Hale’s superb imagination and for whom Play With Myself: The Trials and Tribulations of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike will surely be rated as a must see at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Doctor Chris Williams And Actor Owen Teale Bring Under Milk Wood To Life At Waterstones.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Time passes…Sitting back in a chair inside Waterstones on a Tuesday afternoon and listening to an expert from the University of Liverpool and one of the finest Welsh actors talk of Dylan Thomas’ seminal Under Milk Wood, it is possible to contemplate on what the townsfolk of Llareggub may have thought of all the adulation being bestowed upon a man who created them in this the 100th anniversary of the poet, writer, thinker and pondering wordsmith’s birth.
Canterbury Tales, Theatre Review. L.U.D.S. Stanley Theatre, University Of Liverpool.
Mr. Geraint Williams as Geoffrey Chaucer. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Geraint Williams, Dominic Davies, Daniel Murphy, Shamus Cooke, Alex Webber-Date, Liam Hale, Trixie Roddick, George Parsons, Angela Hehir, Faisel Yousif, Charles Adey, James Rooney, Lewis Smith, Imogen Wignall, Katie Overbury, Jacob Lowman, Madeline Smart, Johnny Campbell, Charlotte Wilson, George Trier, Darren Begley.
Minstrels: Darren Begley, Alex Cottrell, Sarah Peverley, Maeve Sullivan.
Space, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. (2014)
Tommy Scott of Space at the 02 Academy, Liverpool. 2014. Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It had all been leading to this. The moment when the re-emergence of one of the great Liverpool bands kicked off touring again, being back in the studio for the first time in years, re-connecting with those that never wanted to say goodbye to them and the songs; the epic nature of tracks that more than ever had the ring of truth and perfection about them.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Ragz Nordset.
Ragnhild Øhren Nordset sits down with the comfortable ease of a woman whose life has been allowed to breathe, to take stock of time between leaving her family home in Hokksund, Norway and finding for the second time that Liverpool is just as important to her as what she may have ever had. Ragz, her professional music name but also a term of wonderful endearment, smiles and a passionate light comes from her Norwegian eyes that I will come to see throughout the whole interview and beyond is fiercely proud but also humble when asked about the music she performs.
Pool (No Water), Theatre Review. Stanley Theatre, University of Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Dominic Davies, Jacob Lowman, Iona Campbell, Madeline Smart, Charlotte Parson, Bryony Holloway.
It can be argued that it takes immense courage or character of spirit to take on the writing of Mark Ravenhill, especially his play Pool (No Water) which speaks volumes of how art and artists are a breed that need constant nurturing. The work though leaves so much to the interpretation of the brave director who has made it their life’s mission to try and go through the entangled genius and come up with something that tears at the mind and catches the emotions of the audience at their peak.
Of Mice And Men, Theatre Review. Stanley Theatre, University of Liverpool.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Christian Darnell, Greg Vicary, Michael Cook, George Parsons, Katie Overbury, Liam Middleton, Jonny Campbell, Alex Webber-Date, Patrick D’Arcy, Devan Pankhania.
The number of people who do not know the story Of Mice and Men is becoming less each generation as schools adopt Steinbeck’s classic into their curriculum early on. Therefore, Liverpool University Drama Society (LUDS) decision to produce this as their first play of the academic year was, if nothing else, a signal of intent from a society that, at amateur level, is building a reputation of producing captivating and quality theatre.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Natalie McCool.
In one of the hottest and keenly contested categories in this year’s Liverpool Music Awards, Natalie McCool, Anna Corcoran and Eva Peterson are all strong contenders for Female Artist of the Year 2013. Ms. McCool has had a phenomenal year with the release of her debut album and several high profile gigs in which she has wowed audience members and critics alike.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Rising Comedian Alastair Clark.
Alastair Clark sits back in the seats on the first floor of FACT on Wood Street and grins. The man who hails from Grantham in Lincolnshire is intensely likeable as a person, as many of University colleagues have threatened to attest to, he is one of the many University graduates that find themselves at the bitter end of the current recession/depression, depending on who you talk to, saddled with debt for wanting to learn and trying to make a difference.