Tag Archives: Angela Simms

Bouncers, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Broughton, Danny O’ Brien, Michael Starke, Mark Womack.

In the night time, in the sometimes unforgiving dark which is briefly punctuated by loud thumping music and neon lights enticing the weary, the foolhardy and the desperate, the bouncer is king of his domain. What he says, happens, if he tells you to sling your hook, you go, tail between your legs; if he orders you to laugh, cry and feel as though the night has been an almighty success, then you have probably seen John Godber’s acclaimed play, Bouncers at the Royal Court Theatre.

Bouncers, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre. Liverpool. full post

(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Ladies Day, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Eithne Browne, Lynne Francis, Roxanne Pallett, Angela Simms, Jack Lord.

The glitter, the finery, the new frocks and strange alien language truly known only by a smattering of people can only mean one thing; that Amanda Whittington’s play Ladies Day is in Liverpool and under starter’s orders to go down as one of the great feel good productions of 2013.

Ladies Day, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lynn Francis.

This month sees The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool host Amanda Whittington’s play Ladies Day. First produced and staged by Hull Truck Theatre in 2005, the play stars three of Liverpool’s impressive and likeable female actors in Eithne Browne, Lynn Francis, Angela Simms and the trio are joined by Emmerdale’s Roxanne Pallet as a group of factory workers who all want different things out of life and decide to visit the world famous Aintree Racecourse. They are joined by the only male in the show Jack Lord who is sure to get the run around from this foursome of impressive women.

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Saturday Supplement, An Interview With Lynn Francis. full post

(1002 words, estimated 4:00 mins reading time)

Enjoy A Day At The Races As Amanda Whittington’s Comedy Ladies Day Comes To The Royal Court.

Royal Court Liverpool will be spending June and July at the races with Amanda Whittington’s fantastic comedy Ladies Day, starring Emmerdale’s Roxanne Pallett!

The show will run from 14th June – 13th July and will be Ken Alexander’s first show as Artistic Director. The show attracted rave reviews when originally performed by Hull Truck Theatre Company in 2005. The original setting was Royal Ascot at York Racecourse but this production will see the action moved to Aintree Ladies Day.

The cast is now confirmed and it will see a mix of old faces and new coming to the Court.

Enjoy A Day At The Races As Amanda Whittington’s Comedy Ladies Day Comes To The Royal Court. full post

(281 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

If The Shoe Fits, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre. Liverpool

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlie Griffiths, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Simms, Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Chris Crookall, Lesley Hughes, Trev Fleming, James William-Watts, Michael Swift.

To see how far an idea can go, to see it flourish and become part of a city’s conscious, you don’t have to go a long way from the centre of town to the Epstein Theatre to witness the power of a great play and the imagination to keep taking it one stage further. When the Unity Theatre staged Donna Lesley Price’s supremely funny play If The Shoe Fits, no one could surely have envisioned just how it would grow and take root. From the Unity to the Floral Pavilion on the other side of the Mersey and now to one of the heart-land theatres, If The Shoe Fits continues to blossom and be an outstanding piece of Liverpool theatre.

If The Shoe Fits, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre. Liverpool full post

(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Donna Lesley Price’s If The Shoe Fits To Step Out At The Epstein Theatre.

Get ready to meet the staff of ‘Goody 2 Shooz’ as smash hit comedy If The Shoe Fits returns to Liverpool, this time gracing the stage at the city’s Epstein Theatre. The award-winning show will run at the Epstein from the 16th – 20th April and with a fan base ranging from sixteen to sixty returning every year to see their favourite characters and their antics on stage, tickets are expected to be in high demand.

Donna Lesley Price’s If The Shoe Fits To Step Out At The Epstein Theatre. full post

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

An Interview With Angela Simms From The Rainbow Connection.

This week has seen the superb The Rainbow Connection come to The Unity Theatre. A play that deals with the relationship between a gay man and a straight woman of whom both have suffered hurt in one form or another and who through time come to realise they need each other in their lives.

An Interview With Angela Simms From The Rainbow Connection. full post

(1338 words, estimated 5:21 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.

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

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

If The Shoe Fits. Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. Theatre Review.

Originally published on L.S. Media. 2nd August 2012.

Cast: Charlie Griffiths, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Simms, Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Al T. Kossy, Lesley Hughes, Trevor Fleming, James William-Watts, Michael Swift.

When a play is as terrific, expansive and well observed as If The Shoe Fits, then no matter what theatre it is put on at, it is sure to draw the crowds in their numbers and be enjoyed for what it is, a play that really draws on the underbelly of city life, its laughter, its dreams and also its seedier side which is just as much a part of humanity as the bright lights and shopping malls.

If The Shoe Fits. Floral Pavilion, New Brighton. Theatre Review. full post

(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)