Tag Archives: Cathy Tyson

McDonald & Dodds: The Man Who Wasn’t There. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Rob Brydon, Martin Kemp, Cathy Tyson, Rupert Graves, Patsy Kensit, Victor Oshin, Femi Nylander, Vince Leigh, Jack Riddiford, Lily Sacofsky, James Murray, Jonty Stephens, Mia McCallum.

How your opinion can change is to be thought of as a sign of growth, of maturity, or maybe it is just that in the first introduction the feeling of being underwhelmed couldn’t be ignored on the other side that they upped their game to make sure you understood perfectly well that they took the criticism on board and became more in tune with the image they wanted to portray.

McDonald & Dodds: The Man Who Wasn’t There. Television Review. full post

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

She Called Me Mother, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Cathy Tyson, Chereen Buckley.

Homelessness is such a serious issue in 21st Century Britain that it should be considered a national crime, an offence by successive governments upon the people of the land to who have been let down, systematically and without hope. We are sold a pup, an image of fecklessness of people making this particular choice for themselves and that the statistics are wrong, that people are not homeless, they are just beggars, idle cheats and scroungers; this image is so far removed from the truth that it is impossible not to see the pain and division it causes, not just between the haves and have not’s bit in what was even the tightest of bonds, between mother and daughter, father and son.

She Called Me Mother, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Bright Phoenix, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

 

Rhodri Mellir as Spike in Bright Phoenix. Photograph by Jonathan Keenan.

Rhodri Mellir as Spike in Bright Phoenix. Photograph by Jonathan Keenan.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Carl Au, Paul Duckworth, Rhian Green, Penny Layden, Rhodri Mellir, Mark Rice-Oxley, Cathy Tyson, Keiran Urquhart, Laura J. Martin, Vidar Norheim.

Somewhere over the rooftops of Liverpool, a haunting soliloquy is sang softly by one of the people the new renaissance taking place in the city couldn’t touch. In Lime Street an old ghost comes home to face the past and a group of children’s memories are re-awoken. The Futurist Cinema may be gone but its soul still resonates in those that made it their home and for the future, a Bright Phoenix stirs from the ashes of a crumbling society.

Bright Phoenix, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(570 words, 1 image, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)

Cathy Tyson Returns To The Liverpool Stage For Edinburgh Festival Hit Comedy Monkey Bars.

Liverpool Everyman alumnus Cathy Tyson will return to the city’s stage later this autumn in a new comedy at the Playhouse. Cathy will feature in Monkey Bars, a funny and perceptive verbatim show where children’s conversations are re-enacted by adults – playing adults – in adult situations. Chris Goode’s Edinburgh Fringe favourite comes to the Liverpool Playhouse Studio from Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th October.

A hit with critics and audiences when it premiered in Edinburgh in 2012, earning a Fringe First Award, Monkey Bars is a funny and endlessly surprising verbatim show which offers a revelatory insight into what children are trying to tell us about their lives, and ours, that we don’t always hear.

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(391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)