Tag Archives: Gavin Spokes

House Of The Dragon. Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Matt Smith, Emma D’ Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Milly Alcock, Fabian Frankel, Eve Best, Graham McTavish, Bill Paterson, Steve Toussaint, Jefferson Hall, Gavin Spokes, Sonoya Mizurio, Matthew Needham, Milly Alcock, Emily Carey, David Horovitch, Kurt Egyiawan, Luke Tittensor, Phil Daniels, Anthony Flanagan, Ewan Mitchell, Ty Tennant, Sian Brooke, Garry Cooper.

Power is not only in hands of those wield it in the moment, but to those who can claim lineage to its formation.

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(531 words, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

One Man, Two Guvnors. Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Emma Barton, Derek Elroy, Shaun Williamson, Jasmyn Banks, David Verrey, Edward Hancock, Gavin Spokes, Alicia Davies, Patrick Warner, Elliot Harper, Michael Dylan, Lace Akpojaro, Owen Guerin, Mark Hayden, Katherine Moraz, Catherine Morris, Joseph O’ Malley.

Nobody can serve or be beholden to two people at the same time. Loyalties are not just split but they create a chasm so wide that even Eddie Kidd would have found it impossible to cross. However a single production to cater to the comedy needs of 2,400 people, especially if it is the National Theatre’s gem One Man, Two Guvnors.

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(484 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

1984, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Mark Arends, Tim Dutton, Stephen Fewell, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Matthew Spencer, Gavin Spokes, Mandi Symonds, Hara Yannas, Richard Bremmer, Joshua Higgott.

To do justice to arguably one of the finest pieces of English Literature of the 20th Century on stage takes a team so immersed into what they are trying to achieve, that all else is secondary. To bring to life the horror that awaits Winston Smith from the spectre of Big Brother that is stamped like an impregnable tattoo all over the face of decency in 1984 takes a fantastic director, an adaptor of work who can make the simmering tension boil over again and again and two men you can believe in from start to finish to capture the spirit of a nation, of a world that has become the stuff of nightmares.

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(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

1984 Turns The Spotlight On Big Brother And Mass Surveillance In An Exciting New Staging At The Liverpool Playhouse.

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him – and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.

Headlong bring George Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future to life, as 1984 comes to the Liverpool Playhouse. This provocative new staging is created by director Robert Icke and writer Duncan Macmillan, and comes to Liverpool from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November. 

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