Tag Archives: Karen Mann

The Witches, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Sarah Ingram, Fox Jackson-Keen, Karen Mann, Sioned Saunders, Kieran Urquhart, Elexi Walker, Justin Wilman.

There have been so few writers as popular that have written for children who also made an adult crave the attention of the power of the imagination and all its beautiful trappings and escapism as that of Roald Dahl, that no matter your age or disposition, it is arguably impossible to turn your head away from the innocence on offer and the underlying tones of rebellion, adventure and childish revolt that go hand in hand across the works of the Welsh born writer.

The Witches, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Jemma Redgrave, Jaye Griffiths, Cleopatra Dickens, Rebecca Front, Abhishek Singh, Samila Kularatne, Todd Kramer, Jill Winternitz, Gretchen Egolf, Karen Mann, Aiden Cook, Tom Wilton.

The world is replete with the tales of the fear of losing one’s identity, of having it usurped, stolen, by another and seeing it misused, misappropriated and driven to the edge of a psychological breakdown; it is the story that has been the inspiration behind so many science fiction stories and the very real and perhaps just as imagined terror that led to the insanity of the McCarthy Trials in the attempt to root out so called Communists in American life.

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion. Television Review. full post

(558 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)