Tag Archives: Liverpool playhouse theatre

Kes, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 23rd 2009.

Cast: Mike Burnside, Stefan Butler, Daniel Casey, David Crellin, Katherine Dowblyton, Oliver Farnworth, Dominic Gately, Peter McGovern, Oliver Watton.

The film is considered to be a cinematic classic, gritty in its honesty; heartbreaking and heart warming at the same time. One of the true greats and one of Ken Loach’s finest moments. It would therefore be near on impossible for anybody to transfer it to the stage, but in the writer Lawrence Till, all the sadness, tinges of humour and the bleak future is stripped bare and in its place is nothing short of theatrical genius.

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(345 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Morecambe, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

Originally published by L.S. Media. March 8th 2010.

Cast: Bob Goulding.

It takes a brave actor to take on the mantle of one of Britain’s best loved comedians on stage. It takes a man with nerves of steel to do the whole show on his own for a mind boggling 80 odd minutes and who won’t be sure of how the audience will react to the telling of his life until the final curtain.

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(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Oh What A Lovely War, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

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Originally published by L.S. Media. April 1st 2010.

Cast: Joanna Croll, Victoria Elliott, Helen Embleton, Karen Fisher-Pollard, Robert Hands, Gary Kithing, Tarek Merchant, Sam O’Mahony-Adams, Thomas Padden, Christopher Price, Theone Rashleigh, Jon Trenchard.

As we near the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, it is apt that one of cinemas and theatres greatest satires is brought back to the public’s attention. Oh what a lovely War is one of those plays that demands attention and the respect for all those who take part in such a sensitive subject.

Oh What A Lovely War, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

The Woman In Black, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 3rd 2010.

Cast: Robert Demeger, Peter Bramhill.

The Playhouse has put on some very fine pieces of theatre so far this year and with some truly remarkable performances including Bob Golding’s superb interpretation of national treasure Eric Morecambe and the team behind the season’s opener “Ghost Stories”. To finish the season in a similar fashion they have commissioned the wonderful and spine tingling The Woman in Black.

The Woman In Black, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. full post

(376 words, 1 image, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Tartuffe, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre.

Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2011.

Cast:  Hiran Abeysekera, Joseph Alessi, Eithne Browne, Simon Coates, Annabelle Dowler, Ilan Goodman, Rebecca Lacey, Emily Pithon, Alan Stocks, Colin Tierney.

There is nothing like welcoming an old friend back into your life and in the modern stand out poetry of Roger McGough and the timeless humour of Moliere, the Liverpool Playhouse opened its new season to a play that was first viewed by local audiences as the city celebrated being the Capital of Culture in 2008.

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(422 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

The Norman Conquests, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 7th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Oliver Birch, Philip Cumbus, Tom Davey, Laura Howard, Emily Pithon, Sarah Tansey.

Liverpool audiences have had to wait for quite a while for an Alan Ayckbourn play to come to the city and then like the proverbial bus, three come along at once.

The special and almost unique thing with The Norman Conquests is that it is not just one show but three specially crafted, incredibly well directed and lovingly bought to life plays that demand more attention for their ample moments of generous laughter that Alan Ayckbourn insists must be within all his plays, even when the subject matter is dour, there is always room for laughter.

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(485 words, 1 image, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)