Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Eilidh Loan, Ben Castle-Gibb, Michael Moreland, Thierry Mabonga, Natali McCleary, Greg Powrie, Sarah MacGillivray.
The unrelenting fascination with arguably two of 19th Century’s literature finest, and most disturbing of creations, Victor Frankenstein and the Monster is one that perhaps asks the most salient, complex and frightening questions to nag at the mind and heart of all who have read Mary Shelley’s intense novel.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Hannah Aspinall, Ruby Bains, Emily Barker, Rebekah Brown, Sami Bueid, Charlotte Clarke, Jordan Connerty, Charlotte Dawson, Charlie Diable, John Dixon, Joseph Edwards, Jade Fazakerley, Grace Fordham-Bibby, Amber Higgins, Jake Holmes, Poppy Hughes, Chloe Hughes, Morgan Hughes, Connor Kelly, Luke Logan, Jenny Lowe, Molly Madigan, Grace Emily Maud, Niamh McCarthy, Callum McCourt, Jonathan McGuirk, Lewis McVey, Michael Meechan, Jack Molloy, Michael Moran, Aiden Morgan, Charlie Noponen, Yasmin Ormesher-Lunt, Jamie Pye, Phil Rayner, Matthew Roberts, Harry Sargent, Kaila Sharples, Sakura Singh-Corke, Marth Small, Natalie Vaughan, Matthew Woodhouse.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Emily Stott, Ragevan Vasan, Rachael Merry.
The search for mutual affection is a dance to which there is no instructional video, the discovery of a soul mate is that waltz or freestyle swaying pirouette through polite society and the odd incursion into the realm of misunderstanding, is one that leaves you breathless and at times declaring a submission, the foxtrot of love ignoring all the rules you may have learned.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Audrey Brisson, Sophie Crawford, Faoileann Cunningham, Rachel Dawson, Oliver Grant, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Chris Jared, Charley Magalit, Caolan McCarthy, Samuel Morgan-Grahame, Emma Jane Morton, Kate Robson-Stuart, Josh Sneesby, Jez Unwin, Johnson Willis.
To live in a world which is delightful is perhaps everybody’s secret dream, one where kindness truly is its own reward and not a payback from the mealy mouthed who see it as recompense for their actions and who take advantage of the compassionate and gentle for their own amusement.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The world needs satire more than ever. We have come to a crossroads in which the act of satire is decried by many as cruel, in which it has no place in a more caring society; and yet parody, wit and caricature have a place when it comes to expertly showing that the world, its political and spiritual leaders and every single one of us who inhabit this world have come to a point where we deserve to be sent-up.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Killian Donnelly, Nic Greenshields, Martin Ball, Katie Hall, Tegan Bannister, Bronwen Hanson, Harry Apps, Brian James Leys, Jordan Simon Pollard, Mary-Jane Caldwell Lee Ormsby, Jamie Birkett, Emma Warren, Jessie Hart, Megan Gardiner, Ruby Lyon, Helen Aylott Teleri Hughes, Eva Mairead Connor, Francesca Lidguard, Sadie Horwich, Sophie-Louise Dann, Ava Hope Smith, Lydia Jane Prosser, Eilish Mair Williams, Joseph Sheppard, Noah Walton, Dexter Barry, Leo Miles, Michael Burgen, Will Richardson, Aaron Pryce-Lewis, Shane O’ Riordan, Zac Hamilton, Danny Colligan, Ruben Van Keer, Keoni Blockx, Corrine Priest, Janne Snellen, Joseph Anthony, Nicholas Carter, Nicholas Corrie.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kyle Rowe, Darren Kuppan.
Men get accused of not talking to one another, about their fears, about their lives, on a daily basis; however, sometimes the words don’t come easily, the possibility of rejection of their thoughts, even by women, can be enough for many men to skirt the issue completely, they just keep saying they are fine, and whilst the dialogue dice is loaded by those who say this is a symbol of toxic masculinity, it could also be a indication of absolute vulnerability.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Molly Grace Cutler, Alice McKenna, Sarah Workman, Lisa Wright, Jack Alexander, Tom Connor, Tom Dunlea, Guy Freeman, Jonathan Markwood, Mark Newnham.
A throwaway line caught in the ether, a story that deep down nobody seems to remember and yet it did happen and it is one that rivals any of the stories held up to the legend of Liverpool’s music scene, and one so brilliantly captured and focused upon by playwright Ian Salmon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Mandy Redvers-Rowe, Rachael Townsend.
Music: Craig Gamble.
Writing is often viewed as glamourous, seductive, an enticing call to a place which calls for awards and the possibility of being able to change people’s minds with a series of taps on a keyboard or a deliberated word which strikes the right note. The art of writing the meaningful prose has brought down governments, brought conflict and peace to lands and made a lover’s heart soar; and yet there are those who believe it is the easiest occupation in the world, for they don’t see the agony, the self-doubt, the moments where the words don’t arise and the long labouring battle that arrives unseen as writer’s block sinks the author of sentences into the abyss.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Lewis Bray, Debbie Brannan, Sharon Byatt.
The sacred act of the promise is such that the one put under pressure to preserve their word can act as a conduit to a breakdown, the silence overwhelming, the bond unfairly skewed in the favour of the one whose secret acts like an infection, mutating, twisting, until it becomes unrecognisable. Not all promises are the same, however, the ones that dig into the psyche, the ones that precede a climatic, even devastating event, are the one that we feel are the ones where no one in the end comes out it with their self-assurance, intact.