Tag Archives: Mark Womack

The Responder. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Freeman, MyAnna Buring, Adelayo Adedayo, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Mark Womack, Josh Finan, Emily Fairn, Philip Shaun McGuinness, Warren Brown, Ian Hart, Faye McKeever, Philip Barantini, Elizabeth Berrington, Christine Tremarco, David Loy, Rob Pomfret, Jude Cooper-Kelly, Kerrie Hayes, Dave Hart, Lois Cringle, James Nelson-Joyce, David Bradley, Karl Collins, Philip Whitchurch, Amaka Okafor, Marji Campi, Rita Tushingham, Maud Druine, Michael Starke, Jake Abraham, Paul Campion, Christian Waite, Victor McGuire, Kieran Urquhart, Sylvie Gatrill, Matthew Cottle, Dave Hill, Roy Brandon, Harry Burke, Pat Winker.

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Babylon, Television Review. Channel 4.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Brit Marling, James Nesbitt, James Robinson, Paterson Joseph, Adam Deacon, Jill Halfpenny, Mark Womack, Nicola Walker, Daniel Kaluuya, Nick Blood, Andrew Brooke, Deborah Rosan, Lee Nicholas Harris, Bertie Carvel, Lee Asquith-Coe, Navin Chowdhry, Ella Smith, Jaspal Badwell, Vic Waghorn, Paul Blackwell, Stuart Matthews, Stuart Martin, Jonny Sweet, Elena Hargreaves.

Despite Babylon opening with the type of shot that Channel Four were famous for when they first started out as a broadcaster, the kind of camera angle that would make the late Mary Whitehouse splutter and cough as if somebody had suggested she should drown her sorrows in a five day bender in Majorca, the pastiche of modern policing by Danny Boyle, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain was at least a look through a polarised lens at the way the public see today’s Police Force.

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(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Bouncers, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Broughton, Danny O’ Brien, Michael Starke, Mark Womack.

In the night time, in the sometimes unforgiving dark which is briefly punctuated by loud thumping music and neon lights enticing the weary, the foolhardy and the desperate, the bouncer is king of his domain. What he says, happens, if he tells you to sling your hook, you go, tail between your legs; if he orders you to laugh, cry and feel as though the night has been an almighty success, then you have probably seen John Godber’s acclaimed play, Bouncers at the Royal Court Theatre.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Bouncers To Step In At The Royal Court This July.

Royal Court Liverpool are producing one of English Theatre’s best known plays this summer. John Godber’s Bouncers will be filling the slot vacated by One Night In Istanbul and will run from 19th July – 17th August.

The show will be set at Liverpool’s Grafton nightclub in 1985.

John Godber is one of the most performed playwrights in the English language with plays like Teechers, Up N Under and Screaming Blue Murder regularly performed up and down the country. Bouncers is the most popular of all his shows and since it was written in 1977 there has always been a production of it playing somewhere in the world. He has written more than 50 plays and has won numerous awards for his plays including a Lawrence Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles Critics Circle Awards.

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Hope, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast:  Mark Womack, Rene Zagger, Scot Williams, Samantha Womack.

Hope should never be denied to anyone, take it away and you deny that person the only thing they may have keeping them sane. Hope also can be secretive and a hard but forgiving mistress and to base a production around this idea takes the slight touch of genius and adds it to a script by Scot Williams which is utterly absorbing, playful but also captures the very essence of writing

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Royal Court Theatre To Premiere New Scot Williams Play.

Hope is a brand new stage play written by and starring some of Liverpool’s finest film and television acting talent and it will receive its world premiere at the city’s Royal Court Theatre in March 2013.

An all-star cast has been revealed for this darkly comic psychological thriller, which sees Mark Womack, who recently starred in the B.B.C.1 drama Good Cop, making a rare return to the stage. Mark’s long list of credits include Ken Loach’s Route Irish as well as Murphy’s Law and Martina Cole’s The Runaway. Starring alongside Womack is his Hillsborough, Liverpool One and Merseybeat co-star, and the play’s writer, director and producer, Scot Williams, who makes a long awaited return to the Liverpool theatre scene after an 18-year hiatus.

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