Tag Archives: Mike Burnside

Dark Angel. Television Review. (2016).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Joanne Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Isla Mowbray, Laura Morgan, George Kent, Jonas Armstrong, Emma Fielding, Hayley Walters, John Hollingworth, Alexander McMonigle, Seamus O’Neill, John Bowler, Sam Hoare, Tom Varey, Penny Layden, George Potts, Paul Bentall, Isobel Dobson, Bill Fellows, Mike Burnside, Edward Gower, Niall Ashdown, Thomas Howes, Mark Underwood, Nigel Cooke, Jake Lawson, Jacob Anderton, Mark Holgate, Joanna Horton, Laura Jane Matthewson, Paul Brennen, Ferdy Roberts, Michael Culkin, Shaun Prendergast, Phil Cheadle.

Dark Angel. Television Review. (2016). full post

(702 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

A Raisin In The Sun, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *

Cast: Alisha Bailey, Mike Burnside, Solomon Gordon, Angela Wynter, Aron Julius, Everal A Walsh, Susan Wokoma, Ashley Zhangazha.

Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright and activist wrote A Raisin in the Sun in 1959 and was the first black woman to write a play that was performed on Broadway. The play highlights the struggles of black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago and follows the story of the Youngers; a lower middle class family who struggle to gain middle class acceptance.

A Raisin In The Sun, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(332 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

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.

Kes, Theatre Review. Liverpool Playhouse Theatre. full post

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