Tag Archives: Natalie Simpson

Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Neil Dudgeon, Nick Hendrix, Fiona Dolman, Annette Badland, Keith Allen, Lizzy McInnerny, Colin Murtagh, Manoj Anand, Raj Awasti, Nimmy March, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Peter De Jersey, Michael Nardone, Sirine Saba, Natalie Simpson, John Thompson, Harriet Thorpe.

A heart attack is a life changing moment, a point of reckoning, a path that splits in two, and depending on how you recover, can lead to decisions being made that have ramifications down the line, and which, like murder, can lead to others suffering for your spur of the moment actions.

Les Misérables. Television Review. (2019).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Dominic West, Adeel Akhtar, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, Olivia Coleman, David Bradley, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, Emma Fielding, Enzo Cilenti, Donald Sumpter, Andre Pasquasy, Turlough Convery, Archie Madekwe, Josh O’Connor, Joseph Quinn,  Natalie Simpson, Angela Wynter, Reece Yates, Derek Jacobi, Jerome Flynn, Darren Kent, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Josef Altin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan David, Ron Cook, Archie Madekwe, Lorcan Cranitch, Hayley Carmichael.

Cymbeline, Theatre Review. R.S.C., Stratford Upon Avon.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gillian Bevan, Bethan Cullinane, Oliver Johnstone, Hiran Abeysekera, James Clyde, James Cooney, Natalie Simpson, Temi Wilkey, Graham Turner, Kelly Williams, Marcus Griffiths, Byron Mondahl, Doreene Blackstock, Eke Chukwu, Romayne Andrews, Marieme Diouf, Jenny Fennessy, Kevin N Goldberg, Theo Ogundipe

During the Royal Shakespeare Company’s quest to perform all 38 of the great Bard’s plays over the coming years, audiences get to glimpse gems of his repertoire that are less often performed. This production of Cymbeline showcases one of Shakespeare’s later plays, and the play shows a maturity and complexity that is a joy to behold.

Hamlet, Theatre Review. R.S.C., Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Paapa Essiedu, Clarence Smith, Cyril Nri, Natalie Simpson, Hiran Abeysekera, Doreene Blackstock, Eke Chukwu, James Cooney, Bethan Cullinane, Kevin N. Golding, Marcus Griffiths, Marieme Diouf, Romayne Andrews, Byron Mondahl, Tanya Moodie, Theo Ogundipe, Ewart James Walters, Temi Wilkey.

The king is dead, a usurper and a murderer sits on the throne and the man who would be king sits and procrastinates to the point of lethargy and inaction; hardly the calling card for one of the greatest plays in the English language to be treated, the single red rose that was visible at the local church in front of Shakespeare’s stone perhaps wilting under the pressure of the enormous task undertaken by the R.S.C. as Hamlet once more roared into Stratford-Upon-Avon.