Tag Archives: Nick Birkinshaw

The Ale House, Grand Central Hall. Theatre Review, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Philip Olivier, Lindzi Germain, Jake Abraham, George Wilson, Nick Birkinshaw, Bernie Foley, James McMartin, Les Doherty, Kivan Dene.

It is an institution almost unlike anything else in the world, often copied, sometimes mocked but never considered sincere or as authentic as the original; the great British public house remains, despite some knocks over the years, still the fabric of everyday life and it is one that should be lauded even as the so called sophistication of palates and life changes.

The Ale House, Grand Central Hall. Theatre Review, Liverpool. full post

(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Krapp’s Last Tape, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.

It is the shadow of what can happen to us all when we obsess over what has been and allow the memory room to breathe, take shape and distort what has been. The alienation of the future self as it withers into frosted, disgraced old-age as it rages against the impetuousness of youth and the exuberance of hope that resides in middle-age, all set down for posterity as mould settles on the floor and in the mind, these are the qualities that make Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape such an outstanding and rewarding play to see at the Unity Theatre.

Krapp’s Last Tape, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

The Judgement Of Hakim, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.

Supported by Mark Lea, Hannah Plant, Jack Cooper, Warren Tutt, Joe Ball, Thoma Galashan, Jake Barrowcliffe, Michael Coumas, Bethany Sprontson, Jade Thomson, Ewan Pollitt, Jamie Barton, Sam Williams.

If you keep your wits about you, you will not be harmed. If you keep the information that you hold to yourself and don’t give into the piercing stare, the charm and easy smile of the interrogator then you will have avoided The Judgement of Hakim. Find yourself in left wing book shop, too late, he knows and you’re on a list, read right wing literature, he knows and you’re on a list, buy a certain food, on a list, in fact anything you do in life is listed and what you hold as freedom is just purely an illusion but vital to the trade of the interrogator.

The Judgement Of Hakim, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Treasured, Theatrical Review. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *****

Cast: Nicola Bentley, Nick Birkinshaw, Laura Campbell, Brian Dodd, Christopher Hollinshead, Brendan Ball, Louise Bennett, Bill McGarry, Barry Powell, Jean Silcock, Okechukwu Ugonna, Stephen Wooder, Barbara Whitehead.

One hundred years on from its fateful maiden voyage, the Titanic, the greatest ship that the world had ever known, still has the power to enthral, educate and leave people stunned and shattered by what they learn.

Treasured, Theatrical Review. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. full post

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