Tag Archives: Playhouse Theatre

Family Fun As Dragons, Frogs, Lizards And Dogs Take Over The Playhouse This spring!

A flurry of creatures will descend on Liverpool this spring as family productions for a range of ages – including lively tales for little ones and teen novels turned into exciting stage adaptations – take centre stage at the Playhouse.

Kicking off a series of family shows, Oi Frog and Friendsvisits the Playhouse from 26th-29th February. Adapted from Kes Gray and Jim Field’s best-selling pictures books, audiences will join frog, dog, cat and a host of other friends for a live adventure packed full of songs, puppetry and fun.

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(327 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

2018 Applications Now Open For Award-Winning Young Everyman Playhouse Programme.

As U.K. Theatre celebrated #InspiringFutureTheatreDay on Wednesday 11th July, young theatre-makers can now apply to be part of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) Programme for 2018.

The six-strand programme is designed to develop and nurture young theatre makers of the future, through a hands-on course giving YEP members real-life experience of working in regional theatre.

With the guidance of experienced theatre staff aspiring actors, directors, technicians, producers, writers and marketers are given the opportunity to learn new skills, working on real-time productions throughout the course.

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(417 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Sting Performs At The Maritime Museum As The Last Ship Comes To Liverpool.

From where Sting sat on his chair on the top floor of the Maritime Museum he could have looked out and witnessed a dock that was now home to small boat owners and had all the furnishings of renewal, a product of change, of one that was required to save an important link to the city of Liverpool’s past.

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(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Spotted! Mysterious Hound Seen Wandering Around Williamson Square.

Members of staff at the Playhouse claim to have seen a huge beast wandering through the corridors of the theatre and across Williamson Square.

Some even suggest the beast is linked to the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville.

Playhouse bosses have reassured staff and the public by hiring a top private detective team to investigate the mystery.

 

Liverpool residents have been asked to remain calm, but are warned to be on the lookout for a hideous fanged beast near the Playhouse.

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(547 words, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

Mark Thomas: Trespass. Theatre Review, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The evening might not, in spirit, have been as dramatic as the last time Mark Thomas performed at the Liverpool Playhouse, nothing as spontaneous as a fire alarm and a public meeting by the old bandstand on Williamson Square to get the comedy juices flowing. Yet the air of supreme command of the English language, of taking an audience down the path of playful anarchy is in itself one that catches the night as if being hunted down and paraded through the streets of the cities of the U.K. for its absurd notions that we have allowed our green and pleasant land to become a haven for business to tell us where we can and cannot walk.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Narvick, Theatre Review. Studio, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Joe Shipman, Nina Yndis, Lucas Smith.

Musicians: Lizzie Nunnery, Martin Heslop, Vidar Norheim.

In many ways the war in Norway has been pretty much forgotten by many in the U.K. and beyond. The thought these days seems to centre on the fields of France, the systematic destruction of Eastern Europe and the polarised viewpoints of the war in the Far East. Yet Norway and especially for her citizens, the uneasy liaisons that lay between opposing Nazi rule and the fraternisation that reigned in the hearts of her young women starved of male attention and the deaths of so many her young men has somehow been cleansed, sanitised and thrown into the same realms of forgetfulness as those faced by the Channel Islands.

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

Liverpool Sound And Vision: The Sunday Postscript, An Interview With Lizzie Nunnery.

The Everyman Theatre on Hope Street is home to many ideas, many moments of inspiration and suggestions that in its short period of time since its re-emergence from the ground upwards, it has become one of Liverpool’s brightest stars. It is fitting then to meet one of the city’s finest artists, who is fluent in poetry, music and scriptwriting in equal and abundant measure, inside the halls that have the feel of the hallowed seeping out of them.

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(1991 words, estimated 7:58 mins reading time)

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Subusiso Mamba, Tonderai Munyevu.

How far would you go to survive in a regime that treats you worse than a cockroach; that demands total obedience of your every waking hour and who can control every moment you make, only reluctantly allowing you to live your life as a free member of society once they have humiliated you enough. The mark of oppression stamped across a nation and deeply into the faces of those who are its citizens.

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(467 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Catch 22, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *

Cast: Daniel Ainsworth, Philip Arditti, Geoff Arnold, Victoria Bewick, Simon Darwen, Michael Hodgson, Liz Kettle, Christopher Price, David Webber.

Joseph Heller adapted his novel Catch 22 for the stage in 1971 and today the script is more or less unchanged. As it is difficult to get the rights to adapt the script, Northern Stage’s director Rachel Chavkin has done what other companies have shied away from, and has put her own mark on this classic war tale.

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(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Under Milk Wood, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Ifan Huw Dafydd, Hedydd Dylan, Richard Elfyn, Sara Harris-Davies, Sophie Melville, Steven Meo, Caryl Morgan, Simon Nehan, Kai Owen, Christian Patterson, Owen Teale.

Listen…the applause at the end of the performance says it all. Dylan Thomas’ seminal classic Under Milk Wood has the power to catch the attention of anybody willing to open their ears and truly pay attention for a couple of hours.

Under Milk Wood, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)