Liverpool has more than its fair share of visiting musicians and theatre groups ready to entertain their genial hosts; sometimes there are those that are conspicuous by their absence but the prodigious home grown talent that runs through the very heart of Merseyside more than makes up for that. What is missing is the poets, the speakers of lines with no music attached in which to give the people of Liverpool their other fix, the well placed word in the right place that can topple Governments, bring the idiotic to their knees…or even just put a smile on a face and inspire the next breed of would be poets.
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Roger McGough Thrills The Playhouse Theatre With Poetic Licence.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Very few poets can hold an audience’s attention in the same vein as Roger McGough. Even when he comes home to his native Liverpool, the crowds flock to see him in a similar way that you might expect to see pop stars that would find themselves surrounded by an adoring public, desperate just for a song or two. The crowds that make up the Playhouse Theatre are more discerning than the sight of those baying for blood from the latest protégé to come off the musical television conveyor belt and for an hour and a half, Roger McGough had all of them all spellbound in poetic glee.
For Me It’s A Middle-Aged Death…(In Homage To Roger McGough)
For me it’s a middle-aged death
Not become a bore, sore
At my own time and choosing death
At my books and music, gathering weird looks
At the end of the chapter, death
When I get into my mid-sixties
And before the winter of life starts
Keep me from vengeful doctors
Plotting to keep me alive and expecting thanks
In way of tax
For the their benefit
Save me from the worry of children
Leaving children leaving children
At my ever frail thoughts
Roger McGough, As Far As I Know. Book Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Roger McGough’s reputation goes before him. A man whose poetry touches all who read, take interest and enjoy the fascinating and humour filled poems. One of the Liverpool beat poets, along with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, who has inspired generation after generation of the city’s inhabitants and bought the distinctive voice of those people to the wider world.
The Liverpool Playhouse Unveils Its 2013 Spring/Summer Season.
The 2012 season of plays and incredible drama’s may be coming to an end at the Playhouse but as ever, the hard working team behind one of the leading theatres in the city are already fully prepared for the 2013 spring/summer season.
With Roger McGough, Liverpool’s leading poet, on hand to talk about the adaptation of the Moliere classic The Misanthrope, which will have its world premiere in Liverpool before a U.K. tour, the usual unveiling of the new season was given an air of the sublime and inspirational, something that the Playhouse always manages to achieve in its many varied productions.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show Live. Theatre Review, Liverpool Empire Theatre.
Originally published by L. S Media. June 19th 2012
L.S. Media Rating *****
Cast: Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davy, Stephen Moore, Toby Longworth, Andrew Secombe, Philip Pope, Samantha Beart, Roger McGough.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so good that they returned to the format that broke all conventions and established rules of sci-fi comedy on the radio and turned into a live radio show.