Tag Archives: Sharon Byatt

Knee Deep In Promises, Theatre Review. Royal Court Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Lewis Bray, Debbie Brannan, Sharon Byatt.

The sacred act of the promise is such that the one put under pressure to preserve their word can act as a conduit to a breakdown, the silence overwhelming, the bond unfairly skewed in the favour of the one whose secret acts like an infection, mutating, twisting, until it becomes unrecognisable. Not all promises are the same, however, the ones that dig into the psyche, the ones that precede a climatic, even devastating event, are the one that we feel are the ones where no one in the end comes out it with their self-assurance, intact.

A Taste Of Honey, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Sharon Byatt, Sophie Coward, Chris Pybus, Jason Lamar Ricketts, James Templeton.

Adapting, or even directing, one of the modern theatre classics has always fallen somewhere between utterly compelling and deserved, and the brave choice which could be fraught with too high an expectation.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool. (2018).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Templeton, Sharon Byatt, John Schumacher, Lucy Litchfield, Nick Wymer, Ed Barr Sim, Sam Donovan, Timothy Lucas, Chloe Taylor, Daniel Taylor, Lenny Wood, Neville Cann, Fra Gunn, Faye Griffiths, Emma Webber, Hannah Rankin, Lily Davies, James Ledsham, Luke Lucas.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theatre Review. Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: James Templeton, Sharon Byatt, John Schumacher, Sophie Coward, Nick Wymer, Simon Willmont, Sam Donovan, Thomas Casson, Chloe Taylor, Daniel Taylor, Timothy Lucas, Neville Cann, Fra Gunn, Faye Griffiths, Emma Sellars, Emily Chesterton, Georgia Pye.

Something in the undergrowth stirs, a sense of magic is in the air and whilst all theatre productions, across every genre, should have this illusion and allusion readily at its disposal, there is always something incredible, a reason that is fanciful, that should be waiting for William Shakespeare’s timeless comedy and romance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.