Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.
Testing Testing productions returns to the Unity with their mind-bending show The Judgement of Hakim. From the pen of Andrew Sherlock, he explores the idea of all of us being guilty of something, and how far we are willing to go to find it. The audience are very much a part of this show, and questions and accusations are made as to why we are here, what we have done and that nobody will get away with it; whatever ‘it’ may be.
An Irish Catholic reflects on lost love, her Chinese fiancé repatriated by force, 1940’s Liverpool, racism and betrayal.
The Curious Disappearance of Mr. Foo, which comes to The Unity Theatre on Saturday 21st June, focuses on the effect a forced repatriation of Chinese seamen from Liverpool in 1946 had on families and friends of the men, who were rounded up by the UK government over a 2-day period and immediately deported, unbeknown to their loved ones. Details of the repatriation only came to light when an official report was released 50 years later.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Maisie Young, Sarah Hale, Sarah Gallegos, Miles Braithwaite, James Markham, Phil Teles Amaro, Abigail Fitzgerald, Michael Bryan, Blair Smith.
If you had not purchased a programme and read for yourselves the biographies of the individuals on the stage, then there will be many gasps of astonishment when you discover that not all the incredible cast are training to be actors. Whilst reading that one is a Pharmacology student and then casting your eye further down the page to discover a Psychology student in amongst the names, you might be forgiven in thinking that this perhaps is just another run of the mill student show.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 11th 2011. 
Cast: Alice Bunker-Whitney, Holly Wilson-Guy.
Tales From Under the Counter is the debut performance from the women behind the Idiotinsync Company. Deeply dark, in places disturbing as the audience realises that there are blind spots that we don’t see what happens in too people struggling in business against the big corporations and yet underneath it all touching and fresh.
Alice Bunker-Whitney and Holly Wilson-Guy took on the mantle of six people in one and half hours, all in their own way struggling with the pressure of the modern world, whether through relationship breakdown, loss of a family member or the recognition that the banks could foreclose on a business that may have stood for generations.