Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In the depths of a cello’s heart lives a sound that is arguably unique across the members of the string musical family. The double bass might be stout, resolute, never wavering in its texture, the violin may be more beautiful, the sound of the siren as she entices sailors to fall at her feet as the waves crash into rocks and the heart breaks with the sound of handsome, ethereal taste.
Occasionally in life you may find yourself in conversation with a person who leaves you feeling so utterly at peace with yourself that you cannot but help relax, intrigued with what they have to say, and finding that despite your phone doing its upmost to scupper the connection made between two human beings, that the interviewee is calm, collected and kind enough to understand that these things happen, that at the end of the day the Cavalier approach is quite often the best policy to adopt.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Brandon McCaffery, Alice Merivale, Emma Vaudrey, John Schumacher.
It is the sins of the past that we inherit, perhaps shame gets sprinkled into the D.N.A., a dash of wickedness and a whole load of emotional turmoil, if we are fortunate it skips us, loses its power with each generation, and eventually the gene which causes us to contemplate such vile acts and misdeeds is eradicated.
The deleted scenes
hidden away, far
in the recess
of the compartment marked
as pain, of abuse, of the neglectful reel
of shame, red-faced and embarrassment
caused, we skip over those moments
and turn our heads when
the obituary notice
at the end of the night of Oscar
winning performances
is revealed; the deleted scenes
erased, erased
erased,
but never on every machine
that recorded the moment…
somewhere your deleted scene
is still being viewed.
Ian D. Hall 2018
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
No matter how inflamed the candle of desire rises, it cannot compete in strength to the virtue and the pull of the Lighthouse. The candle though remains undaunted by the size of the man-made structure at the edge of the cliffs and often nestled in amongst the crags and rocks, for what would anyone rather do when it comes to kissing a love tenderly for the first time, within the half glow of the candle, the flickering flame throwing of silhouettes that dance in time to the soul’s own beating heart, or be struck by the full glare of light as it warns of danger in icy, unforgiving seas.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There will always be those that find ways to say nothing whilst all the time profiting from someone else’s drive, for in their habit lays not strength, but a kind of washed-out serving, a weakness of expression that implies growth but in actual fact is nothing more than the withering spectacle of a cactus which once supported a beautiful flower, but now creeps towards mulch as it finds no gardener to help it bloom.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Calvin Dean, David Mynne, Rachel Leonard, Jenny Beare.
Musician: Ben Sutcliffe, Zaid Al-Rikabi.
Falling in love is quite possibly the most beautiful, and most heart-breaking emotion, a human being can live through and endure, for some it happens easily, for others it is a long process which can only come about by first finding themselves, discovering their own sense of true-worth, whichever way it happens, love is, in the words of Liverpool’s Ian McNabb, a wonderful colour.
I saw you,
through the haze,
the other night
whilst you were dressed in tight fitting jeans
and with the selected primrose
jumper that you always wore
when believing yourself
to be an agent provocateur,
your hand on his leg, the soft stroke
of indiscretion;
I watched without care,
for a brief moment,
till I knew the secret
of your smile,
and then forgot you,
as the haze grew clearer.
Ian D. Hall 2018.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Matthew Atkins, Ceri-Lyn Cissone, Siobhan Gerrard, Indigo Griffiths, Jason Ryall, Lucinda Turner.
In a past literary history that is dominated by men, many women stand above them for the sheer depth of human experience, the joy of wit, the penetration to the bones of fear and exploration of the subject; and whilst the names of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Tolstoy stand at the gates of greatness, it is too the scribes of women such as Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie and Jane Austen that we should acknowledge perhaps as the greater skilled writers and finer observers of the human condition.
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.