Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Paul Thirkell, Finlay Bain, Lauren Jane Sheerman.
When the end of the world comes, you really do have to is start Living a Little, for who knows just what awaits you as the moments tick down, as the warning signs of imminent death come crashing too close to home and the final desperate leap of hope disappears off into the sunset. To do is surely the only sane thing to do in a world that has lost all reason.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Kasia Lech.
The problem with revolutions is that in the chance that they succeed, they will inevitably begin the process of being just a ravenous monster as the regime they swept away in bullets, bombs and prayers. Revolution of any type is fraught with the uncertainty of bread today, jam tomorrow, the mouldy crust the day after that, revolution is weighed down with expectation that cannot be fulfilled but it is nevertheless a state of political ultimatum that should never be ignored.
Please don’t park on a drop down,
the unassuming slight
plunge in the pavement
at the end of roads,
the pedestrian walk way,
or even pram pushing mother
or wheelchair user,
find it quite difficult
to fall down an eight inch crevice
without either tipping over,
babies nose sniffing the asphalt
and stones cutting small scares
drawing blood on fresh skin,
or the anxious wheelchair user,
not having the energy to make sure
they don’t fall flat on their face
for the amusement of others,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Charlotte Gallagher.
English Literature is awash with the heaving bosom of the heroine being swept off her feet by the man she thought was broken, dangerous, a heart ruled by anarchistic ritual and yet you won’t find that many books of the romantic nature inside Britain’s book shops, not unless you delve deeply into the classic section and realise that all those writers of a by-gone age knew something that that modern audiences, so full of sophistication and drowning in scepticism, have forgotten; that sex and romance sells like almost nothing else available to read.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Yuuya Ishizone.
The secrets that come out in the dark, when you are lost in the remoteness of the both the wilderness and the mind, those are the most comfortably haunting secrets to be revealed, they are the ones that others cannot walk away from so easily or be refreshed by the day time sun; the finest and most damning secrets are always best revealed when lost.
For a short sweet while,
I was the fantasy in someone’s
romantic fiction,
the heaving bosom
on the well licked
page, thumbed
back and forth,
back and forth,
till she was sated
and I was forgotten, used
up and left hanging
in the middle of page seventeen…
for a while I was the hero
with wild hair, the broken man tamed,
the savage beast ridden and held;
all is a dream on this score,
after all, it was someone else’s
fiction.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Canada always seems to hold an affinity with most people round the world, possibly because of its laid back approach to life, the sincerity and friendliness of its people and the fact that it is so vast, arguably so much more natural, less spoilt by human progress; it is a terrain built on the rugged and intrepid, the explorer and the indomitable, it is a country that produces absolute stirring stories.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Tayo Aluko.
It can take a single moment to make a person’s life seem insignificant, to put down all their achievements with a dismissive sign of arrogance, of misplaced racial or gender inequality or presumed superiority, it can take that moment to possibly change that person’s life forever. Sometimes it can be though for the good as they strive on in their goal to become the better person, the one with ideals, honour and purpose in the community. Sometimes one just wishes to be an ordinary man, sometimes you become exceptional as Just an Ordinary Lawyer.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Ed Macarthur, Tom Black, Nina Shenkman, Charlotte Merriam.
Civilisation is dead, it has been washed away in a huge flood and humanity is on the verge of extinction; it is not all bad though, there are still four human beings left alive in a pedalo, four human beings from very different social backgrounds, four separate personalities and outlooks. Let’s face it the future, unless they can come to some sort of compromise as they float on the high seas, unless they can agree on the prospect of their lives, then humanity is as washed up as seaweed on an icy shoreline.
I smile as I watch
on stage
a master grin
beguilingly
for the briefest of serene moments,
the Edinburgh rain bounce
on the age old cobbles
in New Town,
Georgian splendour,
Regency supremacy,
and after the show,
we talk cricket for a while,
for that is the only civilised
approach, the only thing to do,
when the covers are on the field of play
and the actor’s
innings
declared over
for the night.
Inspired by the actor Tayo Aluko