In 2016 Everyman & Playhouse will stage a new adaptation of Madame Bovary with Peepolykus at the Everyman, while at the Playhouse there will be a major revival of Frank McGuinness’ Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme. The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! is directed by Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz in a co-production with Bristol Old Vic, Southampton Nuffield and Royal & Derngate, Northampton. Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme is co-produced with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and Headlong and is directed by Jeremy Herrin.
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Nick Frost Melts Liverpool’s Hearts At Waterstones.
Nick Frost at Waterstones in Liverpool. October 2015. Photgraph by Ian D. Hall.
Nick Frost’s memoirs are as colourful as the man is exuberant and lively. A man to whom the world of acting has taken a dramatic shine to since he first appeared on television and to whom so much has happened on screen as it has away from it.
A New Exhibition At The Unity Theatre Explores Nature’s Way.
The Unity Theatre are staging an exhibition, titled Nature’s Way, of striking and sometimes abstract nature-based photographs and paintings by three Liverpool artists from the 9th October – 31st October.
The exhibition features photographs of Colin Serjent and Jane Groves, taken in Liverpool and Merseyside, while Carlee Graham will be showing large nature-based abstract paintings.
“I particularly like taking my photographs in the Spring and Summer, using azure coloured skies to help emphasise the colour patterns and textures in my pictures,” said Serjent, who has shown his work in the U.S.A., Germany and various parts of England.
Liverpool Sound And Vision: Third Anniversary Virtual Live C.D.
If New York is the city that never sleeps then Liverpool is the city that never stops singing. To anyone who makes their way to any of the sheer multitude of venues, be it the dominant on the skyline such as the Echo Arena and first opened in full to the public and many a big band and big noise experience in the year that Liverpool was rightly emblazoned with the moniker of Capital of Culture throughout every event, to the small but significant and certainly homely such as Studio 2, Zanzibar and Leaf, to anyone making their way to Liverpool, not only is there a great set of venues to choose from but the music, home grown and much admired, steeped in history and more arguably more satisfying than anywhere in such close concentration in the country, is to be admired.
L.A. Songwriter Alexx Calise To Release New Album With Help From Her Fans.
L.A. based musician and songwriter Alexx Calise, the woman behind such musically enlightening and dramatic solo albums such as In Avanti and Morning Pill and one half of the tremendous team that put together the sensational No Vampires In Gilroy, has always been an independent and forthright woman. For the past ten years she has managed to pursue the craft and technique of writing songs that not only hit home with the force of an arrow splitting apart a bull’s eye but also get under the skin of how music in the West Coast can capture the soul with beautiful intensity.
Lovehistory Brings Murder To St. George’s Hall This November.
Lovehistory, producers of the popular ’Catacombs of Liverpool’s Dark History’ series, are set to delve deeper into Liverpool’s history to bring its murderous past to a stage setting for the very first time.
In collaboration with Bill Elms, St George’s Hall’s famous Concert Room will host an evening of murder, mayhem and mystery in November, re-enacting four of Liverpool’s most notorious historic murders. A team of versatile actors in period costume, along with effective lighting, sound effects and projection to transport audiences to the gruesome setting of the past.
The Unity Theatre’s Graeme Phillips To Retire This Month After 33 Years At The Helm.
Graeme Phillips, Unity Theatre’s Artistic Director will retire this month after 33 years at the acclaimed Hope Place venue. A seasoned well-respected member of Liverpool’s artistic community, director, designer and mentor to many local, regional and national theatre companies, he will step aside at the end of July.
Live Aid, 25 years Anniversary, A Reflection.
Originally published by L.S. Media On Friday 16th July 2010.
This last week saw the 25th anniversary of the world’s first global concert, a celebration of all things music which was born out of, what was then called Ethiopia’s modern day biblical famine. This event was a concerted effort to bring more attention to the country’s plight and to help right a terrible wrong.
I won’t go into the politics of the time, it takes a person more clever and more learned than I to ever attempt to explain how the cradle of humanity had come to the point of almost complete and utter devastation and destruction, a country seemingly so far away that it barely touched the consciousness of the British Public.
F.A. Cup Final 2015: Arsenal V Aston Villa, Match Report.
The atmosphere at Wembley for the 134th F.A Cup Final should be looked upon as amazing. Yet the contrast in the two teams, Aston Villa and Arsenal on the sunny warm Saturday evening on the 30th May 2015 is perhaps more tangible and brutal than in recent memory. The Cup hasn’t been fought over in gladiatorial style between the Capital and arguably the second city of England since 2000 and the difference between the two cities in terms of football glory has never been more stark.
The Slow Death Of Self Expression.
It is a standing joke in the house that when I first moved to Merseyside, I asked my wife if there was any theatre that I could attend in the city of Liverpool. My reason for asking was I wanted to get back to a point in life where the arts were important to me. It had been too long since I had set foot into a theatre setting and be able to watch with interest a play, good, exceptional or even indifferent, it mattered not, I just wanted to see art performed. Of course my wife fell about on the floor laughing at the idiocy of a man deprived of both the local knowledge of the city he had moved to, but also feeling great sympathy, albeit through muffled laughter, that someone had been destitute of art for so long.