Category Archives: Theatre

I Know All The Secrets In My World, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Samuel Nicholas, Solomon Israel, Michelle Asante.

By talking we are able to express our emotions, our fears, our doubts and concerns with greater clarity than we ever can by the silence that surrounds us. At times though grief is so overpowering that the simple things like laughter, joy and love can only be shown by the quiet and hushed up screams. The internal rage and sorrow of loss can only ever be expressed by non verbal communication and it affects us more than we realise.

I Know All The Secrets In My World, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

More Light, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Billy Czajkowska, Isobel Balchin, Abigail McKenzie, Nuala Maguire, Alice Corrigan, Ian Cook.

Bryony Lavery’s play More Light tells the story of the recently deceased Chinese Emperor who, in order to keep the location of his tomb a secret had not only himself encased within the tomb but his entire army of craftsmen, builders and his finest courtiers. Also immured are his five young infertile wives. These women have had the best food and lived secure and luxurious lives, but now they are faced with making the most horrendous decisions in order to stay alive. Human behaviour pushed to the very limits are explored in this dramatic hour long performance directed and performed by YEP (Young Everyman Playhouse.)

More Light, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre Studio, Liverpool. full post

(324 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

The Massive Tragedy Of Madame Bovary!, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Emma Fielding, John Nicholson, Javier Marzan, Jonathan Holmes.

There will always be the book, the classic pieces of literature that everybody has heard of and to whom as a single person people will believe they know what it is about down to hearsay and speculated knowledge; it won’t have been read but it will be understood by reputation alone. It may be understood for what it is known for but it won’t be comprehended or valued until it is actually read first hand and then it fits into place that what you know, is nothing like what you know.

The Massive Tragedy Of Madame Bovary!, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * * *

Cast: Jack Hobbs aka Hobbit, Ryan Harston aka LoGisTics, Elisha Howe aka Elektric, Mohsen Nouri.

What do you get when you get a beat-boxer, poet, dancer and puppeteer in the same room? Certainly nothing that has been seen before as, 20 Stories High and Theatre-Rites collaborate to produce a spectacular show.

The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(454 words, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

I Am Not Myself These Days, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tom Stuart.

Everybody wears a mask, the camouflage of fitting in when really all that is ever desired comes in the form of standing out and having fun, even if it comes with a cost. In Tom Stuart’s dynamic play, based upon Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s book, I Am Not Myself These Days the mask of illusion is only worn to be loved and it is love of all excessive things that carries the play at the Playhouse Studio into a realm of perfectly captured hedonism and glittering prowess.

I Am Not Myself These Days, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre Studio, Liverpool. full post

(445 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Wendy And Peter Pan, Theatre Review. Stratford Upon Avon.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Rhys Rusbatch, Mariah Gale, James Corrigan, Darrell D’Silva, Paul Kemp, Charlotte Mills, Douggie McKeekin, Simon Carroll-Jones, Cavan Clarke, Sam Clemmett, Adam Gillen, Susan Hingley, Jack Horner, Rebecca Johnson, Arthur Kyeyune, David Langham, Jordan Metcalfe, Mimi Ndiweni, Dodger Philips, Laura Prior, Patrick Toomey, Lawrence Walker, Harry Waller, Jay Webb, Dan Wheeler.

This the second time out for Jonathan Munby’s Wendy and Peter Pan which has just finished its season and remains indicative of the R.S.C.’s continued policy of broadening its appeal without compromising quality. The play is neither musical nor pantomime and yet it incorporates the best of both formats and discards arguably the more irritating features that come with the story.

Wendy And Peter Pan, Theatre Review. Stratford Upon Avon. full post

(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Roy Brandon, Eithne Browne, Carl Chase, Suzanne Collins, Paul Duckworth, Adam Keast, Andrew Schofield, Francis Tucker.

It is undoubtedly one of the finest productions to come out of Merseyside in the last ten years, a difficult birth it may have been, a show that found itself with an audience but being put on due to commitments and other factors somehow making the play seem an impossibility and yet a decade on, over 200,000 members of the public later, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels is a show of insurmountable honest and terrifically funny appeal; so much so that it is only right and proper for it to come back to the Royal Court Theatre and give the jolt of marvellous humour needed after a January of gloom and false starts.

Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Lord Of The Flies, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Luke Ward Wilkinson, Anthony Roberts, Freddie Watkins, Keenan Munn-Francis, Thiago Pigatto, Fellipe Pigatto, Dylan Llewellyn, Michael Ajao, Yossi Goodlink, Matthew Castle, Guy Abrahams, Benedict Barker.

Lord Of The Flies, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Second Soprano, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Martha Shrimpton, Olivia Hirst.

As you enter Unity One, there is nothing much on stage to give any hint as to what may lie ahead. A coat stand, table, two chairs and a piano – what does stand out however, is the very modern looking microphone placed stage right that is used very cleverly by our duo to begin the piece by creating sound effects. With the use of a loop station they fill the space with noises of the wind and different animal voices that create the effects of a farm.

Second Soprano, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(412 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Opbergdoos, Theatre Review. Lantern Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Richard Weston.

Amongst the scattered cardboard boxes, half empty spirit bottles and dodgy looking white powder dusted liberally on a side table, is Atticus, sat upon a chair looking slightly the worse for wear in his stained white vest, dirty bare feet and marked jeans. A young man looking to escape from the outside world and who locks himself up in a room where he is surrounded by his memories, all stored around him neatly in the cardboard boxes.

Opbergdoos, Theatre Review. Lantern Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(329 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)