Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: David Holmes, Kieran O’Rouke.
Your enemies are honest, for you know they hate you and wish to destroy your life bit by bit, your friends on the other hand can be a little more circumspect, a little less reliable for in them can live the seething, beating heart of jealousy and in one swift movement, a single action of a non returned hand can reveal their action against you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It’s more than likely anyone coming across the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre whilst at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival will have never had so much fun in their entire lives with something that covers up the least attractive aspect of a person’s appearance, their feet. For socks, whether dirty, clean, innocuous, outlandish or all together mystifying, socks are great things, especially when they come in pairs and deliver unbelievably great satire and beautifully delivered cringe worthy puns.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There are comedians who make you laugh, those wise masters who can make you think and those coveted people who you can find empathy and warmth within. To find someone who can control all three mystifying forces of human nature is to behold someone you can believe in and share life and a shred of existence with.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Liam Murphy, Gerard McLaughlin
The pick-up, the slow manoeuvring of time and physical introduction as two sets of eyes meet is a story the world over, sometimes though the need for something beyond the carefree social abandon takes the requirements of dating out of the hands of the participants and into the realm of the arena. Not so much making love on the first date but the greeting of a Spanish crowd to their hero decked in national regalia and the snorting, steam driven worship of a single moment in which The Fuck is all but consuming.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Nic Hardman, Mary Jayne, James Bray.
It has perhaps arguably long been a topic of conversation between people who find the subject of other people’s love lives and sexual experiences a thrilling and endless game to while away the time, on just how can a person fancy or fall in love with a two people from the opposite genders; the sniggering and the elbow nudging a distraction and deflection to the point which is that human beings are animals and attraction is not based solely on which side of the cup you like to drink out of at all times. For some it even comes down to a choice between friends and which one they may have to say Bye to when the fall out of choice rears its ugly head.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Rachel McKweon, James Wray, Gareth Cobham, Richard Carlin.
Break ups are never easy, they don’t actually even just entail the two people going through the process, family aside, it effects a wide circle of friends and close personal attachments to the point where some people breaking up demand that you take sides in a fit of ownership. Whilst others feel as though they have no choice but to make a complete break of the whole situation; to the point where starting with nothing is preferable to looks of disappointment and heartbreak.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Paul Pope, Andie Egan Jr., David Allen.
The spirit and ethos Grin Theatre’s much talked about Queertet production of four short plays can be seen in this year’s opening production; that of John Maines’ Pulse. The spirit that lives in the Liverpool LGBT community, the feeling of acceptance and recognition is highlighted by the fun and the outrageous, the touch of the mystery and the overall entertaining that plays such as Pulse provide.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Abby Melia, Bradley Thompson, Bryony Doyle, Daniel Sebuyange, Dorcas Sebuyange, Emma Burns, Kane Roberts, Lina Sebuyange, Owen Jones, Raven Maguire, Sam Ikpeh, ScottLewis, Toin Otubsin, Paislie Reid.
Denigrate a section of society enough, make them pay for imagined crimes of a group of individuals with sweeping undeserved statements and it is no wonder that they will perhaps meet all your expectations. When that section of society is the young, the next generation of people to whom the world becomes a narrow and twisted version of doomed failure then it is no surprise that sometimes they act the way the papers expect and the Government demands. The problem with demonising the young is they have the teeth to bite back, they have the surprise and good will deeply engrained in them to show just exactly who the Animals are in society; for it truly is not them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Politicians never seem to learn, especially once they have got used to the taste of power offered by the spectre of Government. For all their promises, the smiling rhetoric of how the young are the ones to which they look too for inspiration for the future; that all they are doing is for them, once the Promises are made, they are forgotten quicker than a jumper given by a colour-blind aunt when hastily shoved into the back of a cupboard.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Lyndsay Fielding, Lewis Marsh, Mair Terry, Sean Croke, Geraldine Moloney-Judge.
Dystopia is a place often visited in the arts, perhaps never more so than in the theatre. The natural surroundings of the enclosed space, the door to the outside world close at hand but out of reach due to the way that your neighbour next to you will look at you with suspicion and hate filled eyes should you interrupt their train of thought, all combine to make Dystopia more real, more authentic than any other way of getting the flesh to crawl at what just could be if apathy and lethargy allow it take control.