Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Robert Hadden, Joshua Quigley, Craig McDonald.
When praise is duly served, when the press rave about you and proclaim you to be the next best thing, the only way to deal with life from there is realise that the dream is over; you have failed in the objective which was to change the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Grant Robert Keelan, Stuart Crowther, Morten Aamodt.
In an opening that could have had Monty Python’s Eric Idle applaud for the utter creativity employed in the many different words used to describe sex between two men, L.I.P.A.’s Stuart Crowther’s play Spunk was something of a revelation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Carl James Fowler, Carmel Skelly, Chris Douglas, Craig Sharkey, Dave Unsworth, Francesco La Rocca, Jim Welsh, Kirsty Taylor, Mike Mackenzie, Nicky Loftus, Pat Hart, Nathan Bates, Peter Bromilow, Rachael Reason, Rita Sharp, Robyn La Rocca, Steve Dagleish, Vera Farrell.
Musicians from the Halewood Choir: Maurice Wileman, Howie Blakeborough, Phil Dean, Pam Bovis, Jill Marquis, Joan Rutledge, Patsy McDonough, Hazel Brennan, Anne Dean, Liz Haygarth.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones.
There will be many who will never get what it was all about but for the multitude, Monty Python followed a natural path that had been laid down by The Frost Report, That Was The Week That Was and The Goons, the ability to send up Britain, the revolution of the way we looked at ourselves as a nation in the post war era and in how we finally were able to put two crafty fingers up to a hierarchy in which didn’t care.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Shaun Stanley, James Bray.
When Jack comes home carrying a Primark bag, Chris knows that Jack has got something on his mind; that their blossoming relationship, which has just gone through a civil partnership, may be in trouble. Is it another man, the problems of 21st Century living in which all are equal, all struggling along at the bottom due to the actions of Government and the way they have handled certain economic practises or quite simply that the need to express an artistic side, even if it means showing a bit of bottom as a male stripper, is enough for Jack to come home carrying home some exotic clothes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *
Cast: Roxanne Male, Jack Taylor-Wood, Natalie Romero.
Bedroom farce has always been a favourite of British audiences; it seeps out of the psyche like a cream doughnut being squeezed teasingly in the playful hands of an artist but with much embarrassed sniggering accompanying it. Bedroom farce is what passes unashamedly as the way to view the British and the habits they employ in the art of love making, lots of innuendo but the frightened reserve of a shell shocked rabbit.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 81/2/10
Cast: Harriet Wilson, Sophie Smith.
There are just times when you have to congratulate a writer for taking such a logical step that you cannot help but wonder why nobody really has gone there before.
Stuart Crowther’s Gearstick looks at life in which women have been banned, to show femininity a crime, to be born female either sees you destroyed or having a state enforced gender reassignment. Gearstick takes the idea that that too be born a woman is not just seen as second class but an evil in which to be eradicated and in which if you are a woman who has somehow got passed all the checks can see you hiding your true nature, especially hard when you are a Lesbian.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: James Devlin, Stuart Crowther, Andie Egan.
Relationships are complicated, they can blow your mind or they suck the life out of you but what happens when one of the pair has a tendency to kiss someone else just to punish the other, the party is some relationships seems to survive, in others you wonder what they are actually both after.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Ashleigh Jones, Nicola Ravenscroft, Rhiannon Davies McCabe, Amy McAlan, Kate Emmett, Emily Rigby, Courtney Carragher, Emily Washington, Olivia Coleman, Reece Armstrong, John Risley, Ceri Wyn, Ian Curran, Nigel Peever.
There have been many memorable Victorian characters created over the years. Perhaps Charles Dickens springs to mind as one who really captured what life was like with his descriptions of the workhouse and his over the top characters. For writer Lyn Wakefield Ghosts Of Kirkdale is such a snapshot of grim Victorian life but told from the perspective of children.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Liam Hale, Dominic Davies, Rio Matchett, David Paes, Sean Stokes.
The world according to Gregory Bike, a mantra for all the giants of theatre, a man to whom you should listen to with open ears and open minds…a man to whom the word theatre is the be all and end all of life’s pursuit of truth and experience…a man who exists completely as fantastic extension of Liam Hale’s superb imagination and for whom Play With Myself: The Trials and Tribulations of Drama Practitioner Gregory Bike will surely be rated as a must see at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.