There are still tinges of red
dotted
here
and there
as my ruffled feathers mourn
the reflection I now bare
in the mirror,
cut to the bone, shorn
down, worn down Samson
strength, is it just age after all
as I approach the start
of a sixth decade here
on Earth, that self-inflicted
hair loss is congratulated
and applauded like shedding
of comfortable stones,
a woman’s hair is a crowning glory,
in the age of equalism
cannot I not lament
Following the phenomenal sell-out success of its multi award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre’s Olivier Award nominated West End smash hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery opens the new spring season at Storyhouse in Chester.
The show’s U.K. and Ireland Tour opened in Birmingham in August 2018 and will now continue touring until early June 2019.
The Comedy About A Bank Robbery comes to Storyhouse from Tuesday 29th January to Saturday 2nd February 2019. There are matinees on the Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Stephen Cunningham.
It is all about Time, how we attempt to understand it, how it tempts, teases, and controls us, Time punishes the wary and the inquisitive alike, it finds ways to deceive us, to humble and humiliate us, get too close and it leaves scars, stay away from investigating it, from immersing yourself within its non-corporeal hold and it will tear you layer from layer, it will chew down on your soul and ravage you. Time is a beast, a friend, a lawyer, an advocate and one that must unravel slowly, the tick and the tock always reminding us that if we see into our own futures, that of our own species, the result could drive us mad.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Folger, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Kevin Githrie, Ezra Miller, Claudia Kim, Cornell John, Carmen Ejogo, Wolf Hall, Derek Riddell, Rosie Corby-Tuech, Ingvar Eggert Sigursosson, Andrew Turner, Alfrun Rose, Janie Campbell Bower, Brontis Jodorowsky, Hugh Quarshie, Keith Chanter.
Some actions undertaken in life require no justification for their existence, and regardless of what you may think of the whole Harry Potter Universe and its ever-growing list of additions and supplements, what cannot be denied is the way in which J.K. Rowling has endeavoured to bring audiences together, either through the volumes of pages, or through the effect of the cinema screen.
I can feel my breathe
diminish,
go thin,
even before it leaves
my body,
exhaling out of control
as it insanely tries to justify
the war I go through,
a soldier never quite alone
in this jungle wilderness,
a beast
camouflaged
in plain sight, standing out
as death rolls the dice
with a grin that bares rotten, stunted baby teeth
and a certain foul essence that passes
for conviction, assuredness,
a firmness of plan
as jungles collide
and bitter battles
24 Kitchen Street continue to diversify their music programme with a bold foray into the world of classical music, presenting one of the key innovators within the minimalist movement, Terry Riley, performed by the composer himself and his son, Gyan Riley. The pianist and pioneer of minimalism performance will be the first classical Concert in the venue and will take place on Wednesday 10th April.
Riley’s music is intricate, utilising improvisational structures and melding elements of minimalism, jazz, ragtime, and North Indian raga, the combination of which have defined Riley’s diverse and prolific career. He will be performing on piano along with his son on guitar.
24 Kitchen Street continue to develop their live programme, inviting Syrian wedding singer extraordinaire, Omar Souleyman, for a live performance and Liverpool debut, Saturday 2nd February 2019. An icon in both world and electronic music, he’s established an international following touring major cities across the world, with recent performances at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork and Roskilde all becoming talking points.
Having established his career from humble origins circa 1994, he quickly became a household name across the Middle East. He’s now recorded hundreds of live albums at Syrian weddings, which were then reproduced and sold at local kiosks. His first studio album, Wenu Wenu was released in 2013 to high critical acclaim.
Cameron Mackintosh have announced further dates for the U.K. and Ireland tour of his acclaimed production of the Boublil and Schonberg musical Les Miserables. In addition to previously announced dates, the musical will play the Liverpool Empire from Wednesday 9th to Saturday 26th October.
Since Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of Les Misarables in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary it has taken the world by storm. Originally touring the U.K. throughout 2009/10, and concluding with 22 performances at the Barbican, this production was hailed by audiences and critics alike.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Keeping time is essential, always running behind the clock leaves you stressed, being punctual is the height of good manners; such is the demand of etiquette, a hangover from previous generations that didn’t understand the occasion is sometimes too overwhelming for some and for them to process, that the individual is not regimented by time.
Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10
Art should never be frozen, stuck in a place in which dust crawls and multiplies over the icy cage in which the artist’s endeavour is placed by the well-meaning and the loved-up into a place of no change, of never being able to grow, to adapt, to find another level in which hopefully the art in question will come to mean something different, something more.