Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Robyn Paterson.
When you don’t feel safe in the area you have lived virtually all your life, do you try to change your location and begin again, be a stranger in another country, or do you try and change yourself, to try and feel the revolution that is going on around you and go with the flow? Either way you might lose something of yourself, something that makes you, you and it is not something you can ever regain.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Angus Chisholm.
The world is always on the edge of some war, some take over and the only constant in all of these merciless moments is the effect it has on the populace being bombarded and brutalised. The Olympics may dominate the news during this year’s Edinburgh Festival but for one artist, one play, the thought is very much on the use of language, the insanity of war and the apparent safety that might lay in Brazil.
Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *
Cast: Tom Dowling, Kieran Ahern.
With over 3,000 shows to choose from at the Edinburgh Festival, it is easy to feel daunted by such variety. Not only does the festival include comedy and theatre it also showcases some of the most varied performers from around the world, from circus acts to physical theatre to opera and the spoken word. Comedy sketch shows are also in abundance and there is one duo who are back for a second year to try their luck at the one of the largest art festivals in the world.
Was it wrong to believe
for a short while
that I could recapture a moment
in time,
fleeting perhaps,
the small gesture
of alluded art that I so desperately
wanted to be part of.
That to dream of standing
before you, the lonely virginal
player, steeped in the allure
of the greasepaint and the single
short monologue
in which to make
an entrance with,
to make people sit up
and take notice of,
was that ever so wrong.
Into drastic middle age, early death has been defied
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Intimacy can sometimes come as a bit of a surprise when attending a concert, it can be a little daunting to see the performer’s eyes so close up, to be sat within a few feet of the fingers dancing on the strings and catching the reflected light from the stage all around you as if watching a shadow play; it is to be thought of daunting but one surely dispelled quickly and instead thought of as a privilege instead.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Paul Thirkell, Finlay Bain, Lauren Jane Sheerman.
When the end of the world comes, you really do have to is start Living a Little, for who knows just what awaits you as the moments tick down, as the warning signs of imminent death come crashing too close to home and the final desperate leap of hope disappears off into the sunset. To do is surely the only sane thing to do in a world that has lost all reason.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Kasia Lech.
The problem with revolutions is that in the chance that they succeed, they will inevitably begin the process of being just a ravenous monster as the regime they swept away in bullets, bombs and prayers. Revolution of any type is fraught with the uncertainty of bread today, jam tomorrow, the mouldy crust the day after that, revolution is weighed down with expectation that cannot be fulfilled but it is nevertheless a state of political ultimatum that should never be ignored.
Please don’t park on a drop down,
the unassuming slight
plunge in the pavement
at the end of roads,
the pedestrian walk way,
or even pram pushing mother
or wheelchair user,
find it quite difficult
to fall down an eight inch crevice
without either tipping over,
babies nose sniffing the asphalt
and stones cutting small scares
drawing blood on fresh skin,
or the anxious wheelchair user,
not having the energy to make sure
they don’t fall flat on their face
for the amusement of others,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Charlotte Gallagher.
English Literature is awash with the heaving bosom of the heroine being swept off her feet by the man she thought was broken, dangerous, a heart ruled by anarchistic ritual and yet you won’t find that many books of the romantic nature inside Britain’s book shops, not unless you delve deeply into the classic section and realise that all those writers of a by-gone age knew something that that modern audiences, so full of sophistication and drowning in scepticism, have forgotten; that sex and romance sells like almost nothing else available to read.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Yuuya Ishizone.
The secrets that come out in the dark, when you are lost in the remoteness of the both the wilderness and the mind, those are the most comfortably haunting secrets to be revealed, they are the ones that others cannot walk away from so easily or be refreshed by the day time sun; the finest and most damning secrets are always best revealed when lost.