Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * * *
Cast: Emma Gibson, Gideon Turner.
The Unity Theatre is attracting more and more exciting new projects and bringing incredible talent into the city. It has showcased not only art installations, but hip-hop, performance poetry and multi media. It has produced such a variety of different approaches to theatre that its latest arrival in Unity One fits in perfectly with the ethos of the theatre.
With a quill in hand,
I could tell thee how much they are loved,
and it would be believed, it would be honoured
for the feather would catch the late April
sunshine struggling through
the grime ridden window and would pause
your concerns for the day;
the ink staining the desk would congeal
and hard work would be seen to have been employed
in the making of verbal declarations of love
to your fair and beautiful eyes.
With a typewriter, an old fashioned
set of clunky keys resounding
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Tahreen Kutub, Michael Cavanagh, Angela McComb, Ifan James, Gillian Paterson-Fox, Richard MacDonald, Peter Durr, Maria Hutchison, Kenny Lanceley, Yahya Baggash, Kaylee-Ann Meredith, Ian Gray, Pam Campbell.
The destruction of Troy has been assured for years yet for Odysseus the battle remains fresh in the memory as each day he is kept away from the island of Ithaca, his beautiful wife Penelope and son Telemachus, a plaything of the gods, a supplicant to the immortals, their whims and desires. For Odysseus the world has been against him and his men for two decades and all he wants is to be home, a home in which Penelope now is being courted by fresh suitors who abuse the hospitality and ransack the estate.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is a reason why Harley Quinn is so popular with the fans of the D.C. Comics world and perhaps not for the reason that many people will think of as they conclude that it either boils down to the great characterisation employed by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and their team of diligent creatives or the way in which, for a character within the D.C. universe, she is seen as breath of fresh air; either could be employed to describe the phenomenon of Harley Quinn but arguably they would be lost in the truth somewhere.
His tale is over, borrowed
from his own father who sought a difference
to the world of industrial dirt
and the stench of flippant war
across Europe; the boy swam the great lake
beside his home in Hamilton, played
Ice Hockey and dreamed of fields, woods
and forests that would survive
all that he would leave behind
as he boarded the ship in Montreal
that would lead him back to another war,
one he would see erupt in yellow golden flame and damaging red
as Coventry burned,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ruth Alexander Rubin, Eithne Browne, Dennis Conlon, Annie Edwards, Greg Fossard, Hayley Hampson, Phil Hearne, Paul Kissaun, Olwen Rees.
It is a question of definition, of how your generation will be remembered, not by the politics it suffered or the times they live through, but by the music that they send up the charts and the beat they constructed in alleyways, clubs and bars. Music is the beat of the heart and if the heart keeps pumping then the music stays alive and in Dave Simpson’s gentle but absorbing musical comedy, The Golden Oldies, music is not just the food of love, it is the art that keeps all staying alive.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The relief of being in a country where all forms of music are given a fair go, are to be congratulated for the feeling of exotic nature they bring to the ears of the local music lover, is to understand that the world is not to be confined to the borders of the North Sea, The English Channel or the coast of Wales and its mountain ranges casting their eye warily over the waters towards Ireland and the United States; music is after all above such petty things as borders and in the express train ride that is South Korea’s ENO G, the feeling of exotic is balanced out by the temptation of sound on offer in the best traditions of funk fusion and heartfelt lyrics.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The Paul McCartney auditorium may have been still and as quiet as a family of gently snoring mice as they snoozed under the duvet before the arrival on stage of Grace Eliza, however they soon joined in the loud appreciation for the young R&B singer as she blistered through a set at the L.I.P.A showcase with tremendous ambition.
It is an ambition that will serve her well in the coming years and it is one that also matches the depth of beauty that is very much in evidence as the audience almost scrambled to the front of the stage to get a full look at the raven haired songstress.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
The instrumental album is one that in many ways can carry more weight with the listener than any other particular style on offer; perhaps in part due to the musician or band allowing the freedom of thought to really take hold and flourish, permitted with grace to soar higher than those albums stuck rigid in their lyrical excellence.
Who would be an icon in 2016
when Time suggests you have had your Time
upon this Earth, making people
laugh, sing, think and knowing
they have had some privilege of sparkling
nobility shine in their lives,
for it turns out that 2016 was just a murdering
git in heavy disguise as a year,
the black mask covering the demonic glee
of celebrity assassination as the poor,
genuine 2016 is locked in a basement somewhere
in Munich, no access to the news
and only given bowls of water