Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is far harder to give away half your heart than to tear the entire beating beast from its crevice. Half a heart can still care, it can still desire and function, it just feels the pain and loss of that it was separated from with more intensity than if the heart stopped with the sudden force of being slammed into obscurity and the unfeeling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
Cast: Helen Foster
To explore, it is a fundamental part of humanity, that need to stretch out and find new lands, to discover fresh ways of achieving, to be the first to see something or experience new depths is what drives us. However with each passing moment the limits that we can go to are not just tested, they are slimmed down as more and more rules are imposed and limitations are set down, it takes sheer bloody mindedness to go beyond what is expected and those that do should be congratulated for doing so.
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Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lili Monori, Gergely Bánki, Tamás Polgár, Károly Ascher, Erika Bodnár, Bence Csepeli, János Derzsi, László Gálffi, Kornél Mundruczó, Ervin Nagy, Natasa Stork, Vanda Verle.
A nation always seems surprised when a particular group who have been abused, mistreated with contempt, fights back and gives a nasty bite to those who have dealt out beatings, proverbial or otherwise. Throughout human history, the abuse of power has led to such revolts and the only surprise is that people still think they can get away with it.
I introduced the young twenty something to myself at seventeen
and for good measure, them both to me at thirty.
At forty-four I sat back and watched them try to make
small talk, idle chit chat, but not the hint of interrogation
that should be imagined when stuck in a room with your future at sixty,
pompous, arrogant, full of fear and trepidation,
and your ten year old self, who acts pretty much the same.
The glaring glances and accusing stares from the seventeen year old
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Cast: Nick Birkinshaw.
It is the shadow of what can happen to us all when we obsess over what has been and allow the memory room to breathe, take shape and distort what has been. The alienation of the future self as it withers into frosted, disgraced old-age as it rages against the impetuousness of youth and the exuberance of hope that resides in middle-age, all set down for posterity as mould settles on the floor and in the mind, these are the qualities that make Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape such an outstanding and rewarding play to see at the Unity Theatre.
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There is arguably no such thing as luck, maybe perhaps in the casinos of New Jersey and in the deserts of Nevada, even then it’s doubtful as the flick of a simple switch can always bring the house crashing down; but luck in life? It’s more to do with timing, perseverance, hard work and the abiding kiss of resolution that makes things happen in the way that they do and for Bill Feehely and his latest album, Lucky Struck. It is all down to the singer, the penmanship of quality songs and the observational skills, if this is luck then Bill Feehely is one wonderfully blessed man.
The Cuckoo sings as bright as any bird
and its forest chattering drawl
draws many mouths to smile
as the long awaited Spring peeks its head
from around Winter’s closely gathered shawl.
The odious nature of its parenting skills make the Cockroach
shiver with nerves pumping prehistoric blood
and alien indestructibility. It shakes its scale like protrusion
and it sniffs loudly and the Cuckoo hears from above the trees
soaring in search of a sucker to warm its eggs.
The marble eggs carefully laid by the sparrow, destroyed, turned over, damaged
Following a sell-out run at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Calamity Jane embarked on a national U.K. tour which opened at the Plymouth Theatre Royal on Wednesday 17th September 2014. The Watermill Theatre production of Calamity Janeis produced by Jamie Wilson, Paul Elliott and Duncan C. Weldon and will play at the Liverpool Empire Theatre from Tuesday 5th May for one week only.
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There are forces in the Universe that still hold humanity with freedom to be installed with awe, the passing of a fiery comet hurtling towards an endless cycle of possible infinity, the first rays of Spring sunshine on the back after months of darkness. The images captured by the Hubble telescope and the radiance beyond our scope and knowledge and yet look up at the sky in the dark and see the comforting sight of the Moon, it is a constant that has been in the thoughts of humanity since we evolved out of the Primordial Soup.
I have never been a dedicated follower of fashion,
the committed hunter of trends or the seeker of the inner circle.
I couldn’t care less for style unless it’s of my own making
and the latest thing, the craze of Dutch Tulip, just passes me by.
I love my team but won’t buy into the ethos that sits there now,
I loved them when were so bad we were great and being against type
When others around me supported the local three teams,
and then later the likes of the team from Salford, Arsenal or the beautiful