Originally published by L.S. Media. July 4th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating * * * *
Cast: Roy Brandon, Paul Duckworth, Taylor Parry. Lynn Francis, Lindzi Germain, Lewis Pryor, Connor Laverty, Dan McIntrye, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Francis Tucker.
When a theatre gets the start of what will be an excellent makeover, it deserves to reopen with one of Liverpool’s finest writers and a cast that is so well versed in raising the laughter to very highest levels of audience enjoyment.
Originally published by L.S. Media. March 25th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
Cast: Andrew Schofield, Stephen Fletcher.
There is a realm of safety within the theatre called the dressing room where in theory an actor can relax, prepare themselves for the night ahead and be their true selves and away from the audience glare and the lights which can show every emotion.
Originally published by L.S. Media November 30th 2011.
L.S. Media Rating *****
Cast: Paul Duckworth, Stephen Fletcher, Lindzi Germain, Rachel Rae, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Zeoi Cozens, Niamh Fitzgerald, Kay Stanton, Sarah Walker.
Every great story deserves a sequel. Every drunk Irish Catholic Father who is best friends with four former gambling mad nuns and who escaped the island of Secosu merits the chance to have his story continued.
Originally published by L.S. Media. December 4th 2010.
Cast: Paul Duckworth, Stephen Fletcher, Lindzi Germain, Rachel Rae, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Zoei Cozens, Niamh Fitzgerald, Kay Staunton, Sarah Walker.
Gambling, swearing nuns, a lost tribe of Scousers, a Catholic Father who is more uncouth than clean cloth and more bananas than you can shake a banana tree at are just some of the elements in this year’s Christmas stunning production by The Royal Court, the epic Scouse Pacific.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Rachel Rae, Eithne Browne, Andrew Schofield, Helen Carter, Alan Stocks, Stephen Fletcher, Keddy Sutton, Paul Duckworth, Catherine Morris, Lauren Southwick.
The Dome may not be the most obvious venue for a theatrical production to make its maiden debut in the city; however the acting company that gave their all for the sensational Mam! I’m ‘Ere! more than made the grand old lady very proud and the audience dance and sing with vigour and with a lot of joy.
Cast: Stephen Fletcher, Chris Grahamson, Daniel Healy, Adam Keast, Maria Lawson, Paul Mannion, Jonathon Markwood, Andrew Schofield, Nicky Swift.
In 1981 the Everyman Theatre staged a show that at the time could have been considered evocative and pouring oil onto a very raw and passionate flames. The timing couldn’t have been worse, coming soon after the worst riots to hit parts of the city in generations and so soon after Liverpool lost one of its famous, iconic and much loved sons. Looking back with the benefit of thirty years since the death of John Lennon, the musical has become more of a celebration of the man’s life, rather than the wake it would have been in 1981.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Helen Carter, Michael Fletcher, Stephen Fletcher, Liam Tobin.
Sometimes there are no words that can ever justify the praise or warmth you wish to impart to people or future audiences on how good a play or performance is. You just have to watch the crowd’s reaction and listening to the cheering of those that had made their way Epstein Theatre to watch The Sunshine Boys too know that the production is just simply amazing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Emma Grace Arends, Chantel Cole, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Lydia Rose Morales Scully, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton. Liam Tobin.
Band: Ben Gladwin, Jack Hymers, Greg Joy, Chris Nicholls, Mike Woodvine.
Excellence rarely comes as a surprise, the joy of the eternal is forever and unequivocally stands on its own legendary status, and for the creatives, the cast, and the audiences that will make their way to the Royal Court Theatre between now and the new year, The Scouse Red Riding Hood theatrical offering is as ever one of tremendous and fantastic irreverence to the staid and the cautious that grips the stony hearted and loosens the funny bone with the skill of a night with Liverpool’s own Ken Dodd and a large dose of double entendre at his disposal.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Paul Duckworth, Lindzi Germain, Michael Hawkins, Jennifer Hynes, Catherine Rice, Andrew Schofield, Lenny Wood.
Time may offer the dangling cries of surprising future in front of us, but it never truly prepares us for the rude awakening of change when it comes to becoming a parent, and then the drama of becoming a grandparent. It is in the shock of how our lives adjust in the face of age and new life that the alter of self-expression is diminished, it undergoes a transformation that in all honest so few of us are prepared for.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Samantha Arends, Emma Bispham, Jamie Clarke, Michael Fletcher, Stephen Fletcher, Lindzi Germain, Hayley Sheen, Andrew Schofield, Keddy Sutton.
Musicians: Howard Gray, Ben Gladwin, Mike Woodbine, Greg Joy.
Anarchy in the hands of the theatrical and the artistic arguably achieves more than a demonstration and the gnashing of teeth; the power of laughter bringing the pompous to their knees, the smallest prick of hilarity bursting the bubble of the forever vain and the insincere pretentious. Anarchy rules, and its rules are simple, make them laugh and you will have a show that is beautiful to the core and one with a polished sheen attached to it.