Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Gillian Hardie, Keddy Sutton.
With a song in their hearts…well, more of a set of tunes and harmonies that has been lovingly taken from one of the much adored musical of all time and which has had a treatment most befitting of satire and the huge comic embrace that only Keddy Sutton, Gillian Hardie and Homotopia could wonderfully provide.
There are just some shows that even on paper look so good, so funny that you know if you miss them you might as well be a social pariah for a while. Such is the case for Dave Kirby’s latest theatre outing, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas.
Beneath the rotating wheel outside the Echo Arena and B.T. Convention Centre, Six leading actors from a city that produces so many incredible performers gather and kick start off the storm of activity that makes Liverpool theatres such an extraordinary place to be over the festive period.
This December, Echo Two at the Echo Arena Liverpool has a grown up festive treat in store for theatre lovers when the only Christmas-themed show in town, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, premieres at the venue from Tuesday 17th – Saturday 21st December 2013.
The first ever Christmas show from renowned Liverpool playwright Dave Kirby, whose hilarious hit shows include, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds and Blues and Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas promises to be the perfect way to spice up the festive period!
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Danielle Rude, James Ledsham, Barbara Wallis, Gillian Hardie.
Sharman Macdonald’s When I was a Girl I Used To Scream and Shout is a production that lifts a very large lid on a relationship between mother and daughter that is far from cordial and in which both are searching for something that the other is unable or somehow unwilling to give. The need for validation and acceptance is not forthcoming and over a small break in which the pair head back to the small Scottish seaside village somehow start to show where their relationship went wrong.
When I was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout is an award winning coming of age drama, about the sexual misconceptions of 15 year old Fiona, growing up in a Scottish seaside town with her best friend Vari and repressive mother Morag and will be at the Unity Theatre from Thursday 11th July to Saturday 13thJuly.
Presented by Kidakidder, the play weaves through the past to present day, Sharman Macdonald recounts with, humour, precision and deliciously rude detail this tale of sexual misadventure and the love/hate tug of war between mothers and daughters. ‘My Mother cares about everything. Life and a ham sandwich.’
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
The cabaret night is not one that gets much of a mention in today’s modern world. It can be, unfairly labelled as a relic to a by-gone age by some hard-hearted critics but sometimes the one size fits all approach to an evening’s entertainment is just as good a night out as one dominated by just comedy or an evening of music.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Scotland Road is one of the most iconic and celebrated roads in Liverpool, it has been home to a community who have looked at its heyday with a certain fondness and others have looked at it with begrudging respect that it held so many people together despite any backlash from other areas that ran it down. People have lived there; worked there and grown up there, it is only right that eventually a musical would be based on Scotty Road.