Tag Archives: Jodie Steele

Picture You Dead. Theatre Review. The Lowry, Salford.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Ben Cutler, Fiona Wade, Peter Ash, George Rainsford, Gemma Stroyan, Adam Morris, Jodie Steele, Nicholas Maude, Mark Oxtoby, Valentina Arena, Ross Telfer.

A person will kill for a whole host of reasons, they will do it for love, for revenge, for money, and anger, the motives are often observed to be simple, straightforward, and often they are clouded by detail and unfathomable causes; but none perhaps are as perplexing as those which are committed in the name of ownership in an object, especially in art, for who would kill to have possession of an item that they would never be able to show another human being.

Picture You Dead. Theatre Review. The Lowry, Salford. full post

(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds, Theatre Review. Dominion Theatre, London.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Liam Neeson, Michael Praed, Madalena Alberto, Jimmy Nail, Heide Range, Daniel Bedingfield, David Essex, Jerry Wayne, Will Barratt, Ethan Bradshaw, Charlie Bell, Antony Hansen, Matt Holland, Tash Holway, Chris Jenkins, Grace McKee, Jack Mitchell, Marios Nicolaidos, Simon Shorten, Jodie Steele.

The music is still the same, the feeling of beauty, of enormity unchanged from its conception and aside from the last arena tour, more than able to bring a tear to the eye of anyone who has taken Jeff Wayne’s musical War of the Worlds to their hearts; yet as the production enters a new phase of performance, the dynamic has shifted, it now resonates with a feeling of positive creativity and the truth of theatre, that all should be able to see the actors reactions to the immensity, the scale of the music on offer.

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds, Theatre Review. Dominion Theatre, London. full post

(502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)