Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
There are names in Liverpool that just draw you in, that leave you with remorse when you cannot find a way to blow off life’s expectancies and attend a show, a performance, a sense of the masterclass they, and those alongside them, offer with grace and sincerity, whilst rocking the plaster dust of static existence to the four winds.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
After the drama of a cold winter, the sunshine that seemed to bleach the sadness and concerns of Liverpool away for a while at the end of February day was one that bought a huge reflex of musical entertainment to the crowd, almost wrapped in awe, to the support set of Jenny Colquitt at the Philharmonic Music Room as she opened with expertise and charm ahead of Paul Dunbar’s album release.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: John-Paul Birss, Helen Carter, Paul Duckworth, Lindzi Germain, Adam McCoy, Lydia Rosa Morales-Scully, Keddy Sutton, Jhanaica Van Mook, Lenny Wood.
Band: James Breckon, Greg Joy, Chris Nicholls, Mike Woodvine.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Liza Goddard, Gracie Fellows, Caroline Harker, Gray O’ Brien, Simon Roberts, Russell Layton, Judith Rae, Rheanna Trueman.
Life is an echo of what was once a story, memories, ghosts, remnants of where tales go when they need to be resurrected to make the living think, to give them reason to understand the effects of the past on the present.
To be cut off from civilisation is akin to be forsaken by Time, everything moves at a different pace, the void between reality and what we perceive as apparitions, ghosts, visitations, is such that those echoes reflect our sense of space when there is little or no company to ward off the meaningless and the agony of our mind at work.
Originally published on L. S. Media. 8th July 2012.
Cast: Ben Hallworth, Dale Grant, Nuala Maguire.
Perhaps the idea of admission of guilt or even worry is one step too far to cope with after a bottle of wine or two. Even the Half A Bottle Gone may be too much for some to comprehend the seriousness of a life that has been turned upside down by one moment’s indiscretion.
Half A Bottle Gone by Ian Walker deals with before and after, the moments where you blurt out a secret that has been tearing away at your soul and the moment when you first saw the life you lead turn dramatically inside out.
Originally published on L.S. Media. 24th July 2012.
L.S. Media Rating * * * *
Cast: Helen Carter, Stephen Fletcher, Nick Phillips.
The course of true love never did run smooth, even less so when told over the period of five years and from two different perspectives and times. This is the premise of Jason Robert Brown’s enormously well written musical The Last Five Years.
Originally published on L.S. Media. July 17th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating * * * * *
Think you know magic? Until you have seen the spectacle of Gateshead born magician extraordinaire Totally Ninja-David Alnwick on stage, you haven’t seen anything.
Originally published by L.S.Media. July 6th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating * * * *
Cast: Graham Wright, Mary Savage, Beth Anderson, Jessica Olwyn, Anne Irvine, Christine Axworthy, James Lydon, Aimee Marrell, Rachel Rosie, Nakib Narat , Agata Jaroscz, Jason Carragher, Agustin Arraez, Lisa Symonds, Kieran McElduff, Karl Hesketh, Richard Harrickey, Alexander Laurel, Albert Hastings, Stacey Liddell, Robert Carter, Peter Higham.
When it comes to staging an Arthur Miller play, it can go horribly wrong or incredibly right. The pressure of living up to the standards of possibly the greatest American playwright of the 20th century is not just magnified; it is peered over, analysed and broken down right down to the very facets that make even The Crucible seem daunting to appear in.
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. july 3rd 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
Cast: Ali Bastian, Tupele Dorgu, Stefan Booth, Bernie Nolan, Jamie Baughan, Alex Wetherhill, Chloe Ames, Daniele Arbisi, Karen Aspinall, Nick Blair, Claire Rogers, Ian Oswald, Gregor Stewart, Kate Morris, Genevieve Nicole, Melanie Cripps, Jennifer Hilton, Adam Salter, Dominic Lamb, Ashley Rumble.
Chicago – the very whisper of intrigue, scandal, murder, vice and jazz that’s stalks this musical sets audiences into one of those wild surges of expectation which can make or break every performances. The bigger the expectation can lead to a much bigger and dramatic fall.