Tag Archives: Liverpool

Sister Act, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 23rd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Denise Black, Michael Starke, Cynthia Erivo, Julie Atherton, Edward Baruwa, Gavin Cornwall, Gavin Alex, Jacqueline Clarke, Tyrone Huntley, Laurie Scarth, Daniel Stockton.

It is possibly the hardest job in the acting profession, to out act and outperform Whoopi Goldberg in possibly her most iconic role of Deloris Van Cartier from the hit 1992 movie Sister Act. In Cynthia Erivo, that was achieved with room to spare as she took on the role for the stage version of the film at the Liverpool Empire.

Sister Act, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Wild Flowers, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 18th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Des Flanagan, John Bradburn, John Mitchell, Josie Parks, Peter Highton, Jane Hill, Wendy Jones, Mark Jones, Dominic Pitt, Lee Gibson, Russell Parry.

There are not many cities within England that reflects on its past nor has much inspired and genuine hope for its future as Liverpool. The history is there for all to see and even on the most cursory of glances by a visitor to the city at any of the walls or historic monuments dotted around will see how the years have shaped the city’s heart.

Wild Flowers, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 9th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Kristen Atherton, William Chubb, Ben Lamb, Flora Nicholson, Sadie Shimmin, Shannon Tarbet.

To take the life of one of Britain’s foremost radical and supreme female writers of the last 200 years and present it as a dramatic and inspiring piece of theatre takes incredible fortitude, guile, a cast of infinite quality and a writer whose work is undoubtedly amongst the best in the country right now.

In Helen Edmundson’s Mary Shelley at the Liverpool Playhouse, the audience was treated rather spectacularly to all of the above and then some.

Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Our Lady Of The Goldfinches, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. May 8th 2012

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Rachel Priest, Bairbre Ni hAodha, Cellan Scott, Lee Godwin, Sarah Niven.

There are still moments on both sides of Ireland’s border that still haven’t been fully explained. The atrocities on both sides that needs to acknowledged and grieved over before it seems the country can move on finally in the mould of one of the finest in Europe.

Our Lady Of The Goldfinches, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(401 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Paperwork, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Katy-Anne Bellis, Jan Rule, Claire Jones.

For anyone who has contemplated it, the afterlife is pretty much like being here. Full of red tape, forms to fill in, stamped, counter stamped and ruthlessly checked over, strangers to sit next to and while away the hours whilst they wait for the bureaucratic nonsense to subside and the Angel of Death to become a quivering wreck. Such is the premise of Paperwork.

Paperwork, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Stevenage, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 26th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ***

Thanks to Mandy Romero’s insightful look at the Hertfordshire new town of Stevenage, it’s easy to see why it can hold fascination with those that flocked to the area after the war and the hold it has on some people.

Yes, it’s doesn’t have the history or romance of Liverpool, the urbanization of Birmingham or the charm of Edinburgh, but for those that want to escape the villages that make up the U.K. or whereas Mandy would put it, to escape the places that’s more effective than any C.C.T.V. could ever hope to achieve, these new towns that sprang up over Britain after the war offered a safe haven, a chance to start again.

Stevenage, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

3 women, Play Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 23rd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Donna Lesley Price, Kayla Keatley, Jennifer Bea.

Three women with very different lives, three extreme ways they have lived and the reactions to them were the subjects that were written about with much sensitivity, a large dollop of humour and with a fair amount of honesty, not just in the writing but in the way the select audience at the Studio 2 theatre on Parr Street reacted to the incredible portrayals of the women in question.

3 women, Play Review. Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. full post

(347 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Henry V. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. April 17th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: Brid Brennan, Graham Butler, Nigel Cooke, Giles Cooper, Sam Cox, Kurt Egiawan, Matthew Flynn, David Hargreaves, Beruce Khan, James Lailey, Brendan O’Hea, Jamie Parker, Paul Rider, Olivia Ross, Chris Starkie, Lisa Stevenson, Roger Watkins, Adrian Woodward, Helen Roberts, George Bartle, Hilary Belsey, Arngeir Hauksson.

Henry V. Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Angel Delight, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media . April 30th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Cast: Eithne Browne, Chris Darwin, Francis Tucker, and the voices of Kathy Upfold and Roger Phillips.

What do you if your husband or wife starts acting strangely, their whole demeanour and actions change so much so that you hardly recognise him. Gone is the dependable boring man you have known since before the children came along and in comes someone that all of a sudden smartens himself up and is being chased by his secretary. In this premise lays the beauty of Angel Delight.

Angel Delight, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(503 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Happy, Theatre Review. Lantern Theatre, Liverpool.

Originally published by L.S. Media. August 15th 2012.

L.S.Media Rating ****

Cast: Sean Hutchinson, Ellie Stevenson, Jack Malone, Greg Prentice, Igor Memic, Matthew Pieterse, Matthew Exley.

A perfect happy world where everyone is nice to each other and life is able to go down the path towards a serene future, it may sound like bliss, a state which we all strive…one that come with repercussions that the mood you feel is not one you that you have attained by natural means.

Happy, Theatre Review. Lantern Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(393 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)