Tag Archives: Liverpool

Wicked, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Helen Woolf, Aaron Sidwell, Kim Ismay, Steven Pinder, Emily Shaw, Iddon Jones, Charli Baptie, Emily Olive Boyd, Georgia Rae Briggs, Jason Broderick, Samantha Brown, Hannah Cadec, Grace Chapman, James Davies –Williams, Howard Ellis, Amy Goodwin, Daniel James Greenway, Jack Harrison–Cooper, Charlie Karlsen, Nicole Lupino, Stuart MacIver, Stacey McGuire, Sara Morely, Paul Saunders, James Titchener, Helen Walsh, Amy Webb, Luke Woollaston, Benjamin Yates, Amy Ross, Nikki Bentley.

Wicked, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(462 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Downstairs At The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emma Dears, Helen Sheals.

Music: Greg Palmer.

There are icons and then there are those who, thanks to maybe one performance, one shining brilliant moment captured on film or record, will forever be immortalised, their images seared into the minds of the public, even those who were not born when they tragically passed away, their attitude remaining an engraved line on the monument on how stars are born and their names becoming the epitaph of the age. It is both a warning to how lives can be snatched away and never be truly our own, and it can be the huge embrace of knowing how much a human being can be loved.

Judy & Liza, Theatre Review. Downstairs At The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. full post

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

Paint Your Wagon, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Nadia Anim, Emma Bispham, Richard Bremmer, Patrick Brennan, George Caple, Paul Duckworth, Marc Elliott, Cerith Flinn, Emily Hughes, Nathan McMullen, Zelina Rebeiro, George Rosheuvel, Keddy Sutton, Liam Tobin.

Band: George Francis, Rosalind Jones, Katie Foster, Matthew Henry, Alex Smith, Nick Anderson.

Paint Your Wagon, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(511 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Therapy?, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Therapy at the o2 Academy in Liverpool, March 2018. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

You can over analyse and seek treatment for almost anything, the small ailment through to the overriding sense of disassociation of the age, healing comes with talking and yet there is only one suitable cure for the way the world has turned, and a night of Therapy? is always the best of the Doctor’s orders.

Therapy?, Gig Review. 02 Academy, Liverpool. full post

(450 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Stick In The Wheel, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall Music Rooms, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Stick In The Wheel at the Music Rooms of the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.

Pursue the secrets of the inscription long enough and you will find hope, salvation of spirit, or if you are fortunate and the gods of the quest are with you, another adventure in which to delve straight into, to place your trust into the symbols, gestures and lyrical sense of groove in which the hardiest of explorers light and a candle, pull back the veil and shout from the heavens that it is a marvel to behold and that you should Follow Them True.

Stick In The Wheel, Gig Review. Philharmonic Hall Music Rooms, Liverpool. full post

(475 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Those Two Weeks, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Jackie Jones, Mike Sanders, Katie King, James Ledsham, Sam Walton, Daniel Cassidy, Lisa McMahon.

Life and Time hang always in the balance, a single moment can hang forever in the air; it can be as inconsequential as a gnat’s heartbeat to an Elephant’s ear, it can be as earth-shattering and historic as a single gunshot in Dallas. Each moment we live through has the potential to be remembered for ever. It is though the build up to that instant where time and life clash for a brief while, where they converge and separate leaving the devastation in its wake; it is in the ability to look at what happened before that makes us attempt to make sense of the moment later on, when the next dawn has risen.

Those Two Weeks, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(525 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

The Kite Runner, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8/10

Cast: Ravi Aujla, Jo Ben Ayed, Amiera Darwish, Raj Ghatak, Oliver Gyani, Rez Kabir, Hanif Khan, Soroosh Lavasini, Umar Pasha, Gary Pillai, Jay Sajjid, Karl Seth, Danielle Woodnutt.

This is the third time that Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of The Kite Runner has appeared on this stage. A co-production between Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse, it has enjoyed tremendous success in London’s West End since its premiere here in 2013 and is now on its second U.K. tour.

The Kite Runner, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

The City And The Value Of Things, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Ruby Bains, Natalie Barton, Leonardo Bertamini, Ellen Boyland, Erin Clarke, Kathleen Collins, Alice Corrigan, Callum Crighton, Stuie Dagnall, Sophie Edmunds, Joseph Edwards, Spike Fairclough, Will Flush, Neve Frost, Leah Gould, Tilly Harrison, Jasmine Hayes, Jake Holmes, Emily Horrex, Poppy Hughes, Chloe Hughes, Hannah Jennings, Kieran Kidd, Emily Lloyd, Luke Logan, Georgie Lomax-Ford, Frank McGuire, Charlotte Manuel, Aimee Marnell, Niamh McCarthy, Lizzy Meadows, Kaylee-Anne Meredith, Jack Malloy, Ciara Moriarty, Azarias Morris, Chloe Nall-Smith, Rachel Newnham, Courtney Parry, Luke Patterson, Jamie Pye, Keeley Ray, Marry Roberts, Nathan Russell, Samuel Serrano Roberts, Kalia Sharples, Sakura Singh Corke, Mica Skeete, Katie Smith, John Stephenson, Ellie Turner, Laura Tyrer, Natalie Vaughan, Campbell Wallace, Owen Walsh, Tommy Williams, Matthew Woodhouse.

The City And The Value Of Things, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(618 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

I, Tonya, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Bojana Novakovic, Caitlin Carver, Maizie Smith, Mckenna Grace, Joshua Mikel.

Life is a circus that is often played out to the tune of someone else’s calling, rebel in any shape of form, become a thorn in the side of authority, and you end up paying the heaviest of penalties, whether you deserve them or not. To rebel against the system is everyone’s right, find your own tune to dance to, but when it goes wrong, there is nothing you can do but blame yourself.

I, Tonya, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(577 words, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

Lady Bird, Film Review. Picturehouse @ F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalameth, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith, Stephen Henderson, Odeya Rush, Jordan Rodrigues, Marielle Scott, John Karna, Jake McDorman, Laura Marano.

The name that you call yourself is the promise that you make to stay individual, to stand out perhaps in the town where everybody knows your business, to put a stamp of your own authority and control on a part of life that either has you placed down as a trouble maker or as a romanticised character.

Lady Bird, Film Review. Picturehouse @ F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(488 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)