picture from Liverpool Live.
Cast: Finbar Lynch, Luke Griffen, David Ricardo-Pearce, Yasmine Akram,Youssef Kerkour, Lisa Kerr, David Rintoul.
Following on from last year’s highly intelligent and well worked play The Chronicles of Long Kesh that dealt with those imprisoned during the troubles in Ireland comes Playwright Richard Bean’s The Big Fellah, a strong and powerful play takes a long term look at the I.R.A. and the fall out between a group of people across 30 years in New York.
Originally published by L.S. Media. December 9th 2011.
L.S. Media Rating *****
Cast: Rebecca Bainbridge, Jonny Bower, Carla Freeman, Robert Gilbert, Adam Keast, Chris Lindon, Kate Marlais, Griffen Stevens, Francis Tucker, Sarah Vezmar.
Dust off the tuxedo, air the sparkly gown and make sure that over the festive period you get down to the Playhouse Theatre and take in the spirit of the Everyman Theatre’s traditional and outrageously funny Rock and Roll Panto, Cinderella, Mop! In the Name of Love.
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.