Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Joe Alessi, Sean Aydon, Tom Canton, Tim Chipping, Sean Jackson, Sean Murray, Paul Rattray, Jamie Sives, Susie Trayling, Jem Wall, Ewart James Walters, Steven Bradshaw, Adam Byrne, Eric Dean, David Dixon, Kevin Foott, Margaret Gill, Christopher Grundy, Lina Jankauskite, Jackie Jones, Sarah Kelly, Hannah McGowan, Kagen Plant, John Purcell, John Smith, Stephen Turner, Salantha Walton, Curtis Wilson.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Daniel Fitzgerald, Nina Levy, Elliot Reeves, Aaron Kehoe, Kathryn McGurk, Nadia Amin Mohammed Noor, Natalie Bedkowska, Rachel Barry, Hannah McGowan, Imogen Allen, Katherine Collins, Tommy Williams, Nick Crosby, James O’ Neil, Tom Harrington.
The past is there not to be mocked or derided but to teach, guide and inform the future of its possible folly. By denying the very basic right to exist, to doubt their heritage, is to conjure up their wrath and those that sit in their corner.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: EJ Raymond, Ricci McLeod, Irene Macdougall, Alison Halstead, Millie Turner, Miles Mitchell, Gerard McDermott, Ann Louis Ross. Amy Conachan.
There’s nothing like a wedding to enhance a good blood feud, to really get to the bottom of the relationship between one family and another, united in only one thing, absolute hatred of each other.
Lorca’s Blood Wedding explores the relationship of such feud but with that subtle twist that makes it stand out, makes it drive home the serrated cake knife home even further, as the least likely person on the day is the one calling the shots.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5/10
Cast: Lewis Bray, Garry Cooper, Emma Curtis, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Cynthia Erivo, Michael Hawkins, Charlotte Hope, Dean Nolan, Andrew Schofield, Alan Stocks, Tom Vary, Matt Whitchurch, Ozzie Yue.
One year on from the Everyman Theatre opening its bright, brand new interior to the people of Liverpool once more, throwing the wrapping of the impressive exterior and the doors being opened wide with a huge Merseyside smile, William Shakespeare returns to liven up the world and let the magic in the Everyman stage run over.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Nadia Anim Mohammed Noor, Aaron Barker, Rachel Berry, Natalie Bedowska, Jacob Lee, James Bibby, Tiegan Byrne, William Catterall, Isobel Catterall, John Collins, Nick Crosbie, Daniel Fitzgerald, Lucy Harris, Heidi Henders, Poppy Hughes, Sean Hyland, Aaron Kehoe, Charlotte Larkin, Nina Levy, Scott Lewis, George Lomax-Ford, Niamh McCarthy, Hannah McGowan, Kathryn McGurk, Keeley Ray, Elliot Reeves-Giblin, Kaila Sharples, Janes O’Neil, Mark Powell, Jamie Pye, Nathan Russell, Harry Sargent, Curtis Wilson.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Jocasta Almgill, Jonny Bower, Tom Connor, Jessica Dives, Zita Frith, Sam Haywood, Ben Mabberly, Adam Keast, Nicky Swift, Francis Tucker.
There is no place like home; even if you have got used to the décor of another place, to come home, put on the fairy wings, let the wolf have the run of the back yard and immerse yourself into a great night of magical comedy, mayhem and misrule is to have your heart filled with joy.
Rhodri Mellir as Spike in Bright Phoenix. Photograph by Jonathan Keenan.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Carl Au, Paul Duckworth, Rhian Green, Penny Layden, Rhodri Mellir, Mark Rice-Oxley, Cathy Tyson, Keiran Urquhart, Laura J. Martin, Vidar Norheim.
Somewhere over the rooftops of Liverpool, a haunting soliloquy is sang softly by one of the people the new renaissance taking place in the city couldn’t touch. In Lime Street an old ghost comes home to face the past and a group of children’s memories are re-awoken. The Futurist Cinema may be gone but its soul still resonates in those that made it their home and for the future, a Bright Phoenix stirs from the ashes of a crumbling society.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Philip Shaun McGuinness, Wesley Wharton, Nick Crosbie.
It does take someone with extreme passion and an undeniable knowledge of certain genres in which the call change the way they are perceived, to make more relevant to modern society, speaks loudest. The latest film which stared Australian actor Russell Crowe, the much talked about Noah, is one example, perhaps poor one, of a story that in The Bible was, even for the atheist, is one that can be a stirring read. Natasia Hodge, musician, actor, singer, director and soon to be company head of B Tales, takes the story of Daniel from the Old Testament, and unlike Noah, delivers a fine piece of work in which, thanks to the excellent cast and the sublime writing of Laura-Kate Barrows and some clever effects and excellent additional music, is itself just as stirring as the Biblical text laid down.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 21st 2010.
Cast: Ken Bradshaw, Kevin Harvey, Matti Houghton, Paul McCleary, Eileen O’Brien, Emily Pithon, Stuart Richman, Nicholas Shaw, Hugh Skinner.
The Everyman theatre is well renowned for its staging of hard, gritty and sometimes disturbing plays. None so more perhaps than the opening play of the new season, John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore.
There may be those who would shy away from the subject of incest, murder and impinging insanity but director Chris Meads has built a reputation for getting the best out of actors even in the most unusual of plays and in Tis Pity he has struck gold again with a cast that tackles some of humanity’s base instincts and wanton desires.