Tag Archives: Theatre Review. Spotlites

Cracked Tiles, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Lorenzo Novani.

Just as other symbols of community seem to be disappearing from our streets and neighbourhoods, the local fish and chip shop is also in danger of becoming an outmoded and obsolete form of kinship that transcended class, age and wealth.

A trip to the chippy was for many the chance to catch upon the gossip and talk of the area, especially if they didn’t want to spend time in the public house, it was the place to eat cheaply but with respect and in the dark days of World War Two it was the only food source that wasn’t rationed. The local fish and chip shop seemed indestructible and yet as Lorenzo Norvani shows in his delightfully poignant production, Cracked Tiles, the days of the community enjoying such a valuable resource are fast approaching a critical juncture.

Cracked Tiles, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

The South Afreakins, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Robyn Paterson.

When you don’t feel safe in the area you have lived virtually all your life, do you try to change your location and begin again, be a stranger in another country, or do you try and change yourself, to try and feel the revolution that is going on around you and go with the flow? Either way you might lose something of yourself, something that makes you, you and it is not something you can ever regain.

The South Afreakins, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

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

Carlotta de Galleon-A Fool for Love, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Charlotte Gallagher.

English Literature is awash with the heaving bosom of the heroine being swept off her feet by the man she thought was broken, dangerous, a heart ruled by anarchistic ritual and yet you won’t find that many books of the romantic nature inside Britain’s book shops, not unless you delve deeply into the classic section and realise that all those writers of a by-gone age knew something that that modern audiences, so full of sophistication and drowning in scepticism, have forgotten; that sex and romance sells like almost nothing else available to read.

Carlotta de Galleon-A Fool for Love, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2016. full post

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

Tent, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Yuuya Ishizone.

The secrets that come out in the dark, when you are lost in the remoteness of the both the wilderness and the mind, those are the most comfortably haunting secrets to be revealed, they are the ones that others cannot walk away from so easily or be refreshed by the day time sun; the finest and most damning secrets are always best revealed when lost.

Tent, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2016. full post

(388 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Michelle Christine, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Canada always seems to hold an affinity with most people round the world, possibly because of its laid back approach to life, the sincerity and friendliness of its people and the fact that it is so vast, arguably so much more natural, less spoilt by human progress; it is a terrain built on the rugged and intrepid, the explorer and the indomitable, it is a country that produces absolute stirring stories.

Michelle Christine, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2016. full post

(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Just An Ordinary Lawyer, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Tayo Aluko.

It can take a single moment to make a person’s life seem insignificant, to put down all their achievements with a dismissive sign of arrogance, of misplaced racial or gender inequality or presumed superiority, it can take that moment to possibly change that person’s life forever. Sometimes it can be though for the good as they strive on in their goal to become the better person, the one with ideals, honour and purpose in the community. Sometimes one just wishes to be an ordinary man, sometimes you become exceptional as Just an Ordinary Lawyer.

Just An Ordinary Lawyer, Theatre Review. Spotlites, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016. full post

(439 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)