Tag Archives: Theatre Review. Unity Theatre

Lampedusa, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Louise Mai Newberry, Steven Elder.

Man’s humanity to man has been seen for all it is worth over the last few months after image after image has reached all corners of the globe as the biggest mass exodus and movement of people since the Second World War has been beamed without hype into the homes of billions. Images of death, of desperation, of recriminations, of pain, of fear, of selfishness and of hope have all played their part of the story of 2015.

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

African Beach Party, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Bradley Thompson, Dorcas Sebuyange.

Everybody has a tale, a story in which to impart, it might be the only one they ever tell in frustration or anger, it might be the only one related with open eyes and truth within their soul. However, everybody’s stories deserve to be told; even one that might prove to be counter-productive to the general feeling, for without that story, a meeting of minds cannot be held in balance.

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(332 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Happily Ever After, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound & Vision Rating: * * * *

Cast: Paul Curley, Ady Thompson, Eve Shotton, Bruno Mendes.

Happily Ever After is inspired by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland book King & King which was published in 2002, which tells the story of two young princes who fall in love and marry. It opened up the debate of how young do children have to be to be able to understand gay relationships. The book has made its mark and has since been published in eight languages. It has gone on to receive great success, as well as hitting opposition from parents, teachers and social conservatives.

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(338 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Animals, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Abby Melia, Bradley Thompson, Bryony Doyle, Daniel Sebuyange, Dorcas Sebuyange, Emma Burns, Kane Roberts, Lina Sebuyange, Owen Jones, Raven Maguire, Sam Ikpeh, ScottLewis, Toin Otubsin, Paislie Reid.

Denigrate a section of society enough, make them pay for imagined crimes of a group of individuals with sweeping undeserved statements and it is no wonder that they will perhaps meet all your expectations. When that section of society is the young, the next generation of people to whom the world becomes a narrow and twisted version of doomed failure then it is no surprise that sometimes they act the way the papers expect and the Government demands.  The problem with demonising the young is they have the teeth to bite back, they have the surprise and good will deeply engrained in them to show just exactly who the Animals are in society; for it truly is not them.

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(492 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Promises, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Politicians never seem to learn, especially once they have got used to the taste of power offered by the spectre of Government. For all their promises, the smiling rhetoric of how the young are the ones to which they look too for inspiration for the future; that all they are doing is for them, once the Promises are made, they are forgotten quicker than a jumper given by a colour-blind aunt when hastily shoved into the back of a cupboard.

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

Adolf In Toxteth, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Chris Pybus, Eirek Bar, Giulia Rampons, Andrew Wall.

From out of the mist and the warm steam of the train that arrived in Liverpool in 1912 came a shudder, the feeling of a disease walking with the casual air of authority and frightened clash of Time as the supposed six months of Adolf Hitler’s time in Liverpool before World War One bore fruit a hundred years on.

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

Millionaires Anonymous, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Geraldine Moloney Judge, Neil MacDonald, Chrissi-Jo Hyde, Lee Burnitt, David Clayton, Albert Hastings, Caitlin Mary Carley Clough.

If money is the root of all flowering evil, then the pursuit of it must be the untilled field. Since its inception the national lottery has produced more millionaires in the country than at any time in its history and yet how many of them have been truly happy or felt blessed beyond their wildest dreams, happy not because of the money and the chance to spend it upon anything they wish, but for it to do real good, to effect real change?

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

Jane And Lizzy, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Elisa Cowley, Bekah Sloan, Tom Burroughs.

It is said that the profession that feels closest to the act of death is writing, the long lonely hours, the solitude, the feeling of other worldly existence and the remarkable pain and suffering that goes unconsciously with it, it can be seen as shaking hands with the great beyond, stepping into the light that comes with modern laptops.

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(508 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)

The Art Of Falling Apart, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool. (2015).

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Tim Lynskey,  Matt Rutter.

All good things must end, all exceptional pieces of writing and performing will live on beyond the final bow, the truth of the honest standing ovation and the lament that must come to us all; for in Robert Farquhar’s, Tim Lynskey’s and Matt Rutter’s outstanding The Art Of Falling Apart, the necessity of human experience, the sheer demand of Time and the complexity of the relationship between humanity and existence is there in all its brutally humorous and mischievous form.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Bonnie & Clyde, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Izzy Feld, Jak Malone, Charlotte Dowson, Adam Bennett, Julie Evans, Tom Lox, Kate Rugen, Philip Birss, Lorna Foley, Andrew Abrahamson, Steven Andrew, Andy Godden, Zoe Thirsk, Jo Vickers, Catherine O’Brien, Carrie Cushman, Andrew Jones, Jamie Barfield, Megan Key, Andy Walker, Sonia Chapman, Stephen Longmuir, Ruth Dalton.

Musicians: Maddie Stones, Jonas Tattersall, Alan Moore, Emily Grint, James Breckon, Lara Simpson, Matthew Cheung, Jack Taylor, Mike Ward, Paul Wilson, Gareth Dawson.

 

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(532 words, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)