Originally published by L.S. Media. September 8th 2012
L.S. Media rating * * * *
Cast: Kevin Brannagan, Paul Braithwaite.
How do you live with yourself if you can’t live with one of the greats? Kevin Brannagan and Paul Braithwaite explore this premise in the first play of the new season at the Unity Theatre, the enticing Living With Macbeth.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Ross McCall, Holly Wilson-Guy, Matt Austin, Tom Hosker.
After wowing critics and audiences alike in September with her one-woman spectacular Wolf Red, Elinor Randle has turned her hand once more back to directing and in the biting satirical play Cold Call; she again strikes the perfect balance between brilliant absurd humour and worrying 21st century behaviour.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Maggie Fox, Sue Ryding.
For anyone who remembers the excellent and surreal comedy that The Goons, provided radio listeners in the 1950’s, the two women that makes up the strangely compelling and brilliant Lip Service Theatre Company are very much in a similar and genuinely thrilling mould.
The Unity Theatre last had Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding in the outstanding production of Withering Looks and this latest sideways look at Nordic Noir drama, the very funny Inspector Norse (Or the Girl With Two Screws Left Over) is yet another reason to catch these two intelligent women who seem to be able to delight audiences with ease and with one raised eyebrow.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Scotland Road is one of the most iconic and celebrated roads in Liverpool, it has been home to a community who have looked at its heyday with a certain fondness and others have looked at it with begrudging respect that it held so many people together despite any backlash from other areas that ran it down. People have lived there; worked there and grown up there, it is only right that eventually a musical would be based on Scotty Road.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
There are some institutions that are just too good to let go and wander off into the wilderness. Some needed bringing back every year to make sure they entertain the incredible multitude of fans they have and give them a good dose of laughter whenever possible. In Terry Titter’s case that should be for as long as he wants to.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
There was a time when to see a woman in trousers was to court scandal and above all intrigue, the ridiculous thought that the masculine clothes they chose made them any different to anyone else would be laughed at today and quite rightly so. Jessica Walker takes her audience down on a well creased and ironed road to when the music halls were abuzz with the fascination of the women who dressed as men in the well researched and brilliantly put together, The Girl I left Behind Me.
Originally published by L.S. Media. September 7th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
Cast: Elinor Randle.
Not all wolves wear fur, some are guised as men and it seems that sometimes a very exceptional woman can be unmasked as the wolf in woman’s clothing.
Wolf Red has to be considered as one of the most remarkable one woman shows to ever grace The Unity Theatre. From the moment the audience walks in and the mist swirls and descends around them, the thought of decomposing leaves and frayed sanity mingle together to reveal on a rotted stump Elinor Randle, hunched over and in the grip of perceived madness from there she delivers one of the most perfect opening monologues possible. It was eerie, certainly creepy and just on this side of exuding brilliance.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
Cast: Edward Petherbridge, Paul Hunter.
Standing on the shoulders of giants is never easy, but the view that you see, the distance and insight made possible because of their shining example is worth more than mere currency, it is the opportunity granted to learn and take note. Such is the effect that the return to Unity Theatre of Told By An Idiot’s My Perfect Mind has on the audience that it time to come it will surely be looked upon as a classic piece of theatre of the early 21st Century.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Emily Stott, Ragevan Vasan, Rachael Merry.
The search for mutual affection is a dance to which there is no instructional video, the discovery of a soul mate is that waltz or freestyle swaying pirouette through polite society and the odd incursion into the realm of misunderstanding, is one that leaves you breathless and at times declaring a submission, the foxtrot of love ignoring all the rules you may have learned.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Kyle Rowe, Darren Kuppan.
Men get accused of not talking to one another, about their fears, about their lives, on a daily basis; however, sometimes the words don’t come easily, the possibility of rejection of their thoughts, even by women, can be enough for many men to skirt the issue completely, they just keep saying they are fine, and whilst the dialogue dice is loaded by those who say this is a symbol of toxic masculinity, it could also be a indication of absolute vulnerability.