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Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

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.

Mary Shelley, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Betrayal, Theatre Review. Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

 

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 2nd 2012.

L.S. Media Rating *****

Cast: John Simm, Colin Tierney, Ruth Gemmell, Thomas Tinker.

There’s a lot of media baggage that gets dragged along whenever a new production of the late Harold Pinter gets a much needed run on a tour. The fact that Pinter’s work can rouse so much passion and enjoyment in almost every line, even when some of the audience can be audibly heard afterwards that they didn’t get what the play was about, just adds to the mystique and power of the man’s writing as everyone decided to dissect each and every line.

Betrayal, Theatre Review. Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. full post

(469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)