Originally published by L.S. Media. January 15th 2011.
Cast: Matt Rutter, Tim Lynskey.
It takes two brave men to create the genuinely superb insanity that is portrayed on stage in the form of The Friendship Experiment. From the moment Matt Rutter and Tim Lynskey bound on stage, the audience is in for over an hour of mayhem which will lead them down several rabbit holes and coming out the other side asking “what the hell just happened”.
Originally published by L.S. Media. February 16th 2011.
Cast: Sarah Belcher, Dan Ford, Katie Lightfoot, Matt Tate, Neal Craig.
There is only one way to describe Analogue’s production of Beachy Head and that is shockingly powerful, a play that will have audiences leaving the theatre having their perceptions changed about the way we look at the way someone takes their own life.
The Unity Theatre once more played perfect host to a troupe of actors and a story that is swept under the carpet and not discussed openly in any home. The intimacy of the stage reflecting perfectly how the main character of Stephen Mitchell, played with stunning grace by Dan Ford, and his story, as told initially by the other actors on the stage.
Originally published by L.S. Media. June 10th 2011.
Cast: Donna Lesley Price, Richie Grice, Jodie Nesbitt, Angela Waller, Su Burke, Trevor Fleming, James Williams-Watts, Al T Kossy.
In amongst the high profile theatre productions going on in Liverpool over the next couple of months, one piece of genuine theatre may have passed the everyday theatre goer by, which is, with all things considered, a shame. For in Boom Boom Baby Productions of If the Shoe Fits, audiences were left reeling with laughter as the company thrilled everyone with their irreverent look at Liverpool life through the eyes of a group of people who work in a high class shoe shop.
Originally published by L.S. Media. January 15th 2012.
L.S. Media Rating *****
There was a certain degree of crossing over from the old year into the new at The Unity theatre. Not only was the wonderful The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor being performed in the Unity One but upstairs in a bare space that encompasses Unity Two, the audience were treated to the kind of visual fast paced, anarchic display of comedy that is so underused, so brilliantly written and so quick that it leaves you breathless and desiring more and more.
Picture by John Garfield-Roberts
Originally published by L.S. Media March 23rd 2012.
L.S. Media Rating ****
Cast: Liam Tobin, Keddy Sutton, Mark Keemar Smith.
There are so few theatre companies that get the chance to put on a recently found classic by Aristophanes, lovingly restored with some academic attachments and a room of serious people nodding their heads and then talking about why Greek theatre is better than anything that’s written today.