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REVIEWS
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July 24, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Bianca del Rio, Liverpool Empire
SOMETIMES there’s nothing quite so sweet as seeing an act who would by no means be considered mainstream fill the city’s biggest theatre off their own back.
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July 6, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Paint Your Wagon (relaxed performance), Liverpool Everyman
The Everyman rep company is wrapping up its second successful season this month with a reprise of all four of the very diverse productions it has been staging since the start of the year. Paint Your Wagon, along with Othello, A Clockwork Orange and Peer Gynt retelling The Big I Am are all showing in […]
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June 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Treasure Island, Prescot Woodland Theatre
IT is always a pleasure to get back to what is now known as Prescot Woodland Theatre, in church grounds where local success story MATE Productions stage their annual ensemble show.
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December 28, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Jungle Book, Liverpool Unity Theatre
The Unity’s Christmas show occupies a much-needed niche by virtue of it offering an affordable family show that is a panto-free zone. Brought to us once again by Ellesmere Port-based children’s specialist company Action Transport Theatre, so it is they present another beautifully crafted and understated retelling of a classic tale – this year, The […]
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November 26, 2017 / 1 Comment
REVIEW: The Vaudevillians, Liverpool Unity Theatre
This show happened more than three weeks ago now. To say I’ve been slack is something of an understatement, but no matter. It’s still making me laugh to think of The Vaudevillians. The act is a manic, meta comedy duo of two Seattle actor-musicians, on stage as their alter egos’ alter egos. And while you’re […]
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November 5, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Birth of Death, Edge Hill Arts Centre
Descriptions such as ‘brave’ or ‘thought provoking’ are easily thrown about in relation to deeply personal solo performances (and not always rightly applied); even moreso to those tackling subjects we often try not to think about. In the case of The Birth of Death, however, in sharing her own experiences Joanne Tremarco creates a remarkable […]
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October 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Tin Drum, Liverpool Everyman
The Tin Drum is an assault on the senses, a wild, unrelenting ride that jolts its audience out of complacency and dazzles bright.
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September 20, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Thaddeus Bent’s Fear-tre of Fear, 81 Renshaw
If a creepy sense of deja vu has descended on you, dear reader, fear not; this is indeed the second review of this show, at this venue, on this site. A time-travelling purveyor of Liverpool’s finest spooky tales, Thaddeus Bent began life as a sketch group regular, with creator Rob Bond going on to develop […]
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September 7, 2017 / 0 Comments
Blame it on Bianca del Rio
The RuPaul’s Drag Race winner charmed Liverpool with her first city appearance An extra earner on a night off from the larger Comedy Queens tour, Bianca del Rio stopped by Liverpool gay bar Heaven last night for a quick club appearance courtesy of the first promoters to finally start bringing Drag Race contestants to the […]
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August 31, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Royal, Liverpool Royal Court
There are lots of very good things about The Royal, which has been a huge word-of-mouth success for the Royal Court. Returning to the theatre after its premiere run last year, the madcap Scouse play tells the story of a bunch of misfits trapped in the Royal Liverpool Hospital as the old building – a […]
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August 13, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Edy Hurst – Theme Show, 81 Renshaw
While the Edinburgh Fringe is in full swing for many already, comedian Edy Hurst did a final preview of his debut full-length in Liverpool last week, before heading up to Scotland a little later in the festival run. Theme Show is inspired by Hurst’s love of theme parks – a former Disney employee to boot, […]
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July 31, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Gypsy Queen, Liverpool Unity Theatre
Gypsy Queen achieves a lot in a single act. At the heart of this 70-minute boxing drama is an unexpectedly sweet gay love story, and a relationship shaped both by the macho world of professional sport and the expectations of close-knit families. Writer Rob Ward plays ‘Gorgeous’ George O’Connell, a street fighter from the traveller […]
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July 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Pippin, Unity Theatre
Whether the company knows it or not, What We Did Next has a bit of a feel for being ahead of the curve. Their latest production Pippin is also being revived later this summer at the so-hot-right-now Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester – but obviously, WWDN got there first. They’ve also brought shows like Rent […]
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June 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Cartoonopolis, Liverpool Unity Theatre
Cartoonopolis was first performed in the Playhouse Studio a couple of years ago, where it came into existence thanks to actor Lewis Bray’s involvement with YEP [Young Everyman and Playhouse]. Along with Matt Rutter and Chris Tomlinson, that company’s artistic director and associate director respectively, Bray’s fledgling idea – to do a play about his […]
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June 7, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: I am a Tree, Physical Fest
Jamie Wood’s latest work, I am a Tree, closed this year’s Physical Fest with a sold-out performance at the City of Liverpool College’s Arts Centre, where the festival was forced to relocate at the last minute as the Unity’s refurb overran. Wood, a fest favourite who has worked closely with plenty of theatremakers in the […]
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May 29, 2017 / 1 Comment
Pepperland and Sgt Pepper at 50
Once there was a way… that a city would celebrate its most famous sons by way of a day of indoctrinated cheap mop top wig-wearing, or a street festival so drunken and rowdy it eventually had to be banned. And as the Mathew St Festival went on to become LIMF, so Sgt Pepper at 50, […]
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May 18, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Liverpool Improvathon 2017, Invisible Wind Factory
Firing on all cylinders – and “setting phasers to fun” with the introduction of each episode – this year’s Improvathon saw Liverpool’s premier improv performers back to their very best. With an intergalactic theme – The Space Age – and a rejuvinated sense of ambition for the marathon 33-and-a-half hour, non-stop show, dozens of performers, […]
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May 16, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Punter, Capstone Theatre
The pressures of modern life and the availability of professional help for those in need are the issues at the heart of The Punter, the debut play from Liverpool novelist Deborah Morgan. GP Margaret (Denise Kennedy) keeps her patients at arms’ length, not only simply to get through each day’s crippling workload, but also to […]
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April 24, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Story Giant, Liverpool Everyman
As the Everyman’s company season continues, The Story Giant takes to the stage. An adaptation of a tale by Mersey Poet Brian Patten, it brings together a wealth of the theatre’s backstage talent for a real family affair. Adapted by the venue’s former literary manager Lindsay Rodden and directed by YEP’s Matt Rutter, The Story […]
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March 13, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Committed, the Blade Factory
Committed, Stephen Smith’s bleak tale of a fractured community in 90s Belfast was first performed as part of Liverpool Irish Festival a few years ago in 2014. Revived in an unexpected corner of the Camp and Furnace complex last week, the play’s 20 year old themes still resonated, and literally had the power to shock. […]
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