THEATRE REVIEW: There is a Globe Stuck in my Throat
2018-11-16
It is often the case that the voices of the youth of our world are dismissed, diminished and derailed. TheyContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Shakespeare in Love
2018-11-14
A light hearted comedy of mistaken identities, breath-taking poetry and love beyond social status. The King’s Theatre and Shakespeare inContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Last Days of Mankind
2018-11-14
Staged during the centenary of the armistice and drawing numerous parallels to the media climate of today, the poignancy ofContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Last Witch
2018-11-10
It can be difficult to envisage a time when in Scotland, if a woman was in any way perceived asContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Vulcan 7
2018-11-06
Holed up in a trailer in the eye of an Icelandic storm, with the wind howling and the temperature plummeting,Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Nye & Jennie
2018-11-03
Grief, it is said, is the price we pay for having loved. And the silver thread of grief which lacesContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Dracula
2018-10-31
Bonkers. Utterly bonkers. But entertainingly so. Cheryl Campbell’s wildly eccentric Lady Renfield doesn’t care for pale people. Neither, it wouldContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Unreturning
2018-10-25
No man is an island, wrote the cleric poet Donne. An assertion which the characters in Anna Jordan’s intense andContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Macbeth
2018-10-24
There are more ways than one to skin a cat. Or to use the imagery of Shakespeare, scorch a snake.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: The Macbeths
2018-10-17
Condensing the text to a taut and muscular 70 minutes, and focusing solely on the titular Macbeths, both of whomContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Manpower
2018-10-03
After running for two years, Man Power has most likely never been more relevant than right at this very moment.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Rain Man
2018-10-03
Bill Kenwright is chairman of Everton Football Club whose motto “Nil Satis Nisi Optimum” means “Nothing but the best is good enough”.Continue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Calendar Girls
2018-10-03
Browsing the programme notes of Calendar Girls (formerly The Girls) – which is based on the 2003 film of theContinue Reading
THEATRE REVIEW: Shrek the Musical
2018-09-27
With a plot line involving a diminutive dictator banishing quirky “freaks” to a swamp in the woods in order toContinue Reading