Author: Fran Yeoman
Theatre Review: A Christmas Carol, Liverpool Playhouse
There were ghosts in this play alright, many more than Dickens ever intended.
Read the full story..Review: Don McCullin, Tate Liverpool
Three defiant Scouse lads are the first people you meet on the way into this new iteration of Tate Britain’s Don McCullin 2019 retrospective. But it’s the faces from further away that will leave with you.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Our Lady of Blundellsands, Everyman, Liverpool
This would have been a better play with just two people in it.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Woman in Black, Liverpool Playhouse
There are occasions in theatres – I find they also occur sporadically in art galleries and are virtually guaranteed at the opera – when one wonders whether the failing is mine.
Read the full story..Festive Theatre Review: Miracle on 34th Street, Playhouse, Liverpool
Miracle on 34th Street was always going to be a commercial banker for the Liverpool Playhouse.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Peter Pan, Liverpool Empire
Playing a straight role in panto can be a thankless task, and the programme cover and posters for this year’s festive offering from the Liverpool Empire make it clear where the production’s priorities lie.
Read the full story..Review: The Lanterns at Chester Zoo
If Christmas really is all about the children, then there can’t be any quibbles about this year’s iteration of The Lanterns at Chester Zoo.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Nutcracker, Liverpool Empire
Theatre Review: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Playhouse, Liverpool
Playwright Rona Munro tells us in her forward to the programme for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that she has a “visceral aversion” to analyses of a writer’s work that use their biography “to interpret the stories they told”.
Read the full story..Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella, Palace Theatre, Manchester
It takes a particular kind of grace to be captivating while performing the role of a spiteful drunk.
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