Author: Fran Yeoman
Theatre Review: Sweeney Todd, Everyman, Liverpool
“I’m alive at last,” Sweeney Todd declares towards the end of act one, as he abandons his plan for targeted revenge against the judge who wronged him in favour of a throat-slitting class war against the generality of “those above”.
Theatre Review: Around the World in Eighty Days, Playhouse, Liverpool
It is only six months since Laura Eason’s re-telling of Phileas Fogg’s circumnavigation last docked in Liverpool, and its rapid return is testament to both the bums-on-seats appeal of Jules Verne’s classic and the wit of this production, which began life at Newcastle-Under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre back in 2013.
Review: Mark Thomas – Check Up: The NHS at 70, The Playhouse, Liverpool
I was worried about this one.
“Good story, good rhymes, bit scary, great pictures.” Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler talk to Northern Soul
Axel Scheffler, one might argue, is getting desperate.
Theatre Review: Us Against Whatever, Everyman, Liverpool
If a British-Polish lesbian romance mixed with Hull City’s promotion to the Premier League and Brexit sounds like an unlikely recipe for a coherent piece of musical theatre, that’s because it is.
Review: The Oakfield, Chester Zoo
There are many things to be spied at Chester Zoo. Some are majestic – a lioness roaring, or a male orangutan lumbering around his enclosure – and others are merely predictable.
Theatre Review: Big Up! Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Five stars for a performance that was funnier, more engaging and more inventive than virtually any theatre production aimed at young children I’ve ever seen?
Theatre Review: A Christmas Carol, Playhouse, Liverpool
If Vic and Bob wrote a panto and had it produced by the League of Gentleman and performed by the cast of Big Train, it would probably look a bit like Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol.
Theatre Review: Stick Man, The Lowry, Salford
Roll up, families seeking a pre-schooler-friendly Christmas production without a cast full of X Factor semi-finalists and too many flashing lights.
Theatre Review: The Snow Queen, Everyman, Liverpool
It takes a brave panto producer to take a much-loved fairytale – the very same one, no less, that CBeebies used for their own televised Christmas stage show last year – and mess about with it quite as much as the Everyman has for this year’s festive rock ‘n’ roll offering.
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