Review: The Scouse Red Riding Hood, Royal Court, Liverpool
“Who the f*** comes up with this stuff?”, the man next to us in the stalls wondered audibly, in...
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Author: Fran Yeoman
Theatre Review: Cooped, Liverpool Playhouse
Cooped is something akin to the best bad am-dram theatre production you’ve ever seen. It is a farcical gothic romance, pitched as ‘Hitchcock’s Rebecca meets The Pink Panther’ and performed with the kind of knockabout silliness...
Read MoreReview: Lush Spa, Church Street, Liverpool
In the past, I was never an enormous fan of Lush. I have to hope that my younger brother doesn’t read this review; for a few teenage years, Lush gift sets were his go-to present for all female members but I always found the...
Read MoreTheatre Review: Chekhov’s First Play, Liverpool Playhouse
There are productions for which the business of rating by stars can feel reductive. This is one of them. Ostensibly a performance of Anton Chekhov’s first teenage piece of theatre, it is in fact a 75 minute exploration of...
Read MoreReview: Mark Thomas – Check Up: The NHS at 70, The Playhouse, Liverpool
I was worried about this one. Worried because the last time I saw Mark Thomas in the flesh, my university friends and I bumped into him somewhere along Whitehall during the million-strong crowd of the 2003 anti-Iraq invasion...
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