Blasts from the Furnace
Reviews, features and hot air by Damon Fairclough, a writer based in Liverpool via a long lost Sheffield of the soul.
Review: Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Little Machine, Liverpool Playhouse
It’s a long time since I’ve seen anyone wearing a snake belt, but when the poet Roger McGough takes to the Liverpool Playhouse stage wearing just such an accessory, it turns out to be merely the first disarming sensory flashback of my night.
Review: The Star, Liverpool Playhouse
It’s amazing what a difference two and a half hours can make.
Review: Aladdin, Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
It’s not often that I feel like a High Court judge, but as I peruse the Aladdin cast list at Liverpool’s cosy Epstein Theatre, I experience the same sense of disconnection from popular culture that occasionally afflicts m’learned friends.
Constellations: Northern Soul explores the new displays at Tate Liverpool
As we journey around our digital world, we are well used to following links and making connections between subjects that we might not otherwise have explored. For those of us who are fatally inquisitive, even if just as a means to procrastinate, this endless hop, skip and jump from subject to subject has its dangers.
Did you learn to dream in the morning? A tribute to Liverpool Everyman’s Alan Dossor
It’s an afternoon of images. It’s an afternoon of love.
Yves Klein at Tate Liverpool: we talk to curator Darren Pih
It seems obvious to me now that Yves Klein‘s Leap into the Void was a fake.
Back to the Future: Sheffield’s Hole in the Road
I feel as though I’m about to die. Not in a horrific, life flashing before my eyes kind of way, but in a dreamlike, out-of-body experience. Except, if I really was about to die, I would hope that a failed 1960s underpass might not be the last thing on which I rested my earthly gaze.
Review: Made in Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
We’ve all heard it said that Britain doesn’t make things any more. We’re a service economy apparently, although I’ve never been quite certain what that entails. Does it mean we’re now merely the kind of country that waits at traffic lights to wipe the world’s windscreens, then hustles for a few coins in return?
Review: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Everyone knows that 1966 was a great year. England won the World Cup, the phrase “swinging London” was used for the first time and, over in Italy, the events that led to Shakespeare writing The Two Gentlemen of Verona were being played out.
Freerange Comedy Festival at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
Comedy fans who can’t make Harry and Meghan’s big day at Windsor Castle can experience a ‘Royal Wedding’ with a difference in Kendal this May at Freerange Comedy Festival, hosted by Brewery Arts Centre.
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