Articles relating to: Liverpool Playhouse
Theatre 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.
Theatre Review: The Animals and Children Took to the Streets, Liverpool Playhouse
It is barely 70 minutes long and its constituent parts are a trio of women with white-painted faces, an unseen piano and some cartoons.
Theatre Review: Persuasion, Liverpool Playhouse
I think that my plus one said it best: “perfectly pleasant”.
Theatre Review: George’s Marvellous Medicine, Liverpool Playhouse
Ok that’s it. From now on, all children’s theatre productions need to feature giant humanoid chickens with a steampunk aesthetic and fabulous comic timing.
Review: The Wedding, Liverpool Playhouse
Three star reviews can be a cop out. I worked for one editor who unofficially banned them. They can mean fence-sitting; not-committing; bet-hedging.
Review: A Passage to India, Liverpool Playhouse
To whom do we owe our loyalty?
Review: Baskerville, Liverpool Playhouse
Every generation, it seems, has its own Sherlock Holmes.
Review: Golem, Liverpool Playhouse
Many people of a certain age will remember the suburban wonders of a living-room slideshow. It was cinema you could do yourself with the lights out, curtains pulled, and head-cut-off holiday portraits beamed against the woodchipped wall.
Review: Pygmalion, Liverpool Playhouse
Take some raw material. Manipulate it, reshape it. Then stand back and consider what you’ve made.
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.
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