Theatre Review: War of the Worlds, Liverpool Playhouse
The original 1897 version of War of the Worlds is often seen as a critique of Victorian...
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Theatre Review: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, Liverpool Playhouse
This could quite easily have been terrible. A musical adaptation of a young children’s picture book about great women in history, with characters such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Seacole serenading a schoolgirl in...
Read MoreTheatre Review: A Christmas Carol, Liverpool Playhouse
There were ghosts in this play alright, many more than Dickens ever intended. Past, present and future but also the many phantom productions that have succumbed in this COVID-19-ravaged festive season. At times it felt as if...
Read MoreTheatre 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. My evening watching The Woman in Black...
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‘unhinged genius’ Rocky Horror Show, Liverpool Playhouse
Reader, I am a Rocky Horror virgin no more. Nor am I, by any stretch, an expert member of the...
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