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Review: Pygmalion, Liverpool Playhouse
Take some raw material. Manipulate it, reshape it. Then stand back and consider what you’ve made.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..Review: Land of Our Fathers, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
These days, grime is a music genre, the sound of urban Britain. But back in 1979 it had no such cultural connotations.
Read the full story..Review: The Haunting of Hill House, Liverpool Playhouse
You think you know a place. After all, you’ve been there so many times before. You know its ins and outs, every inch of its physical dimensions.
Read the full story..Review: The Hudsucker Proxy at Liverpool Playhouse
Four years on from the Liverpool Playhouse launch of The Ladykillers – Graham Linehan’s delicious stage adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy – Liverpool theatre remains bewitched by the magical shadows of the 20th century’s greatest art form.
Read the full story..Review: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Liverpool Playhouse
This play is a fable. I know it’s a fable because the world’s biggest typewriter (heard but not seen) pounds the words ‘A FABLE’ onto the tea-chest-style wooden backdrop at the start of the story.
Read the full story..Review: Educating Rita, Liverpool Playhouse
In Frank’s vast oval cave filled with books and booze, Scouse Rita lets the air in. But you know, something’s changed about our Rita, she knows what she wants more than before. She’s more in control.
Read the full story..Willy Russell: “writers have to be mavericks”
In an exclusive interview, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb chats to playwright, musician and novelist Willy Russell.
Read the full story..The Kite Runner soars again in Liverpool
A kite doesn’t come alive until it’s licked by the wind. Only then does it make a dash for freedom, bursting towards the sky with an energy that seems to come from within.
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