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Festive Theatre Review: Miracle on 34th Street, Playhouse, Liverpool
Miracle on 34th Street was always going to be a commercial banker for the Liverpool Playhouse.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Playhouse, Liverpool
Playwright Rona Munro tells us in her forward to the programme for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that she has a “visceral aversion” to analyses of a writer’s work that use their biography “to interpret the stories they told”.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Little Miss Sunshine, Playhouse, Liverpool
Full disclosure: I have not in fact seen the Oscar-winning film on which Little Miss Sunshine the musical is based.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Cooped, Liverpool Playhouse
Cooped is something akin to the best bad am-dram theatre production you’ve ever seen.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Around the World in Eighty Days, Playhouse, Liverpool
It is only six months since Laura Eason’s re-telling of Phileas Fogg’s circumnavigation last docked in Liverpool, and its rapid return is testament to both the bums-on-seats appeal of Jules Verne’s classic and the wit of this production, which began life at Newcastle-Under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre back in 2013.
Read the full story..Review: Constellations, Liverpool Playhouse
Almost 20 years ago, Pulp released their career-defining album Different Class. Along with the Yanis Varoufakis-approved anthem Common People, it also featured a song called Something Changed. In the song, which is a delicate strum-a-long until some easy-listening strings send it soaring, St Jarvis of Intake ruminates on the temporal singularity around which a relationship was once conjured into existence.
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