Theatre Review: The Shawshank Redemption, Liverpool Playhouse
The Shawshank Redemption is a play about toxic masculinity. So far, so zeitgeist. But it is also a...
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‘the stage equivalent of a warm hug’ Little Women, Liverpool Playhouse
It is early in the season to be feeling Christmassy. Yet Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little...
Read MoreFestive Theatre Review: Miracle on 34th Street, Playhouse, Liverpool
Miracle on 34th Street was always going to be a commercial banker for the Liverpool Playhouse. Artistically though, for a theatre which made an exciting choice with its Christmas offering from physical comedy company...
Read MoreTheatre 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”. Of...
Read MoreTheatre 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. This show made me want to watch it, which has to be a good thing, although it also made me suspect I would...
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