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June 5, 2022 in it's all about me...and mostly Reviews | No comments
April 26, Liverpool Playhouse
Reviewed for Writebase: https://writebase.co.uk/
8/10
A magical and meaningful production which draws out so many parallels with life today, 80 years on, there are nearly as many lines as those spoken by the excellent cast. In other words, so many lessons to be learned in this iconic tale of animals taking over. Near as damnit, the lunatics running the asylum, with their delusional ideas and grandiose so-called victories.
June 5, 2022 in it's all about me...and mostly Reviews | No comments
Fascinating Aîda
Floral Pavilion, New Brighton
February 1, reviewed for Writebase: https://writebase.co.uk/
4*
Who says women of a certain age are invisible? Three cheers for the ever glamorous, and indeed, downright sexy (not sure I’m permitted to say that, but damn sure they wouldn’t object) Fascinating Aîda, who not only make their presence felt but are so in your face you can see the whites of their eyes as the sweetest of harmonies deliver vitriol in the sharpest of points; a fabled, and fabulous, iron fist in a velvet glove. And you needn’t think the audience is full of, shall we say, women in their prime either because
December 5, 2021 in it's all about me...and mostly Reviews | No comments
October 19-23
War of the Worlds
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/the-war-of-the-worlds
Reviewed for North West End: www.northwestend.co.uk
4*
What a tangled web we weave, especially these days when the Internet ensures all kinds of information reach the parts that other sources can’t get to. Fake news can make people belligerent or else scare them out of their wits, just as it did with the broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
December 5, 2021 in it's all about me...and mostly Reviews | No comments
October 12-16
Dracula: The Untold Story
imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse
Adapted and directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/dracula-the-untold-story
Reviewed for North West End: www.northwestend.co.uk
3*
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and here we are on Route 66 (or should that be 666?), since that’s their year (read on…), and a young lady has just walked into a police station to confess to murder. But she says her name is Mina Harker…
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