Articles...
Oct 8 2007
THERE is a dramatic twist to this coming-of-age saga that actually comes at the beginning rather than as a denouement, yet in fact this ploy adds a piquancy to the largely dialogue-driven theme....
Oct 3 2007
BEAUTY and the Beast is a show for those who like a little bit of magic with their musicals. There are enough theatrical tricks in it to cheer the most jaded of theatregoers....
Sep 27 2007
LIFE in a cellar room in Victorian Liverpool could not have been much fun, a point certainly underlined in the new play Intemperance at the Liverpool Everyman....
Sep 26 2007
JIMMY McGOVERN should be called Jimmy P. McGovern – the initial P standing for Passion. Everything this writer touches is compelling once he casts his script-writing eyes over it....
Sep 24 2007
IF YOU can imagine the Isle of Anglesey wrenched from the rest of Britain by an earthquake, then floating off on a North Atlantic cruise – while the rest of the world is distracted by the Falklands conflict – then you are in good company....
Sep 18 2007
ORIGINALLY written for Tommy Steele, the musical Half a Sixpence is one of those jolly, cheerful shows which suited Steele’s button-bright personality to a tee....
Sep 17 2007
DRAMAS with surprise endings are always a bit dangerous....
Sep 17 2007
KING Cotton, Liverpool TV writer Jimmy McGovern’s first stage play for 20 years, received a standing ovation at its premiere at The Lowry, Salford....
Sep 12 2007
ACCORDING to one observer: “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums”. It was ever thus....
Sep 11 2007
BRENDAN O’CARROLL’S creation of feisty Mrs Brown was shocking audiences well before Catherine Tate’s more recent swearing TV gran....
