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Jan 24 2008
IS IT possible to send a steam-powered spaceship to the moon? Dr Frederick Watt believes it can be done. But, then, in Here Be Monsters, he is living in the Edwardian age when writers like HG Wells imagined scientists could do all sorts....
Jan 22 2008
IT HAS been two years since the Liverpool theatre company Ullaloom, which specialises in frightening people, put the wind up local audiences....
Jan 21 2008
WITH their production of Tmesis, Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle created one of Liverpool’s most amazing theatre pieces....
Jan 14 2008
THE Japanese have been leading the way in scary, psychological movies like The Ring in which strange, unexplained things happen....
Jan 9 2008
IF LIVERPOOL performers Tim Lynskey and Matt Rutter wear expressions of horror these days it’s not surprising. The pair have been sitting through a whole series of contemporary Japanese fright films....
Dec 12 2007
LIKE many stories from children’s literature, Carlo Collodi’s original Pinocchio was pretty grim at times. Then the Walt Disney studio lightened it up no end in its 1940 animated cartoon....
Nov 23 2007
ANIMA, the new show at the Unity, is a voyage beyond the imagination. At least, most people’s imagination....
Nov 21 2007
PINOCCHIO is the story we all think we know, mainly thanks to Walt Disney’s 1940 animated feature. It will be getting a rather different treatment when it goes on stage at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre from December 4....
Oct 10 2007
“OUR aim,” says theatre director Clare Dunn, “is to tell stories in as new and as imaginative way as possible.”...
Sep 19 2007
ONE of Liverpool’s newest theatre companies will open its first tour at the city’s Unity Theatre next week....
