Pantomimes and me don’t mix. I’m fundamentally a rather grumpy personality. If there’s no ironic fall-back position I feel a bit lost.
Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler My Part in his Downfall at the Playhouse
A little spot of audience interaction and some inspired ad-libbing add to the general sense of mayhem, which seems appropriate given Milligan’s impression of the second world war as ‘a strange kind of chaos’.
The Best of Liverpool 2008
I’ve asked a few friends and colleagues to tell me what their best bits of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year were.
Rebuilding the Everyman
The Everyman has apparently been declared “unfit for purpose” and faces a “long lingering death” unless it is demolished, according to Arts Council England, because of its poor rehearsal space and bars.