Catherine Jones

3 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones10 minutes ago8 min readThe Liverpool Biennial gets underway tomorrow with the theme of this year’s festival – BEDROCK – being described as “inspired by the physical and social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground us.”Biennial Curator Mary-Anne McQuay explains: “BEDROCK as a title for the festival extends from the physical sandstone foundations of the city to become a metaphor for its distinctive civic values, haunted by its colonial past.

3 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones1 minute ago3 min readThere have been plenty of stories on stage inspired by the Red side of Liverpool – so chapeau to the Royal Court for redressing the balance a little this summer. After recently examining the life of the near-legendary Bill Shankly in Red or Dead, the Court has turned its attention to a rather different hero from the Blue end of Stanley Park (or at least until recently when Bramley-Moore was completed).

3 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

It’s not often you apply for one job and come out with another. But that’s essentially what happened to actor Sam Lupton when he stepped into an audition room some 18 months or so ago. A fan of Fawlty Towers since childhood, the actor had gone for a role in the stage version on John Cleese and Connie Booth’s 1970s classic comedy – one which would have seen him playing half-a-dozen different characters during the show. “One of those had a Cockney accent,” he recalls.

3 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones11 minutes ago3 min readMidsummer arrives this month but even if it doesn’t bring traditional Puckish sprites and Rude Mechanicals, there’s still plenty of entertainment promised across Liverpool’s many theatres. The first week of June is also the final week for Hamilton which has been packing in musicals fans at the Liverpool Empire for the past month.

4 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones12 minutes ago2 min readThe 50s and early 60s were a golden era for what might be termed shlocky horror – a Technicolor, B-movie paradise of aliens from outer space, mutant creatures from below the waves and the undead doing unspeakable things. They revelled in lurid names like The Giant Claw, The Killer Shrews and, of course, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.