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Reviewed for North West End
February 20 -24
Sunset Boulevard
Liverpool Empire
www.liverpooltheatres.com/empire.htm
On tour until April
3*
Some shows, you automatically assume you know everything about them, and so does everybody else; here, the lines about the movies getting smaller and being ready for a cose-up. It’s a surprise then to find neither musical numbers, nor story for that matter, seem familiar. Correction: the plot
April 30
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2018
http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/comps/ware18.pdf
The Play That Goes Wrong
January 29-February 3
Storyhouse
3*
Certainly does what it says on the can – when this production goes wrong, it really does go wrong. It is also extremely odd to review something about which you know nothing; the programme maintains the fiction, or maybe delusion, about a play called ‘Murder at Haversham Manor’, performed by an
A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer
January 26 – February 3
On tour until March 29
Liverpool PLayhouse
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/
4*
I particularly wanted to see this show because it’s Bryony Kimmings with Complicite – a killer combination. You think that’s bad? You ain’t seen, or heard, anything yet. The production is of