February 2018

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Reviewed for North West End

www.northwestend.co.uk

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

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April 30

Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2018

http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/comps/ware18.pdf

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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

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A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer, l-r Eva Alexander, Elexi Walker, Lara Veitch, Bryony Kimmings, Lottie Vallis, Gemma Storr. Photo by Mark Douet

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

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