16 stories by "Liam Harrison"
(2/5 Stars) From Where I'm Standing gives a complex time-lapsed view of family relationships on the fringes of modern terrorism. In a Mumbai embassy, a bomb is detonated. The blast wave e…
The bard enters the battle of the bands in The Tragedy of Coriolanus, an international adaptation of Shakespeare's classic text with a unique musical accompaniment. Billed as “Heavy Me…
(3/5 Stars) Kettling, forward intelligence teams and giant woollen onesies, just some of the amusing and distressing topics in Hannah Nicklin's new one woman show, A Conversation With My Fat…
(2/5 Stars) Imagine for a moment if Les Misérables had violently let itself go. The revolutionaries became too fat to riot, the army too tired and hungry to shoot them. You either die a cla…
(3/5 Stars) Torture, execution and varied cooking instructions mingle together to make Trash Cuisine a demented delicacy well worth savouring. From the moment the first theatrical appetiser …
(2/5 Stars) Is it possible for a joke to become old instantaneously? How short can a gag’s theatrical half-life last? In this case study of The Breakup of Cause and Effect it appears t…
(4/5 Stars) Out on the dark expanse of the barren stage, a lone figure speaks of ghosts, gods and man-made myths in Brian Watkin's contemporary campfire tale, High Plains. Jake (Ben Newman) …
(2/5 Stars) Join us on a turbulent, intergalactic voyage into the fetid depths of obsessive fandom. Very recently, in a convention not nearly far enough away, two Whovians meet and strike…
(3/5 Stars) Many a bad production has tried to hammer its show into shape by beating it with acoustic instruments. All it generally achieves is a saccharine sweet headache and splinters in y…
(4/5 Stars) Imagine the most disastrously haphazard tech rehearsal of your entire run. Lights short circuit, technicians run amock and dancers teeter on the brink of mutiny. And to compound …
(3/5 Stars) One way to define the unhinged experience that is The Seer may be to describe the bizarre series of events that befall its ostracised narrator: he’s stabbed in the arse,…
(3/5 Stars) Marked with an owl stamp, as if we're admitted to a wildlife themed nightclub, I and a select group of audience members find ourselves being escorted to the surprisingly grimy ba…
(4/5 Stars) Pack your case full of limbs, handgun in its holster, bleach in your knapsack, and all aboard the NovemberUnderground! In the not too distant future, where a corpse is both a …
(1/5 Stars) Like the characters in this show, I feel as if I’ve been taken hostage and mentally brutalised by Beeston Rifles. And not in a good way. Seeking retribution for her fami…
(4/5 Stars) An enraptured audience watch agog as Dominic Allen twists history to hilarious and heartfelt effect. The Bridge That Tom Built follows the extraordinary life of Thomas Paine, …
On Behalf of Nature makes a valiant attempt to sing with all the voices of the mountains. However when approaching the peaks it stumbles, loses its footing and breaks every musical bone in i…
