His falsetto range is legendary and the wealth of music to come from his partnerships with Bob Gaudio and his fellow band members The Four Seasons, have produced one of the strongest catalogues of musical hits in the music business. It’s even more amazing that at the tender age of 88 Frankie Valli is still touring the world and sharing that music with fans across the globe. It may have been a cold and wet evening in Liverpool last night, but inside the M&S Bank Arena, Frankie Valli set the place on fire. It may have been a modest set-up…
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Composers: Antonio Vivaldi and Hollie Harding Devisor: Nic Pendlebury Immersive theatre, where the audience becomes part of the play and may even interact with the cast, is now an established part of the genre. An interactive concert is, however, a new idea. The double bill A Change of Season opens with a hybrid performance as the Trinity Laban String Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Nic Pendlebury, Head of Strings, perform and, to an extent, interpret visually Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. It is apparent upon entering Manchester’s Stoller Hall this is not to be a conventional concert. It is staged,…
Writer: Lindzi Germain and Angela Simms Director: Cal McCrystal Swinging back like a wrecking ball into Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre this week is Liverpool-based comedy The Royal written by and starring Lindzi Germain and Angela Simms. The play is set in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital – a place that most people in and around the city will have either been a visitor or patient of and will have a story or two to tell about their experience! The hospital is waiting to be demolished as the new Royal is being built and this play centres around the last remaining…
In December 2014, director Sita Calvert-Ennals and I watched a newsreel of an 80-year-old South Korean man trying to select the most appropriate gifts to offer to his North Korean brother. He hadn’t seen him for 64 years. Up until a month before, he didn’t even know if he was dead or alive. We’d stumbled across coverage of the sixteenth state-organised Korean Divided Family Reunions, where relatives separated during the Korean War of 1950-53 can apply to the Red Cross in their respective countries, to meet their relatives across the DMZ. The reunions are temporary, time-limited, and strictly observed by…