REVIEW: Hot Water Comedy Club

Reading Time: 2 minutesLiverpool’s own Hot Water Comedy Club located on Hope Street in the artsy, bustling Georgian quarter was packed this Friday Evening.

Reading Time: 2 minutesLiverpool’s own Hot Water Comedy Club located on Hope Street in the artsy, bustling Georgian quarter was packed this Friday Evening.

Reading Time: 3 minutesDirected by Macadie Amoroso, the action of Rob Hayes’ A Butcher of Distinction unfolds in a dark and eerie pub basement.

Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at The Rose Theatre in Kingston until 12th November, don’t miss this deliciously witty, fast-paced new production of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which takes on a sizzling modern feel in the hands of director Denzel Westley-Sanderson.

Reading Time: 2 minutesOona Doherty’s Navy Blue explores the insignificance of dance, life and the whole world. From the offset, Navy Blue might seem like a bit of a bleak experience if the point is to comprehend the pointlessness of sitting in a theatre watching a dance show that expresses itself as pointless and irrelevant.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Regency comedy improvisation show, made famous at the Edinburgh Fringe is on tour! Every single show promises to deliver a brand new 'lost' Jane Austen play based only on audience suggestions.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1928. Lila is all alone in a hospital for the criminally insane. Without any support, she is forced to face her secrets and the darkness of her past that led to her imprisonment “Packed with playful poetry and vivid trauma,” says the description, though this one-woman show from Shea Donovan perhaps struggles with the latter claim.

Reading Time: 3 minutesJasmin Vardimon is an award-winning choreographer and her newest show is a reimagining of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A relatable and entertaining Scouse classic, bringing the class divisions of the late 20th century to light. Having studied Blood Brothers back in school, I was really looking forward to seeing it on the stage. Let me…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time when there are many reasons to feel frustrated, lost and despairing, there isn’t a much better remedy than South African Road Trip to provide, as its subtitle reveals, Good Hope.

Reading Time: 3 minutesKing Hamlin tells the story of a teenage boy with aspirations of doing well in school and going to university to become a software engineer, before life gets in the way and he gets dragged into the world of drug dealing and gangs. There is definitely a good play somewhere within that premise, unfortunately King Hamlin is not that play.