Tag: Shropshire Young Reviewers
Interested in music, film, theatre, arts and festivals? Do you think you’d like to record or write a review for Voice? Then get in touch!
If you're aged 16 – 25 years and live in Shropshire then come along to one of our FREE weekly sessions where you get to learn from professionals, access events, training and opportunities and develop your own opinion pieces.
Weekly sessions are held on Thursdays (starting 11th April 2024) at Shrewsbury Colleges Group, English Bridge Campus, SY2 6AA. You don’t have to be a college student, or know about the local arts scene or how to review - just register your interest to attend, turn up at the college reception and meet like-minded people!
To find out more email [email protected]
This project is funded by the UK Government through the Vibrant Shropshire: a Cultural Compact Grant Scheme as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.
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21 February 2024
Celebrating 40 Years of Viv Kelly: A Musical Montage and Many a Memory…
Decades of dance, years of friendships, and four Bugsy Malones later, this week the Viv Kelly School of Dance and Theatre celebrated a fabulous forty years with hugs, hope and heartfelt emotion. Oh, and a spectacular line up of musical hits!
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1 February 2024
The Full Monty Review: A Euphoric Celebration of Humanity
Six unlikely comrades swap dead-end job centres, custodial battles and suicide for a red curtain, a sparkly police uniform and a blue silk thong…
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3 December 2023
Theatre Severn’s Jack and the Beanstalk: Fresh, Fun, and Highly Original
Dancing zombies, fluffy dogs, Backstreet Boys and Sigmund Freud, the Theatre Severn’s 12th pantomime with Evolution is here, and it’s gorgeous.
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25 November 2023
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - an ingenious adaptation of the revered fairy tale
Hope, bravery, kindness, and love flow bountifully from the enchanting tale of Narnia and its saviours, yet malevolence lurks beneath its fantastical façade in this phenomenal adaptation.
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10 November 2023
ACE Dance and Music: Unknown Realms - Review
The new double bill of contemporary dance from ACE Dance and Music is a dive into the most subconscious and spiritual aspects of being
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20 October 2023
Life Beyond Us Book Review
Popular science meets science fiction in this thought-provoking and diverse anthology of stories and essays from the European Astrobiology Institute
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12 August 2023
Immersion Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz: Boundless zeal and zest!
Let Immersion Theatre spirit you away to Munchkin Land in this opulent classic unfolding in the atmospheric grounds of the Shrewsbury Castle...
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4 August 2023
"Roaring into Existence as an Artist": an Interview with Musician and Composer Nicki Wells
"It’s like a diary entry....for me it’s like I’m letting someone in, and it can be very personal."
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20 July 2023
Rabbit Hole book review: Don’t judge a book by its cover?
Mark Billingham’s freshly published thriller is blighted by the remnants of covid and today’s politics, making it a modern and relatable read. But does it live up to its hype?
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11 July 2023
Nicki Wells Holy Smoke Track Review
A lead single to lead you on an experience
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25 June 2023
Curtain Call's The Wedding Singer: ‘A delight’
Curtain Call hits the stage with this iconic, sexy, laugh-out-loud love story. Robbie and Julia: destined to be together. There’s just the small matter of their fiancés… Chaos strikes the altar in this hilariously messy romcom.
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12 May 2023
Wish You Were Dead: Highly entertaining. I loved it.
Devoted yet officially “off-duty” detective Roy Grace played by Casualty star George Rainsford, dredges up deadly secrets and doggedly pursues justice but at what price, when the past crawls back to haunt him in this lively production.
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22 April 2023
Lady Moon album review
The eponymous debut album from Colorado folk musician Lady Moon (Eva Holbrook) wraps ethereal vocals and lyrical sensitivity around intricately finger-picked mandolin rhythms
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20 March 2023
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Mamma Mia for pensioners...?
Inspired by the award winning film, this inspiring tale of friendship, family and romance proves it’s never too late to take the leap and break free from the confines of a lifelong comfort zone.
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16 March 2023
Too Much World At Once: An underrated triumph of theatre
Surly, guarded Noble attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of youth and coming of age whilst trying to uphold his crumbling family in this achingly real yet charmingly surreal production.
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9 March 2023
The Rocky Horror Show: Unapologetically outlandish
Two cookie-cutter college kids are in for the craziest night EVER of dancing, aliens, sex and time warps after a chance encounter with the saucy corset-wearing, chainsaw-bearing Dr Frank-N-Furter…
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8 March 2023
Embracing the power of femininity
For years we have been told to suppress our femininity to pursue power, but isn't it time we changed the narrative and realised the true power femininity holds and how embracing that power can help us survive the future?
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1 March 2023
How To Kill Your Family: Witty, modern, and hilariously sarcastic
Follows fiction’s funniest serial killer as she seeks out salacious sex parties, plays with frog poison and seduces unwitting millionaires, all for one purpose. Murder.