Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
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Liam O'Dell is a freelance journalist specialising in deafness, disability and social media. Alongside writing, Liam produces content for his own YouTube channel and is a public speaker, having moderated panels at Summer in the City, the Almeida Theatre's Shifting Tides festival and the UK Asexuality Conference. Check out his posts now.
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
2d ago
The UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom will now require broadcasters to provide “timely information” in “unforeseen circumstances” where planned access services such as subtitles and audio description are unavailable, in an update which comes three years after a subtitles outage at Channel 4. The channel was found in breach of its licence conditions in June 2022 ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
4d ago
There’s no interval in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ sluggish and meandering two-hour play The Comeuppance – which has its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre – though it seems helpful to compartmentalise the play into the standard three act structure to illustrate exactly where and how this tale about a group of old school friends prepping for ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
4d ago
The UK Government has refused to outline its reasoning for promoting Mims Davies to the role of Minister for Disabled People, months after the UK Government was criticised for scrapping the dedicated ministerial role and demoting it to a Parliamentary Under Secretary position. Despite stating his administration was one of “change” at party conference in ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
6d ago
Close to four hours of Shakespeare will likely be a challenging premise for many theatregoers who wouldn’t consider themselves hardcore fans of the bard’s work – even more so when we’re talking about two of his plays (both parts of Henry IV) being rolled into one by director of The Doctor and Mary Stewart, Robert ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
Dirty Hare’s Gunter is one of those imaginative shows which explores the art of theatre in all its forms, to the fullest possible extent. A sellout Summerhall hit from last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this 70-minute play combines interpretative dance, songs, projections, illusions, props and more to tell the fascinating story of Anne Gunter, a ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
Anne and Emily Brontë bear the brunt of foul-mouthed, opportunistic big sister Charlotte (Upstart Crow and Killing Eve’s Gemma Whelan) in Sarah Gordon’s hyper, camp but ultimately confusing production about the literary siblings bustling for recognition in a patriarchy. Underdog is clever and very funny – indeed it knows it is – but often gets ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
How many characters are too many characters for a single actor to play in a single production? In Life with Oscar, Nicholas Cohen seeks to surpass Andrew Scott’s eight characters (Vanya) and Sarah Snook’s 26 (The Picture of Dorian Gray) to play 29 roles in this tedious and anticlimactic show about a filmmaker’s journey to ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
Content warning: This review, like the production itself, references cancer and grief. Please do not read this article if you find these subject matters triggering or distressing. Theatre lovers grieving the loss of the beloved VAULT Festival will find bittersweet pleasure in this wacky and charming production from its final incarnation in 2023. The cultural event’s ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
2w ago
How the bloody hell can Ivo van Hove go from his very best a la A Little Life, to his very worst in the form of Opening Night? Dry in plot, cluttered in its staging and musically incongruous in Rufus Wainwright’s jolty numbers, we can at least finally sympathise and connect with Sheridan Smith’s character ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1M ago
The British Deaf Association has called for the end of the “signwashing” of British Sign Language (BSL), at a Parliamentary event at the start of this year’s Sign Language Week. Defined by Chief Executive Rebecca Mansell as the “pushing to one side” of BSL and the notion that it is “inferior” to spoken English, the ..read more