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
20h ago
★★★★★ Chris Bush’s beautiful musical about three generations connected by a single flat on a Sheffield housing estate is hearty and moving, reflected in vivid lighting from Mark Henderson, energetic choreography from Lynne Page and surging music from Pulp’s Richard Hawley. With Robert Hastie’s direction, Bush’s script manages to make life’s unpredictable emotions seem like ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
20h ago
★★ The Young Vic’s staging of Zinnie Harris’ Further Than the Furthest Thing successfully captures what life is probably like on a remote island by being exhaustingly slow and uneventful. The return of a young man to the island from the outside world should open up an interesting plot around a cultural divide between a ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
5d ago
We realise the central character wants to be saved a whole lot later than he does in Black Superhero. The debut play by The Normal Heart actor Danny Lee Wynter looks to be a candid tale of one man’s longing for dependency – and it is superlative with Daniel Evans’ direction and staging – but ..read more
‘Con-version’ at VAULT Festival review – Queer conversion therapy experience marred by magic realism
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
Please note: This review – like the production itself – discusses the topics of homophobia and queer conversion therapy. Please take care when reading and click off this article if these subjects are triggering to you. ★★★ It’s hard to showcase the cruel reality of queer conversion therapy when your story focusses far too much ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
★★★★★ Science and faith collide in this intense and immediate play in which anything not grounded in a provable reality is outlawed. The dystopian interrogation drama from Bag of Beard Theatre will draw comparisons to the likes of 1984 and A Clockwork Orange – eagerly embraced and referenced in the script and Charles Flint’s gritty ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
★ Two neurodivergent siblings argue over OCD and autism in this rough, repetitive and redundant debut. While its representation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is refreshing in rooting it in a lack of rationality, the implication that OCD and autism are almost identical is less heartwarming in the sense of two people sharing a similar experience ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
★★★★ What happens when life gives you melons instead of lemons? In Becks Turner’s surreal and sassy gameshow, this question is answered in an elaborate and entertaining fashion, and forms the basis for an entire play taking aim at Tory education policies harming neurodivergent minds and stifling creativity. Amongst many other controversies, current Levelling Up ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w ago
★★★★★ A sweet and different kind of love story takes to the stage in That’s Ace, as alternative, neurodivergent-coded and Doctor Who fanatic Ace (the name is more than coincidental) must navigate a space she hates while waiting to hang out with a girl she loves – she thinks. Love is a difficult thing, and ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
2w ago
★★★★ Five years after its work-in-progress run, Sylvia makes a riveting return to the Old Vic as a thrilling full production. Telling the story of the lesser-known suffragette from the Pankhurst family (most people will be more familiar with her mother Emmeline, played by the iconic Beverley Knight), the musical is packed with smooth choreography ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
2w ago
Please note: This review – like the production itself – discusses the topics of masculinity, homophobia and sexual assault. Please take care when reading and click off this article if these subjects are triggering to you. ★★★★ Concept Theatre bring another hard-hitting box of tricks to the stage in Sons, their latest production after the vital ..read more