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
3d ago
The Bush Theatre has confirmed it has “no plans” to stage another run of Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer, amid a Netflix adaptation of the stage show landing a ‘perfect’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and breaking into the streaming giant’s Global Top 10 chart. The seven-part series stars Gadd and Pride actor Jessica Gunning in a ..read more
‘The Cord’ review – Bijan Sheibani’s piercing paternal depression drama undermined by the improbable
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
3d ago
Till The Stars Come Down director Bijan Sheibani follows up on his solid 2019 debut play The Arrival by turning from the fraternal to the paternal. The Cord, about new father Ash (Irfan Shamji) suffering from postpartum depression, commendably represents the male experience of a condition often associated with women (even though up to one ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
6d ago
There’s nothing robotic about Richard Jones’ staging of Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 play, Machinal, even though its very name suggests as such. Instead, Chernobyl’s Rosie Sheehy gives her all as the jolty and on edge Helen whose formulaic life pushes her to kill her husband – a fictional story based on the real life case of ..read more
Liam O'Dell | Freelance Journalist and Campaigner
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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
1w 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
2w 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
2w 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
2w 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