Typical, a film version of a powerfully poetic and painful 2019 monologue about institutional racism, is brilliant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFilm is the new theatre — this we know, but does the distance imposed by the change of medium increase or decrease the impact of the story? The latest example of this problematic switch fr…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:45PMThe latest example of this problematic switch from stage to screen is the strongly acted Shook, Samuel Bailey’s debut play, which won the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize and had a run at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMRead all about it! Well, maybe not. Maybe more like: live the news and then watch it streamed. Inspired by the radical theatre of the Federal Theatre Project in 1930s New Deal America, which…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:14AMYesterday I watched Skye Hallam’s excellent one-woman show, Heads or Tails, one of the headline acts at the new Living Record Festival. It’s a gently confessional monologue about the aft…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMTen prompts for writing about the year 2020: 1) “It started with a slight cough, a rather dry cough.” Explore the sense of a beginning; remember how you felt when the news of the pandemi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:01PMLast week I watched Sarah Grochala’s award-winning short play, S-27, now streaming from the website of the Finborough Theatre, where it had its 2009 premiere. It is inspired by the work o…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:33PMI watched the streamed version of December, written and directed by Alexander Knott, and performed in the Old Red Lion Theatre and pub.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMWith S-27, the Finborough once again punches well above its weight, making another compelling contribution to the brave new world of streamed theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMA couple of days ago I watched the live stream of Misfits, from the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. The show comprises four excellent fractured monologues, written by Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27AMThe promise of being “urgent, responsive and fast” may not always be achieved, but at its very best the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative is both pertinent and full o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMA Christmas Carol is a seasonal standard. In a normal year, there are a couple of versions to be enjoyed, usually led by the Old Vic in London, but this winter it feels like there’s an epi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:51PMTravis Alabanza’s play Overflow at the Bush Theatre is both tender in its empathy for the different kinds of trans experience and passionately angry about prejudice.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMOkay, COVID-19 really sucks. This play opened and closed on the same night, 4 November, as the second lockdown this year closed all entertainment venues in the country. Luckily, there had be…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:35PMClassical murder mysteries end with a neat solution — and with the arrest of the perpetrator. Postmodern murder mysteries play games with the genre, turning it upside down and inside out. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:27AMToday, I watched the first episode in the Tools for Change trilogy, digital reimaginings of three plays exploring racism, censorship, power and identity from the Theatre Uncut archive, in a …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:03AMPlaywright Philip Ridley has had a very productive lockdown. Despite the constraints of the pandemic he has been exceptionally creative. In March, when all theatres in Britain were closed, h…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39PMMisfits, from the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, comprises four excellent fractured monologues, written by Kenny Emson, Sadie Hasler, Guleraana Mir and Anne Odeke, which focus on Essex,
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThere’s plenty to enjoy in Little Wars’ jokes, and then, later on, the final harrowing monologues about the genocide are both powerful and deeply moving.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSuccess smells sweet. The Bridge Theatre’s pioneering season of one-person plays continues with sell-out performances of David Hare’s Beat the Devil and Fuel’s production of Inua Ella…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49PMOriginally commissioned as part of The Power Plays produced by Theatre Uncut in 2018, A Coin in Someone Else’s Pocket is a wonderfully thoughtful meditation on what it means to be a female…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWhen the history of British theatre’s response to COVID-19 comes to be written, the names of two men will feature prominently: Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr. The “two Nicks” were the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:14PMDo you know the Urdu word for story? No? Well, look it up. Okay, this might prove a bit tricky, so let me suggest an easier route: buy a ticket to participate in We Are Shadows: Brick Lane, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:48AMTheatre is just different organisms in close proximity. It’s a great image, and one of many that float gently to the surface in Ben Duke’s In a Nutshell, a monologue which explores with …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThis is a masterly revival of An Evening with an Immigrant, Inua Ellams’ 2016 autobiographical one-man show which is both poetic and engaging.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMAlthough I have visited Brick Lane a number of times over the years, much of We Are Shadows: Brick Lane this was refreshingly new to me and the adventure was a delightful experience.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMDuring the current pandemic, stories about isolation have a particular resonance. Feelings of claustrophobia, loneliness, and frustration slide off the stage and echo in our subconscious —…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:45PMSimon Stephens and Juliet Stevenson create a perfectly beautiful and haunting installation for our times in The Blindness at the Donmar Warehouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe strength of the response to the re-emergence of the Black Lives Matter campaign has encouraged some theatres to create provocative, new work. Often, the keynote is a personal feeling. On…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:25PMThe bright colours of the performance underline the surrealism of Scrounger’s quest for justice, and Athena Stevens, the first actor in a wheelchair nominated for an Offie, performs her st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMCan the act of dusting be a metaphor? This is the all-too-obvious question that jumps into the mind while watching Spring Cleaning, a very site-specific immersive theatre production that ta…
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